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Legendary home to a branch of the Druids called the Pheryllt, who worked as metallurgists and alchemists. Also known as “The City of Higher Powers,” or the “Ambrosial City”, its rumored location is Snowdonia and is said to be the original placename of Dinas Emrys .
- Atlantis
- Avalon
- Arcadia
- El Dorado
- Lemuria
- Shambala/Shangri-La
- Thule
Unlike many stories whose origins have been lost to the historical record, we know exactly when and who invented the story of Atlantis. The story was first told by Plato around 330 BCE, in two of his dialogues “Timaeus” and “Critias.” It’s been established that there was no record of Atlantis before these texts and that Plato created this place as ...
Glastonbury, a town in England well known for its neo-pagan beliefs and local Arthurian legends, was once thought of the location for the legendary, idyllic and lost paradise of Avalon. The first mention of Avalon was in 1136 through Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. According to Arthurian legend, the island was ruled by Morgan le F...
A couple of hundred years before Plato’s time, the Ancient Greeks imagined a place called Arcadia. This early-vision utopia is also the name of a region in modern-day Greece. In ancient mythology, Arcadia was a pastoral back-to-nature place. The wilderness housed Pan, a woodlands God who resided with his nymphs and satyrs as his guards of a never-e...
Conquistadors riding through 16th-century South America scoured the land for a mythical city of gold. El Dorado started out as a story about a king named “The Gilded One.” He was said to be a native king who powdered his body with gold and tossed ornate jewels into a lake as part of his coronation. These stories eventually would morph into a tale o...
This hidden land was told through stories many ages before Atlantis. There are many origins to Lemuria, some occult writings, pseudo-histories and even scientific musings of a lost continent as well. Many texts from the east talk about a land called ‘Ra-Mu.’ In some sacred Tibetan texts, this land is also known as Muri or Lemuria. Madame Blavatsky,...
Shambhala is a Sanskrit word that means “place of peace.” This is an ancient mythical paradise that predates Tibetan Buddhism. The name was first seen in the scriptures of Zhang Zhung in western Tibet. According to the legend, it’s a kind of heaven where only the purest can live in a place bountiful with love and wisdom. There is no old age or suff...
A place of intrigue for many explorers, poets, and even Nazi occultists, Thule was a territory that was said to be located in the frozen north near the Arctic. The tale dates back to 4th century BCE when a Greek explorer named Pytheas claimed to have traveled to an icy island north of Scotland. Many of Pytheas’ fellow explorers doubted the validity...
May 5, 2021 · While Plato told Greeks of the superior lost city of Atlantis, medieval farmers thought up places where gourmet cheese rains from the sky and naps make you money. These better worlds are the stuff of communal daydreams, gathered here to document the paradises of your fantasies.
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- Caves of Hercules. Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends. 35.7599, -5.9392. Added by bctermeulen.
- Rathcroghan. This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins. 53.7789, -8.2536. Added by curleydaniel.
- Yanartaş. Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years. 36.4314, 30.4561. Added by kurtmehmet93.
- Plutonian Cave of Eleusis. According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld. 38.0424, 23.5395.
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Nov 9, 2018 · Legendary Place: Created by Calvin Wong. With Gunnar Sizemore, Stephanie Hsu, Feodor Chin, Paul Rugg.
Nov 9, 2018 · Legendary Place is a Chinese restaurant with a perfect delivery record. Can Arnold and Mel uphold their dad’s legend before an evil inspector shuts it down? ...more.
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