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St. Michael:
(Mi-Ka-El, San Miguel).
The Archangels Gabriel, Uriel,
Raphael, and Mikael were said to be endowed with a portion of Gods
power.
The pan-European myth of St. Michael originates from
the time of the pagan conversion to christianity...The association
with pre-christian relics and monuments suggests that before this
time, the character of 'St. Michael' existed in a different form, and
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Who was St. Michael..?
It is said in the Bible that
the name Michael (Mi-ka-el), originated when Lucifer (the fallen angel),
compared himself with God, another angel stood before him and shouted
"Who is like God?", which in Hebrew translates as 'Mi-ka-el',
after which he became known as Michael.
In the 'Apocalypse' by
the apostle John, it was written that a dragon with seven crowned
heads and horns, and a tail that swept aside the stars, threatened the
virgin Mary and her newly born child. St. Michael and his angels fought
the serpent from Satan and destroyed it. (2)
In France, it is said that St. Michael fought the devil (Satan,
Lucifer) on
Mont Dol in Brittany - which is part
of an alignment with Mont St. Michel and d'Avranches.
In England, tradition places the battle on Dragon Hill...
St. Michael is said to have appeared to a 13 year old
'Joan of Arc' in 1419. (1)
The spring festival of St. Michael
is on the 8th May.
Mercury, 'The messenger of
the Gods', is sometimes identified with St. Michael. (2)
Apep, the
Seven-Headed Dragon of Egypt has been identified with Tiamat, the Great
Dragon of Sumeria, slain by Marduk. This primordial goddess is the
prototype of the biblical monster Leviathan. It is little known that in
the Book of Revelation this same Dragon makes an anonymous guest
appearance. Nowhere in biblical literature, apart from Revelation where
the Dragon is not named, is Leviathan described as seven-headed.
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Mont St. Michael, France.
Mont. St. Michel, Brittany/Normandy Border -
Mont St. Michel is an island granite outcrop, which was known as Mont
Tombe until the first Monastic settlement in 708 AD, built following
the appearance of St. Michael to the bishop of d'Avranches.
The
main church at Mont. St. Michel
is orientated at 26° north of true east (The same as at
Notre Dame). This orientation can be extended in
both directions to form an alignment with Mont Dol to the south-west, and d'Avranches to the north-east.
Mont Dol is the place where
St. Michel is said to have fought Lucifer.
On the 8th of May (the
spring festival of St. Michel), the sun rises over d'Avranches towards
Mont St. Michel, then Dol-de-Breton.
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The Tumulus of St. Michel,
Carnac, France.
One of the seven great
Tumulii of Carnac. (known as Man é
Lud, Ker Lud,
Er Grah,,
Mené Er Hroeuk, Tumiac, Le Moustier,
and the
Tumulus of St. Michel).
 In
the centre of the tumuli is a stone box, 6ft wide, by 8ft deep, by 3ft
high. The floor of the box was lined with a stone pavement, upon which
were placed 11 polished axes of Jadeite and 28 polished axes of fibrolite.
Included also were pendants and necklaces of jasper and turquoise, all
covered with ash and scorched human bones. The chamber was completely
sealed with a capstone and surrounded with 15 small 'kist's' containing ox
bones.
This was then built over with a 7m high,
100m long mound, which was orientated east-west. Charcoal from the mound
was Radio-carbon dated to 6,850 BC.(3)
The mound was later greatly
built over to create the current edifice which stands at over 60m wide and
125m long. Up until the 19th century, the summer solstice was celebrated
in Carnac by the lighting of
a bonfire on its summit. (3)
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The
St. Michael's ley-line.
 This
is probably the most famous ley-line in the world. It runs
across England from the tip of Cornwall passing
Glastonbury Tor (St.
Michaels church), and Silbury Hill before continuing onwards to the east
coast of England. It passes through numerous significant sites either
named after St. Michael or St. George, both dragon slaying saints. The
line follows the path of the sun on the mid-summer solstice.
The St. Michael's ley-line forms the hypotenuse of a
right angled triangle of enormous proportions which is defined by the
three most sacred sites in England (see right).
The St. Michaels ley has been called a
'corridor of incidence' rather than a 'ley-line' as the locations along
the alignment are not exactly aligned. Hamish Miller suggested that the
line was actually two lines, one entwining the other, he called the second
line the St. Mary's line due to the number of sites dedicated to her.
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The European St. Michaels
Ley.
An alignment
is said to extend (on a Mercatorial map), from Mont Carmel in Israel through Delos
(dedicated to Apollo), Delphi, Corfu (Island of Artemis, sister of
Apollo), Le Monte Gargano in Italy (primary European sanctuary of the
Archangel, and place of several apparitions), La Sacra di San Michele in Piemont (Benedictine monastery at
1000m), Le Mont St. Michel of Normandie, Saint Mickael's mount, (a peaked
island surmounted by a church off the coast of Cornwall), and Skellig
Michael, an island to the south-east of Ireland. The angle of axis is
orientated SE-NW corresponding to the zodiacal axis of virgo-pisces (2).
(Note - This
alignment remains unconfirmed: More to follow soon)
The
archangel often appeared in Italy, in Rome near the castle which still
bears the name 'Holy angel' and at Monte Gargano, a rocky peninsula on the
Adriatic sea. (2)
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Dragão de San Miguel,
Portugal.
The St. Michael theme is also found
in Portugal. The spectacularly located 'Anta do Tapadão' as well as
having a superb 360 view, is located right beside a natural rock
formation which has the clear appearance of a Dragon's head (right).
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about the Anta do Tapodão)
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