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Glastonbury - Ynnis Witryn - Crystal Isle

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  Posted by AlasdairJamesReid (U1942960) on Monday, 29th August 2005

  I have been recently reading a book on the Great Pyramid called The Giza Powerplant, and if I am to beleive that the ancients had such knowledge and ability that they could construct a machine of such size, then it would be reasonable to assume that the world would have been an international scientific community, this would then suggest that such wonderous buildings may have been existent in other countries including Britain.
  
  Recently in a doctors waiting room I was browsing through a book on Celtic Art called the Celtic Art Source Book and I noticed a name given for Glastonbury :-
  
  Ynnis Witryn
  
  translated as - Crystal Isle.
  
  On running this phrase around my head I decided that a Crystal Island could also be translated as an Island of Rock in the landscape.
  
  If one takes this route then surely the great pyramid of Giza could also be called a Crystal Isle.
  
  
  If this is the case, then it would take a very large quantity of matter, soil, or even volcanic ash to submerge such an edifice.
  
  If we reffer to the Bible we can read about the Great Flood. If You were to submerge the majority of the worlds landmass for a significant duration then a large amount of sediment would be deposited over the land. This would quite easily bury such structures as a Great Pyramid or a Crystal Isle.
  
  I have only recently pondered this theory and I thought a message board would be the best way of getting feedback on this idea.
  
  I hope this theory has been reasonable and would be happy to hear other peoples ideas on the subject.
  
  Alasdair

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  Posted by Richie (U1238064) on Wednesday, 31st August 2005

  I have been recently reading a book on the Great Pyramid called The Giza Powerplant, and if I am to beleive that the ancients had such knowledge and ability that they could construct a machine of such size, then it would be reasonable to assume that the world would have been an international scientific community, this would then suggest that such wonderous buildings may have been existent in other countries including Britain.
  
  Recently in a doctors waiting room I was browsing through a book on Celtic Art called the Celtic Art Source Book and I noticed a name given for Glastonbury :-
  
  Ynnis Witryn
  
  translated as - Crystal Isle.
  
  On running this phrase around my head I decided that a Crystal Island could also be translated as an Island of Rock in the landscape.
  
  If one takes this route then surely the great pyramid of Giza could also be called a Crystal Isle.
  
  
  If this is the case, then it would take a very large quantity of matter, soil, or even volcanic ash to submerge such an edifice.
  
  If we reffer to the Bible we can read about the Great Flood. If You were to submerge the majority of the worlds landmass for a significant duration then a large amount of sediment would be deposited over the land. This would quite easily bury such structures as a Great Pyramid or a Crystal Isle.
  
  I have only recently pondered this theory and I thought a message board would be the best way of getting feedback on this idea.
  
  I hope this theory has been reasonable and would be happy to hear other peoples ideas on the subject.
  
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  Its Ynys Wydrin (Glass Island) not Crystal Island.
  
  Although an alternative name is also Caer Wydyr (Fortress of Glass)

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  Posted by jackie005 (U2104097) on Thursday, 22nd September 2005

  Hi,
  
  I live just a few miles from Glastonbury, the whole of the area is nearly interesting.
  In ages past, during the winter months Glastonbury always flooded around the bottom of the Tor and surrounding low lands and was therefore known as the Isle of Glastonbury.
  Of course in the hard frost the Isle froze hence the Crystal Isle..In the summer the Isle of Apples. Summer Isle etc etc.
  Until a couple of years ago the bottom of Burrowbridge Tor always flooded and that too locally was know as the Isle.
  Probaly a bit simplistic but then people living in and around Glastonbury are influenced by crystals so may be something in what you say.. Worth a follow up.. Jackie.

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  Posted by TonyG (U1830405) on Saturday, 24th September 2005

  I think it is a little extreme to assert that the Great Flood actually covered the whole earth. The Bible story is based on older Mesopotamian stories. The Epic of Gilgamesh contains a strikingly similar tale.
  
  While a great flood may have covered the whole of the world known to the ancestors of the Sumerians, that is not the same thing, as their known world probably extended only a few hundred square miles.
  
  There is a theory which was on TV a couple of years back that the origins of the Flood myth may go back to the forming of the Black Sea. (Sorry, getting abit off topic here).

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  Posted by Richie (U1238064) on Saturday, 24th September 2005

  <QUOTE' USER='TonyG' USERID='1830405'>I think it is a little extreme to assert that the Great Flood actually covered the whole earth. The Bible story is based on older Mesopotamian stories. The Epic of Gilgamesh contains a strikingly similar tale. <BR /><BR />While a great flood may have covered the whole of the world known to the ancestors of the Sumerians, that is not the same thing, as their known world probably extended only a few hundred square miles.<BR /><BR />There is a theory which was on TV a couple of years back that the origins of the Flood myth may go back to the forming of the Black Sea. (Sorry, getting abit off topic here).</QUOTE><BR /><BR />I have heard something similar.<BR /><BR />As the levels of the Med rose, the Dardenelles were a waterfall that gradually got more and more fierce till the level rose enough that the fresh water lake that was the black sea was flooded by the med

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  Posted by TonyG (U1830405) on Saturday, 24th September 2005

  I have heard something similar.
  
  As the levels of the Med rose, the Dardenelles were a waterfall that gradually got more and more fierce till the level rose enough that the fresh water lake that was the black sea was flooded by the medΒ 
  
  That's the one. If the hypothesis is correct, it would have been the greatest flood in history. One can speculate that some of the people fleeing would have headed south - to Mesopotamia, where the earliest recorded stories are found.

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  Posted by Richie (U1238064) on Saturday, 24th September 2005

  funnily enough I am reading a novel about Atlantis at the moment which as its premise has Atlantis as a citidel on the pre-flood Black Sea coast which was then destroyed by "posieden" by flood
  
  Its an interesting scenario even if we ignore the fiction of adding atlantis to the mix but it could help explain the flood myths which exist in so many of the cultures of the eastern mederterainian

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  Posted by GrumpyGeegee (U2843410) on Thursday, 29th December 2005

  I have not seen the name "caer wydr" for Glastonbury before. Where did this come from?

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  Posted by Artorious (U1941655) on Thursday, 29th December 2005

  Hi all
  
  Glastonbury certainly is a magical place. I have visited it a couple of times during my "spiritual" phase a good many years ago. On one occasion after having walked round it and up to it a black hound approached us(me and my girlfriend) and seemed to want us to follow it. So we decided as we were leaving the hill anyway we would follow it. So it led us down the normal path to one of the exits of the grounds.
  
  Just as we came to the exit path a man all dressed in pure white came towards us. Not only were his clothes white, but his hair and beard as well. Before I saw him I heard the dog barking, and when I did see the man it certainly gave me a quick scare. The man in white looked at us and we looked at him and I said to the Dog, "it's okay, it's only a man" . I presume lookin back at the incident that I was meant to give him this message in some strange way. Anyway, he walked past us and up the hill. I looked back just to make sure he wasnt a ghost, he was still there walking onwards pondering something.
  
  The hound decided to keep going so we followed him out of the exit into the street, but as my car was just nearby I decided it was too risky to follow some dog to who knows where and so bid it goodbye and drove off.
  
  Always have wondered though where it would have led.
  
  

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