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Re: Julian's Book
Jul 02, 2003, 21:29
Here's some extracts as a taster: I think you'll like it.

"In North Yorkshire between the small cathedral city of Ripon and the town of Northallerton stands a great plateau of sacred land oriented north-west to south-east between the rivers Ure and Swale....This is the Land of the Great Goddess Ur, and it is to this goddess that both rivers were originally dedicated. The most pleasing monumentson the "Ur-Swirl" Plateau are the legendary Devil's Arrows, an alignment of three of the largest standing stones in Britain, and a great line of four great henges, all of which stood around a hundred yards in diameter."

"In the beginning of all things was the Universe and all things were of the Universe. For Stone Age humanity, the Great Goddess was the Universe and she made the Universe happen. But her very fiurst name was much smpler than Universe - her name was Ur. She appears to have been the Originator, or Mother, of all Goddesses we have so far surveyed, and, even today, the Great Goddess Ur is still so central to Indo-European language that the whole of western culture would fall without her."

"As Ur crossed into Europe, or Ur-opa, she became known by early Scandinavian tribes as Urd or Urtha, from which we derive the English "earth". The most ancient Ur tribes of all were, of course, the Irish or Erse. The latter name comes from the Goddess Eriu, a later aspect of Ur, who formed a Triple Goddess with Banba and Fotla. Their mythical love of peace eventually saw the Irish, or Erse, driven into the far west of Europe by the later warlike Bronze Age tribes."
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