Some images from Katharine Maltwood’s Collection, University of Victoria, BC.
(with permission)
Katharine Maltwood created many artistic variations of the landscape zodiac in Somerset, I have posted a few here..You can see some of these at University of Victoria.B.C.
The Glastonbury Zodiac overhead pic by Donald Allen.
A poetic story around The Glastonbury Zodiac by Gail Cornwell.
Thank you, Google Earth.
Navigation stories
Wild outrageous tales
Lions and sea monsters
Cetus the whale
Aries the Golden fleece
Found by Cancers ancient ship
The soul incarnates
From the Dove
Through the portal of a secret month
The heart of the Lion
The eye of the Bull
Around the zodiac with irresistible pull
Through the twins man initiates
And meditates his fate
At earth rise and earth set
The beauty of the sun
Meet the gaze of the Virgin
And then it is on to winter
And Scorpios sting
Or an eagles wing
Sagittarius as knower
Points his bow
To the morning after
Capricornus waves his tail
His sturdy front feet climb up the Tor
The Phoenix burns a new path of light
All of these play day and night
The ordered precession of the stars
Each one has its own hours
Onto Pisces astral grid
The eye of a fish
A pyramid..
The New Jerusalem
Drawn by the minds eye
In the land
The angle of the Sun
The soft light of the moon
The shadow from the obelisk
Lights a secret room..
This place is both womb and tomb
The mighty virgin protective around
The child she bore
Mother and Child in the ground
The correct numbers and order abound
By all this light and sound
The jewel in the crown
Yet to be found..
The Adamic Man lies in state
The vessel Temple venerate
The great ship for the ferryman
Souls to ferry through the universe
Fool or the hanged man
So the light of Knowers Ark
The Pearl waits in the dark
For those with eyes to see
And ears to hear
All will be beckoned here
Sea Kings lye here
The sky in the ground
Fit for adventure
Befitting their birth
Bring heavens stars to earth
For here the Sun and the Moon give berth
A metaphor for Mother Earth
And Father Sky
The Son of the Sun
Becomes the one
All around him revolve
And from the light of his ancestors
The planets and the stars
To become the King
And wear the universe
As a mantle or a cloak
Where ever a life
Predicted by the stars
As above, So below
was the coat for our hero
And so the crown upon his head
To better pick up
What the cosmos said
Then to re enact each day
The path of the Sun to show the way..
Once upon an age
There lived a very ancient sage
Some thought he was a king
He wore a very ancient ring
His soul travelled
The far reaches of Earth
The stars and the planets
Still speak of his birth
He was timeless ageless
He carried the bloodline
And the knowledge of the ages
Through Egypt from Atlantis
(All the land is ice)
The old Monk sits on the Tor
Remembering the times before
Who is this Knower?
He stands at the edge of the abyss
And rides the Earth
As a long ship through space
He lives the stories of the stars
Upon a mighty ship
Came to ground
And here he stands
Alone and ship wrecked on the land
But he is not alone
For there are giants in the Earth
Not a ring for a finger
Nor a crown for a head
But a circlet to measure
The seasons instead
A circle of giants
A ring for a King
His father had told him
Of such a thing
Born from the ring
Lion King’s from Leo’s Regulus
Dragons from Draco’s light
Regal as their name
For a Lion heart is born not made
From a conjunction of the stars
A circle of the Zodiac
All the animals
Around the Ark..
To show the way
For down the path shone
The sword in the stone
By the light of the universe
A new king is born
A sword of the Sun
The sword of the King
The cave as the man
In stone he lies
Until touched again..