These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot
Showing posts with label world. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Sadness of Geography






















"Do you understand the sadness of geography?"

—Michael Ondaatje
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Lands, a List (Mythological and Otherwise)

  • Avalon
  • Buyan, an island with the ability to appear and disappear in Russian mythology
  • Shambhala
  • Shangri-La, a fictitious valley in Tibet the idea of which may have been inspired by the myth of Shambhala
  • Quivira and Cíbola, also known as the Seven Cities of Gold. These were suspected somewhere in America by the conquistadors.
  • El Dorado, mythic city of gold.
  • Atlantis
  • Lemuria (continent)
  • Mu (lost continent)
  • Ys; a mythical city built on the coast of Brittany, and later swallowed by the ocean. Most versions of the legend place the city in the Douarnenez Bay.
  • Cantre’r Gwaelod is the legendary ancient sunken realm said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island in what is now Cardigan Bay to the west of Wales.


Image: La Sphere du Monde, 1549, by Oronce Fine