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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Supernatural Horror in Literature/Spectral L...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Short tales like "Avatar", "The Foot of the Mummy", and "Clarimonde" display glimpses of forbidden visits that allure, tantalise, and sometimes horrify; whilst the Egyptian visions evoked in "One of Cleopatra's Nights" are of the keenest and most expressive potency.
Gautier captured the inmost soul of aeon-weighted Egypt, with its cryptic life and Cyclopean architecture, and uttered once and for all the eternal horror of its nether world of catacombs, where to the end of time millions of stiff, spiced corpses will stare up in flness with glassy eyes, awaiting some awesome and unrelatable summons.
Gustave Flaubert ably continued the tradition of Gautier in orgies of poetic phantasy like The Temptation of St. Anthony, and but for a stron grealistic bias might have been an arch-weaver of tapestried terrors.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Supernatural_Horror_in_Literature/Spectral_L...   (1845 words)

  
 "The Mysteries of Carnac and Atlantis" by Paul Johnson
A very ancient site in Brittany (France) of a temple of cyclopean structure, sacred to the Sun and the Dragon; and of the same kind as Karnac, in ancient Egypt, and Stonehenge in England.
Each of the stones was personally placed there by the successive priest-adepts in power, and commemorated in symbolic language the degree of power, status, and knowledge of each.
Nor did the Druids build them, for they were only the heirs to the cyclopean lore left to them by generations of mighty builders and -- "magicians," both good and bad.
www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/world/anceur/eu-john.htm   (2578 words)

  
 Phoenician Gold Mines of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
Meanwhile, from the Phoenician kingdoms on the Eastern Mediterranean came the offshoots Phoenician colonies of Carthage, Sardinia, Malta, Sicily, Cyprus, Hippo, Utica, Pelusium, Cilicia (Tarsus), Memphis (in Egypt), and those in most parts of the Mediterranean.
These were the people who worked for tin in the British Isles, whom, some believe, left the memoria standing to this day of their nature-worship in Ireland, Scotland, England, and even in Iceland, and who gave Spain its earliest history.
Whether they were the same people who erected the stone temples, circles, and monolith in South America and the South Sea Islands is a question not arising in connection with Monomotapa.
www.phoenicia.org /zimbabwe.html   (5438 words)

  
 Archaeology in Europe: 11/01/2004 - 11/30/2004
A cyclopean task will put to an end a decades-long diplomatic dispute between Italy and Ethiopia over a looted obelisk, according to a bilateral agreement signed last week in Rome.
Professor John Hunter and a team of 15 have discovered what is believed to be a buried medieval crofting settlement while carrying out general field survey work in and around a harbour village in the Western Isles.
Artefacts buried under the clachan of Rodel, on south Harris, may provide evidence that the community was once an international trading centre, with vessels arriving from Scandinavia and also the Mediterranean.
www.archaeology.eu.com /weblog/2004_11_01_archaeologyeu_archive.html   (8846 words)

  
 Necronomicon.org - Links of Interest
The cyclopean tomb where you can search for nameless tomes.
Mythos is a CCG released by Chosium in 1990s.
The Black Seal is a new magazine for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game from Chaosium and the Delta Green RPG setting by Pagan Publishing.
www.necronomicon.org /links   (1439 words)

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