(June 7, 2014 at 2:32 pm)Confused Ape Wrote:(June 7, 2014 at 1:25 pm)mickiel Wrote: Excellent research; as I said, its possible.
Even if archaeologists were allowed to excavate the cave and they found some bones it wouldn't prove that the God of the Bible actually exists. I'd love to know what those mysterious artefacts are, though.
It's possible that King Arthur was based on a real Romano British warlord who had some success fighting the Saxons. It's also possible that he had an advisor who was believed to be a magician. This doesn't mean that the myths and legends about Arthur and his knights are true, though.
But Arthur's Grave is Nowhere Seen': Twelfth-Century and Later Solutions to Arthur's Current Whereabouts
Arthur was supposed to have been buried at Glastonbury Abbey but he's also alive and well on the Isle of Avalon and is going to return one day. Another tradition says he's sleeping in a magical land which can be found by entering caves in various places. That's when he's not leading a Wild Hunt.
Quote:At South Cadbury, Somerset, the legend of Arthur asleep in an underground 'Otherworld' is joined by another fascinating explanation of Arthur's current whereabouts, recorded here in the modern period: there is an old track near Cadbury Castle called 'Arthur's Hunting Causeway' and spectral riders and hunting-dogs can be heard rushing along it on rough winter nights, these being Arthur and his hounds - usually invisible except for glint of his horse's silver shoes - riding in the Wild Hunt (Palmer 1976: 83). This 'Wild Hunt' is an widespread and ancient folk-belief found across Europe, which would seem to at least partly owe its origins to an explanation of the strange noises made by storms and high winds. It is a phantom chase with a spectral/Otherworldly host (often said to be the souls of the dead), coursing through a forest or the air at night with bugles or horns blowing and accompanied by the cries of the hunting pack. One of the earliest-recorded leaders of this Otherworldly hunt was Odin/Woden, the Germanic god, and the leadership of the hunt seems to have been originally part of the role of the Indo-European Männerbund-gods, Odin being the classic example of this type (Kershaw 2000, especially 20-40), although it was attached over the centuries to many personages, both mythical and historical, such as Charlemagne, the Devil, Herla (possibly Odin under another name), Arawn (King of Annwfyn, the Welsh Otherworld), and Gwyn ap Nudd.
Even though this folk-myth can be traced back to Odin, it doesn't prove that Odin exists.
Well there is so much biblical archaeology that leads to evidence of a god existing, its just unreal;
http://www.bible-archaeology.info/palaces.htm