Sometimes called the Forbidden Land, Land of Radiant Spirits and Land of the Living Gods. There is no old age or suffering here in this mythical kingdom.Īlso known as Shangri-la, this place has been called by many names throughout the years. According to the legend, it’s a kind of heaven where only the purest can live in a place bountiful with love and wisdom. The name was first seen in the scriptures of Zhang Zhung in western Tibet. Shambhala is a Sanskrit word that means “place of peace.” This is an ancient mythical paradise that predates Tibetan Buddhism. This is a definite favorite among occultists and esoteric conspiracists. Her Lemurians were described as having four arms and a psychic eye on the back of their head, which they used to communicate with one another through telepathy. She also posited that Atlantis also existed. In The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky claims that Lemuria contained a third race of Lemurians. Madame Blavatsky, a Russian occultist who co-founded the Theosophical society in 1875, wrote a thrilling fiction about this secret land. These stories eventually would morph into a tale of a kingdom rather than an individual man. El Dorado started out as a story about a king named “The Gilded One.” He was said to be a native king who powdered his body with gold and tossed ornate jewels into a lake as part of his coronation. El DoradoĬonquistadors riding through 16th-century South America scoured the land for a mythical city of gold. Arcadia is the archetypical view of a place untouched by civilization where humans live as gods. Medieval European writers and Renaissance painters all tried to capture the spirit of this golden-age land. Virgil and Ovid set many of their poems in these primeval forests. This was a place where beings greater than humans ascended to and lived in prosperous delight for hundreds of years - an Eden where spirits and gods gallivanted in ecstasy and longevity.Īrcadia has remained a popular muse for artists from antiquity to the modern era. The wilderness housed Pan, a woodlands God who resided with his nymphs and satyrs as his guards of a never-ending hedonistic paradise. In ancient mythology, Arcadia was a pastoral back-to-nature place. This early-vision utopia is also the name of a region in modern-day Greece. ArcadiaĪ couple of hundred years before Plato’s time, the Ancient Greeks imagined a place called Arcadia. This was the place that the great sword Excalibur was forged, and it’s where King Arthur was laid to rest and laid on a bed of gold. The mystical land was sometimes referred to as the Island of Apples because it was supposedly covered in wild grapevines and apple forests.

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