Wednesday 13 August 2008

Ablach

In Celtic and pre-Celtic myth, an Atlantic island whose name meant “rich in
apple trees.” It was ruled by the Irish version of Poseidon—the sea-god,
Manannan. Ablach is paralleled by the Garden of the Hesperides, a sacred grove
of apple trees at the center of Atlas’s island, tended by the Hesperides, who
were Atlantises—“daughters of Atlas.”
(See Garden of the Hesperides)

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