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The Temple of the Stars is an alleged ancient temple thought to be situated around Glastonbury
Glastonbury

Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. The town has a population of 8,800....
 in Somerset
Somerset

Somerset is a Counties of England in South West England. The county town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county. The Ceremonial counties of England of Somerset borders the counties of Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west....
, England
England

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. The temple is thought by some to depict a colossal landscape zodiac
Landscape zodiac

A landscape zodiac is a map of the stars on a gigantic scale, formed by features in the landscape, such as roads, streams and field boundaries....
, a map of the stars on a gigantic scale, formed by features in the landscape (roads, streams, field boundaries, etc). The theory was first put forward in 1935 by Katherine Maltwood
Katherine Maltwood

Katherine Emma Maltwood was an artist and became known as the discoverer of the Glastonbury Zodiac , an enormous geomantic creation surrounding the Tor at Glastonbury, Somerset, England....
, an artist who "discovered" the zodiac in a vision, and held that the "temple" was created by Sumer
Sumer

Sumer was a civilization and a historical region located in Southern Iraq , known as the Cradle of civilization. It lasted from the first settlement of Eridu in the Ubaid period through the Uruk period and the Dynastic periods until the rise of Babylon in the early 2nd millennium BC....
ians in about 2700 BC.






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The Temple of the Stars is an alleged ancient temple thought to be situated around Glastonbury
Glastonbury

Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. The town has a population of 8,800....
 in Somerset
Somerset

Somerset is a Counties of England in South West England. The county town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county. The Ceremonial counties of England of Somerset borders the counties of Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. The temple is thought by some to depict a colossal landscape zodiac
Landscape zodiac

A landscape zodiac is a map of the stars on a gigantic scale, formed by features in the landscape, such as roads, streams and field boundaries....
, a map of the stars on a gigantic scale, formed by features in the landscape (roads, streams, field boundaries, etc). The theory was first put forward in 1935 by Katherine Maltwood
Katherine Maltwood

Katherine Emma Maltwood was an artist and became known as the discoverer of the Glastonbury Zodiac , an enormous geomantic creation surrounding the Tor at Glastonbury, Somerset, England....
, an artist who "discovered" the zodiac in a vision, and held that the "temple" was created by Sumer
Sumer

Sumer was a civilization and a historical region located in Southern Iraq , known as the Cradle of civilization. It lasted from the first settlement of Eridu in the Ubaid period through the Uruk period and the Dynastic periods until the rise of Babylon in the early 2nd millennium BC....
ians in about 2700 BC. The idea was revived in 1969 by Mary Caine in an aricle in the magazine Gandalf's Garden. Compared to Maltwood's version, she turned Scorpio upside down, added a monk to Gemini, and altered the outlines of Capricorn, Libra, and Leo.

The temple plays an important role in many occult
Occult

The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g....
 theories. It has been associated with the Grail legend, Uther Pendragon
Uther Pendragon

Uther Pendragon is a legendary king of sub-Roman Britain and the father of King Arthur.A few minor references to Uther appear in Old Welsh language Medieval Welsh literature, but his biography was first written down by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae , and Geoffrey's account of the character was used in most lat...
, and King Arthur
King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
 (according to some legends buried in Glastonbury).

The idea was examined by two independent studies in 1983, one by Ian Burrow and the other by Tom Williamson and Liz Bellamy, using the standard methods of landscape historical research. Both studies concluded that the evidence contradicted the idea. The eye of Capricorn identified by Maltwood was a haystack. The western wing of the Aquarius phoenix was a road laid in 1782 to run around Glastonbury, and older maps dating back to the 1620s show the road had no predecessors. The Cancer boat (not a crab as would be expected) is made up of a network of eighteenth century drainage ditches and paths. There are some Neolithic
Neolithic

The Neolithic period was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 Before the Christian Era in the Middle East that is traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age....
 paths preserved in the peat of the bog formerly comprising most of the area, but none of the known paths match the lines of the zodiac features. There is no support for this theory, or for the existence of the "temple" in any form, from conventional archaeologists.

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