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Three Cathar Castles – Languedoc, France
There was dew upon a grapevines when you left a rented farmhouse nearby Carcassonne. We gathering south up a Aude River Valley by a low, vine- carpeted mountainous country around Limoux, stone climbing in to a beech as well as hunger forests of a Pyrenees foothills, past a turn-off for Rennes-le-Châteaux, a tiny encampment done important by The Holy Blood as well as a Holy Grail.
From a two by four as well as plastics locale of Quillan, once well well known for select felt hats, you followed a double behind which took us to 3 “Cathar” fortresses over south along a Aude by slight gorges as well as afterwards east, up as well as opposite a Atlantic- Mediterranean watershed as well as behind by a Galamus Gorge with a hair-raising, two-metre-wide highway forged in to a limestone nooks as well as crannies of a steep hillside. Clefts in a earth such as this had special stress during pre-Christian times, when a earth was still suspicion of as a vital entity, as a “person,” as well as minerals were organic substances which completed as well as grown in a earth’s womb. Like a important crevasse during Delphi in Greece, this ravine would have been suspicion of as a genital opening (”delphi” being a Greek word for vagina). It was in a cavern not distant from here which a oldest well well known tellurian skull in Europe was discovered, dating behind 450,000 years.
