The Most Famous Mythical Places of the World

Throughout history, mankind has often  been enthralled by stories of mythical places, cities and paradises shrouded in secrets and lost to the sands of time. Here are the well known mythical places in the  world.

While I'll weaved tales about lost and ancient cities, also dreamt of places that once gave rises to utopian golden ages. A journey through the history of these fabled lands has captivated many. Some people might even be inspired to believe in them all over again.

Atlantis

Unlike many stories whose appearance have been lost to the historical record, we know exactly when and who invented the story of Atlantis, The story was first told by Plato around 330 BCE, in two of his dialogues "Timaeus" and "Critias".

The Sunken City of Atlantis was supposed to be an incredible powerful civilization. Sophisticated, wealthy and founded by demigods. Despite this story's origin in pure fiction, many people over the millennia have sought out this mythical place. Ignatius L. Donnlley believed that Plato considered Atlantis real place.

Shangri-La

The ancient mythical paradise that predates Tibetan Buddhism. The name was first seen in the Scriptures of Zhang Zhung in western Tibet. According to the legend, it's a kind of heaven where only the purest can live in a place bountiful with love and wisdom. There is no old age or suffering here in this mythical kingdom.

This places has been called by many names throughout the years, Sometimes it called the Forbidden Land, Land of Radiant, spirits and land of the living god's. Many westerners believed that it to be a real place for sometime, hidden deep within the Tibetan Mountains. In Buddhists tradition it's said to be ruled over by a future Buddha named maitreya and when the world declines into object war and degeneracy, a great war will come as the Shambhala kings ride out to defeat "dark forces". It is after this time in which the world will be ushered into a new Golden age.

Avalon

 

Glaston bury, a town in England, well known

for its neopagan beliefs and local Arthurian legends was once thought of the location for the legendary, idyllic and lost paradise of Avalon. The first mention of Avalon was in 1136 through Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. According to Arthurian legend, the island was ruled by Morgan-le-Fay, an enchantress who nursed king Arthur back to health after a battle.

The mystical land was also referred to as the island of apples because it was supposedly covered in wild grapevines and apple forests. It's inhabitants were immortals as well. This was the place that the great sword Excalibur was forged. This magical place is where King Arthur was laid to rest and laid on a bed of Gold.

Arcadia

A couple of hundred years before Plato's time, the Ancient Greeks imagined a place called Arcadia. It has remained a popular muse for artists from antiquities onwards. This early vision utopia is also the name of a region in modern-day Greece. The wilderness houses pan, a wood lands god who resided with his nymphs and saturd as his guards of a never-ending hedonistic paradise.

This was a place where beings greater than humans ascended to and lived in prosperous delight for hundred of years. Medieval European writers and Renaissance painters all tried to capture the spirit of this Golden Age land. It was an Eden where spirits and gods gallivanted in ecstasy and longevity. Arcadia is a archetypical place where humans live as god's.

Thule

A place of intrigue for many explorers, poets, and even Nazi occultists. Thule was a territory that was said to be located in the frozen North near the Arctic. The tale daues back to 4th century BCE when a Greek explorer named pytheas claimed to have traveled to an icy Island North of Scotland.

Many of pytheas fellow explorers doubted the validity of his claims, but the Thule legend would live on through the ages. Eventually, the original location was most likely a mistaken Norway or Iceland. The myth of the Island is most famously connected to the Thule society, a post world war - l organization that believed Thule to be the ancestral home of an Aryan race.

Lemuria

This hidden land was told through stories many ages before Atlantis. There are many origins to Lemuria, same occult writings, pseudo-histories and even scientific musings of a lost continent as well. In some sacred Tibetan texts, this land is also known as muri or Lemuria.

Madame Blavotsky, a Russian occultist who

Co-founded the Theosophical society in 1875, wrote a thrilling fiction about this secret land. Blavotsky claims in her "The Secret Doctrine" text that Lemuria contained a third race of Lemurians, she also posited that Atlantis also existed.

El-Dorado

Conquistadors riding through 16th century South America scoured the land for a mythical city of gold. 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.

The legends grew over the years as the Europeans spread and discovered more of South America. The Golden City was a place of untold prestige and wealth, which captivated plenty of adventures. El-Dorado was said to be next to lake Guatavita when explorers found the lake, they lowered level of the water and found of hundreds of gold pieces. But fabled city remained out of their grasp until all swathes of South American land where eventually covered and the myth was no more.

Conclusion 

In conclusion, these mythical places have inspired many folklore, fiction works, authors and mythologies throughout the history. Whether it's the legend of King Arthur or comics of DC and Marvel such as Aquaman or Atlantis mentioned by philosopher such as Plato. As it were mentioned in many texts, Today, generations should inspire from the the places that have provided and expanded the imagination to peoples since the beginning of time.        

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