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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 823582" data-attributes="member: 53455"><p>Today, I have something for those of you who are interested by mysterious, unexplained, borderline phenomena and beliefs.</p><p></p><p>The place we’re in is the cathedral of Le Puy-en-Velay in Auvergne (central France), one of the major Romanesque buildings of the Western World. Built between the late 1000s and the mid-1200s, it is a UNESCO World Heritage monument. There would be a lot to say about it, and maybe one day we shall return to say it, but today I want to show you what is easily the most intriguing artifact inside the cathedral: a black basalt polished stone table, roughly 3 × 2 meters, which is rumored to have been the top part of a <em>dolmen</em> (this is Breton language for “table of stone”*) that had existed since time immemorial on the hilltop where the original cathedral was built when Christendom took over (the current cathedral is the second one, at least).</p><p></p><p>Its name is <strong>The Stone of Fevers,</strong> because as legend would have it, lying on it helped cure fever-related illnesses. Faint amounts of radioactivity emanate from it, which will ring a bell in the memory of those who have read <em>L’île aux trente cercueils</em> (“The Island with Thirty Coffins”) by French writer Maurice Leblanc, the “father” of Arsène Lupin.</p><p></p><p>One still sometimes sees <em>bona fide</em> (no pun intended) believers lying face down on this stone for minutes to pray, or maybe just meditate. I saw a fully robed nun doing it once, and believe me, the intensity of the faith and the abandon were something I am not about to forget. She was crying tears of joy when she got up. This is a rare place where one can actually see nowadays the interconnection between pagan and Christian rites.</p><p></p><p>Panorama shot made up of 2 separate handheld exposures, stitched with PTGui. I have no other data. Obviously it was taken on a tripod as the exposure time is supposedly 10 seconds (it is indeed quite dark in that corner).</p><p></p><p>* : the Bretons colonized Auvergne and a large part of western France at some point during the Bronze Age, which is why there are many standing stones in that part of France.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]409662[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 823582, member: 53455"] Today, I have something for those of you who are interested by mysterious, unexplained, borderline phenomena and beliefs. The place we’re in is the cathedral of Le Puy-en-Velay in Auvergne (central France), one of the major Romanesque buildings of the Western World. Built between the late 1000s and the mid-1200s, it is a UNESCO World Heritage monument. There would be a lot to say about it, and maybe one day we shall return to say it, but today I want to show you what is easily the most intriguing artifact inside the cathedral: a black basalt polished stone table, roughly 3 × 2 meters, which is rumored to have been the top part of a [I]dolmen[/I] (this is Breton language for “table of stone”*) that had existed since time immemorial on the hilltop where the original cathedral was built when Christendom took over (the current cathedral is the second one, at least). Its name is [B]The Stone of Fevers,[/B] because as legend would have it, lying on it helped cure fever-related illnesses. Faint amounts of radioactivity emanate from it, which will ring a bell in the memory of those who have read [I]L’île aux trente cercueils[/I] (“The Island with Thirty Coffins”) by French writer Maurice Leblanc, the “father” of Arsène Lupin. One still sometimes sees [I]bona fide[/I] (no pun intended) believers lying face down on this stone for minutes to pray, or maybe just meditate. I saw a fully robed nun doing it once, and believe me, the intensity of the faith and the abandon were something I am not about to forget. She was crying tears of joy when she got up. This is a rare place where one can actually see nowadays the interconnection between pagan and Christian rites. Panorama shot made up of 2 separate handheld exposures, stitched with PTGui. I have no other data. Obviously it was taken on a tripod as the exposure time is supposedly 10 seconds (it is indeed quite dark in that corner). * : the Bretons colonized Auvergne and a large part of western France at some point during the Bronze Age, which is why there are many standing stones in that part of France. [ATTACH type="full"]409662[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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