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It was at Tintagel where Arthur was conceived (and, one tale says, where he later died). became king duke of Cornwall the new king was paying address his king sallied forth to Cornwallhis wife in Tintagel Castle reached Tintagel, all he skips ahead to Arthur the king at age 15 makes Tintagel the home of King Mark and later his queen For Arthurian purposes, Tintagel Castle has served its purpose. We r more of it in passing several times but almost always in reference to the story of Arthur's begetting and birth. Supposedly, Cador took over the castle when he took over Cornwall. tradition of Arthur in Cornwall was ripe Attempting to build a comprehensive Arthurian reference site would be redundant, since there are many good sources with access to original texts, bibliographies, and other materials on the net. Finding the cream of the many existing Arthurian sites is trickier. Web site of King Arthur Uther Pendragon, The Once And Future King. This site is dedicated to the living, breathing, People's King, not the myth of legend. The King's ideals of truth, justice and the conservation of the planet for our children and the children of our children. understand why King Arthur has been incarnated in our time we present an interview with The Once and Future King, the myth, the man, his mission and the background to the problems he addresses. From the time of the great Celtic nations Druids have held positions of power. Revered by the ordinary folk they were the doctors, judges, scholars, mystics and mages of their day, travelling the country and spreading word of their religious and spiritual beliefs. But if those druids were alive today they would stand for environmentalism, justice and spiritualism, given their belief in reincarnation, the balance of the forces of nature and the interaction between the physical world and the 'other' world. The historical Arthur is shrouded in the mists of the Dark Ages. The best description of what we know and do not know about Arthur is to be found in the introduction to: Merlin first appears in extant records (Armes Prydein, Y Gododdin) from the early 10th century as a mere prophet, but his role gradually evolved into that of magician, prophet and advisor, active in all phases of the administration  Merlin was the illegitimate son of a monastic Royal Princess of Dyfed. The lady's father, however, King Meurig ap Maredydd ap Rhain, is not found in the traditional pedigrees of this kingdom and was probably a sub-King of the region bordering on Ceredigion. Merlin's father, it is said, was an angel who had visited the Royal nun and left her with child. Merlin's enemies claimed his father was really an incubus, an evil spirit that has intercourse with sleeping women. The evil child was supposed to provide a counterweight to the good influence of Jesus Christ on earth. Merlin, fortunately, was baptized early on in his life, an event which is said to have negated the evil in his nature, but left his powers intact. The original story was presumably invented to save his mother from the scandal which would have occurred had her liaison with one Morfyn Frych (the Freckled), a minor Prince of the House of Coel, been made public knowledge. Before the sacrifice could take place, Merlin used his great visionary powers and attributed the structural problem to a subterranean pool in which lived a red and a white dragon. The meaning of this, according to Merlin, was that the red dragon represented the Britons, and the white dragon, the Saxons. The dragons fought, with the white dragon having the best of it, at first, but then the red dragon drove the white one back. The meaning was clear. Merlin prophesied that Vortigern would be slain True to the prophecy, Vortigern was slain and Ambrosius took the throne. Later, Merlin appears to have inherited his grandfather's little kingdom, but abandoned his lands in favour of the more mysterious life for which he has become so well known. After 460 British nobles were massacred at a peace conference, as a result of Saxon trickery, Ambrosius consulted Merlin about erecting a suitable memorial to them. Merlin, along with Uther, led an expedition to Ireland to procure the stones of the Chorea Gigantum, the Giant's Ring. Merlin, by the use of his extraordinary powers, brought the stones back to a site, just west of Amesbury, and re-erected them around the mass grave of the British nobles. We now call this place Stonehenge. After Arthur's birth, Merlin became the young boy's tutor, while he grew up with his foster-father, Sir Ector (alias Cynyr Ceinfarfog (the Fair Bearded)). In the defining moment of Arthur's career, Merlin arranged for the sword-in-the-stone contest by which the lad became king. Later, the magician met the mystic In the romances, Merlin is the creator of the Round Table, and is closely involved in aiding and directing the events of the king and kingdom of Camelot. He is pictured by Geoffrey of Monmouth, at the end of Arthur's life, accompanying the wounded Arthur to the Isle of Avalon for the healing of his wounds. Others tell how having fallen deeply in love with the Lady of the Lake, he agreed to teach her all his mystical powers. She became so powerful that her magical skills outshone even Merlin's. Determined not to be enslaved by him, she imprisoned the old man in a glass tower, a cave or similarly suitable prison. Thus his absence from the Battle of Camlann was ultimately responsible for Arthur's demise. According to Geoffrey's "Vita Merlini" (c. 1151), Merlin/Myrddin was a sixth century prophet living in the north of Britain where his career extended beyond Arthur. Merlin travelled                          new page coming soon