The Zauzomank Castle Recording is the tale of King Arthur. The tale
begins with the night sky out of which comes Guinhwyvare, the moonlight
princess and daughter of the Ogre Bran, the Alder King, who is the force
of darkness. Out of the dark north comes King Arthur, son of Uther the
Dragon King, guardian of the Sacred Apple trees, and draws the mighty
sword of the dark sky, fights the destructive northern forces of Carleon,
at Bassas, at the dark Douglas River, at Mount Badon and Glem; then,
inspecting his lands, wanders to the halls of the Ogre Bran where he meets
Guinhwyvare and first sees the marvelous Round Table, the tabel of
champions, around which sit a number of goblinish warriors including the
huge Ogre Bran most noted for his mighty head which, as it moves, seems to
cause the earth to tremble and the very spaces about it to shift. From
Ogre Bran, King Arthur learns of future places to which he must go, laces
along a cycle of spiritual evolution. At last, says Ogre Bran, one gets
to Zauzomank. Zauzomank is the land of the dying suns. It was to
Zauzomank that Lord York, the Yew Tree God, the God of the Winter Sun and
father of Parsival; went. It was because Lord York and his other sons
went, one by one, toZauzomank that Parsival was dressed by his mother as
the Eternal Fool so that he couldn't follow his father to Zauzomank. It
is said that on Eboracum, on February twenty-second, Lord Yourk returns
from Zauzomank. It is however, the Spirit of Lord York which returns.
Though one might call that spiritual return, Lord York; the personality
, Lord York never returns;so, it is fittin, there should be a few tears at
Eboracum. King Arthur has not yet gone to Zauzomnak. He waits by the
gate of Avalon. He gaurds the Sacred Apples. King Uther had given that
responsibility to Bran, but King Arthur relieved Bran of that duty and
Bran with the silver branch of apples which the Moon Queen had given him,
was permitted to enter Avalon.
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