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The Legend

From my point of view the most important things in this story are as follows:
His surname was “Pendragon”, which means, “head of the dragon” or "dragon pendant". He proved his royal rights when he got out the sword from the stone. He got his next sword (the first one broke) from Lady of the Lake, and Merlin was his intermediary.
Also Lancelot du Lac (of the Lake), his champion, was a gift from the Lady.

Now a little about Chinese history, myths and legends.

 

 "In the right lower corner there is the Rock to Trial Swords. It is said that King Wu two and a half thousand years ago tried his sword, and cut this rock with it. Writings on boulders nearby tell this story. In the vicinity lies the Lake of the Sword. Perhaps swords were tempered in its waters long time ago. All these you can find near Suzhou, on Tiger Hill, known in old days as Hill of Waving Sea."

I read all this in the book of Robert Temple "Genius of China".

The start of King Tang dynasty (Shang dynasty) was announced by bronze sword, appearing from water. The dominant element was metal, and garments were white. Symbolism of iron and white color connects with Xiwangmu, the Mother of West Kings, and with Lake and Tiger (trigram "Lake" in Book of Change means "lake", "witch", "West", "Tiger" and some others.

Now let's look at this sign:

 

 It means "old, antique". Does it looks like a sword in a rock?

Don't you see it yet?

The sword in the rock, the Lake of the Sword, Lady of the Lake, the Sword from the Lake...

Xiwangmu, Lady of the West, has a crow as one of her symbols - like Celtic war goddesses - and like King Arthur.
Findings on Mongolian and Chinese border (mummies of blond Europeans, dressed in Scottish checkered cloth (dated at 4.000 - 800 years ago) give us the proof that people of Celtic origin were living there for more than three thousand years!
The story about the sword, the rock and Lady of the Lake could wander through Asia and Europe from one group to the other.
If we add together the things I told about and the fact that the surname of King Arthur was "Pendragon", which means "Dragon Head" or "Dragon Banner", and the sign of Chinese emperors is the dragon, the similarities are striking.
I think that more ancient stories were wandering from East to West and from West to East.

Let's look first at this sign:

It means:

"The Book of Change". Also you can read this as “The Book of Zhou Family” or “Divination about Everything”.
For people who don’t know Chinese it looks like “a house on Chicken Feet”. Heroes of fables find in this house a witch, good or bad. Perhaps she was Daoist sightseer? Someone without reading skill would describe this sign just like that.

And something from Polish fables:

Chinese roofs of old often were adorned with figurines of a magus who wanted to reach Heaven riding on a chanticleer the sixth line of 61 hexagram) but was thrown down by a thunder. The Book of Change is 5000 years old, perhaps older. Polish magus, Master Twardowski, who lived in XVI century, mounts a chanticleer and he tried to run from a devil on it. He ended suspended between Heaven and Earth.

Perhaps his story is older than 400 years?

And great thanks to Steven King who was looking into my site!

 

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