Legends & Cycles — Under the Megalith
“Civilizations pass. Structures remain. A structural reading of worlds, systems and cycles.”
Les Mystères du Vieux Valois. Illustrated Kindle & EPUB Edition
Exploring the Hidden Landscapes of the Old Valois
Before the development of the current Legends & Cycles collections, several French-language works explored forgotten landscapes, local traditions and the deep symbolic structures embedded within regional territories. Les Mystères du Vieux Valois is one of these foundational works.
Situated north of Paris, between the valleys of the Automne and the Nonette, the forests of Halatte and Ermenonville, and the old towns of Senlis and Crépy-en-Valois, the Valois preserves an extraordinary concentration of legends, sacred sites and historical memories.
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Beneath its churches, villages and woodlands survive traces of much older worlds:
- megalithic stones and forgotten sacred places;
- ancient roads and territorial crossings;
- saints who inherited the functions of older divinities;
- giants, white ladies and wandering spirits;
- healing springs and miraculous relics;
- forests where mythology and history still overlap.
The book follows the landscapes of the Automne Valley, Mont Cornon, Crépy-en-Valois, Senlis and the surrounding forests, revealing how geography, folklore, Christianity and earlier traditions became layered over centuries.
Rather than presenting folklore as a collection of isolated stories, Les Mystères du Vieux Valois approaches legends as elements of a wider territorial memory. Ancient routes, sacred hills, rivers, churches, forests and local traditions form a coherent symbolic landscape whose traces remain visible today.
This new Kindle & EPUB edition offers a substantially revised and reorganized version of texts originally published more than twenty years ago. It preserves the spirit of the original investigations while presenting them in a more accessible format for contemporary readers.
More than a regional study, the book explores how landscapes retain memory — and how myths, saints, place names and traditions continue to shape our perception of territory long after their original meanings have been forgotten.
Includes the original illustrated archival PDF edition at no additional cost.
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About Jean-Marc BELOT
Legends & Cycles — Under the Megalith 