Twelve-Tribe Nations

Twelve-Tribe Nations explores the symbolism and use of the number twelve in organizing ancient societies, connecting this sacred number with the twelve months of the year, the twelve signs of the zodiac, an ideal social order and a golden age of humanity.

John Michell, educated at Eton and Cambridge, is the pioneer researcher and specialist in the field of ancient, traditional science. He is the author of more than 25 books that have profoundly influenced modern thinking, including The Dimensions of Paradise, The New View over Atlantis, and Secrets of the Stones. He lives in London. Christine Rhone is an artist and writer with a special interest in landscape symbolism. The translator of several important works, including Jacques Le Goff’s Saint Francis of Assisi, Antoine Faivre’s Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition, and Jean Richer’s Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks, she lives in ­­­London.

Introduction
The Grail: What It Is and Where to Look for It

PART ONE

1 The Universal Twelve Tribes

2 The Classical Amphictyonies

The Twelve-Tribe Amphictyonies of Greece and Asia Minor

The Twelve Cities of Etruria

The Twelve Gallic Tribes

3 Scandinavia

The Twelve Gods of Odin

The Zodiacal Wheel of Asgard

The Enchantment of Iceland

4 Africa and Asia

Egypt

West Africa

Polynesia and the Berbers

The Twelve Kings of Madagascar

The Twelve Saints of Georgia

Central Asia and the Mountain at the Center of the World

5 The Celtic Realm

The Sacred Geography of Ireland

The Ancient Divisions of Wales

Twelve Saints and the Enchantments of Britain

6 The Cosmological Foundation of Twelve-Tribe Kingdoms

Plato’s Amphictyony

The New Jerusalem and the Twelve Tribes Reunited

The Global Amphictyony

The Numerical Creation

The Twelve and the Seven

7 The Science of Enchanting the Landscape

PART TWO

8 Zodiacal Wheels on Ancient Landscapes


9 The Sacred Geography of Continents: The St. Michael–Apollo Axis

Skellig Michael

St. Michael’s Mount

Mont St.Michel

Sagra di San Michele della Chiusa and San Michele in Garfagnana

Monte Sant’Angelo, Monte Gargano

Delphi and the Greek–Apollo Line

Mount Carmel

A Line of Power and Vision

10 A St. Michael Line through England

PART THREE

11 The Chorography of Nations

The Astrological Geography of Pentecost

12 The Twelve Tribes of Israel and the Sacred Geography of the Holy Land

The Story of the Twelve Tribes

Geomancy in the Holy Land

The Axis of Vision

Jerusalem’s Messianic Ley

The Revelation of the Temple

Bibliography

Sources of Illustrations

Index