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Glastonbury in Somerset, southern England, is a magical place. Here the bizarre silhouette of the most famous ancient monument of the island kingdom - the tower remaining from the destroyed church - rushes into the sky. This remains to this day a reminder of the former splendor of Glasstonbury Abbey. The city and surrounding area are covered in pagan and Christian legends. In the past, Glastonbury was a group of islands in a marshy lowland. According to some legends, this is where the island of Avalon - Yns Avallach (Apple Tree Island), the underworld of the Celts, was located, before the monks of the abbey drained this swampy area in the Middle Ages. Myths say that on Avalon, in a wonderful palace shrouded in fog, King Arthur and his wife Guinevere were buried. The origins of English mythology are connected with Glastonbury. Stone Age people chose it as a place of worship of the cosmic Mother Goddess, who embodied the feminine principle, in the understanding of psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, the anima, which combined wild, elemental natural power and creative, life-giving, ordering forces.