AvalonianThe Light Bearers
The Avalonian fuses two lores: the Pleiadian star Taygeta, home of Billy Meier's planet 'Erra', and the Arthurian isle of Avalon. The result is a luminous, elf-like light-bearer people. Both strands are mythology.
At a glance
- Home system
- Taygeta (Pleiades)
- Avg. height
- 5′11″ – 7′10″
- Appearance
- Luminous, ethereal, fair, pointed ears
- Reported lifespan
- 400 – 700 years (lore)
- Social structure
- Described as spiritual orders
- Technology
- Described as light-based
- Primary traits
- Compassionate, wise, radiant
- Relationship to Earth
- Described as guides
Physical profile
The Avalonian is a luminous, elf-like humanoid: tall and fair, with pointed ears, a jewelled circlet, and pale flowing garments. It is the point where the Pleiadian of contactee lore and the elf of European legend meet, and XenoAtlas renders it deliberately at that intersection.
Reported origin
Taygeta is a real star in the Pleiades, about 440 light-years away, and the star that Billy Meier named as the sun of the Pleiadian world Erra. Avalon is the mythical isle of Arthurian legend, first named in Geoffrey of Monmouth's twelfth-century Historia Regum Britanniae. The Avalonian joins the two: a Pleiadian people imagined through the lens of the Otherworld.
Culture
Spiritual orders, light-bearing and compassionate, in the language of both traditions.
Technology
Light-based, in the contactee idiom.
Craft
Not distinctively described.
Communication
Telepathic and spoken.
Earth encounters
No cases of its own; the Avalonian draws on the Pleiadian contactee corpus and on Arthurian and Celtic Otherworld legend.
Lore & history
The elf and the Pleiadian are close cousins: both fair, long-lived, beautiful, wise, and inclined to vanish. Folklorists have pointed out that the modern alien often occupies the place that fairies once held in rural belief. XenoAtlas lists the Avalonian as contactee lore and folklore.
The 'Pleiadian elf' is a recognisable figure in contactee art of the 2000s, and folklorists such as Jacques Vallée argued as early as 1969, in Passport to Magonia, that modern alien encounters repeat the structure of older fairy lore: abduction, lost time, gifts and warnings.
Source notes
- Pleiadian contactee literature; Arthurian legend · contactee / folklore
- Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers (1969) · folklore studyFind on Amazon
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