Description
Watch the four myths that inspired Michael Wood to embark on his
journey: The Queen of Sheba, the earthly paradise of Shangri-La, King
Arthur and Jason and the Argonauts. Myths are more than mere stories and
they serve a much more profound purpose in ancient and modern cultures.
Myths are sacred tales that explain the world and man’s experience.
They instruct, inspire, console, and warn. They embody the wisdom of a
culture and serve to pass that wisdom to the next generation.
Shangri-La
The mythical land of Shangri-La is the novelist James
Hilton’s fictional account of the legendary Tibetan paradise Shambala.
In Hilton’s 1933 novel, Lost Horizon, he changes the name of the
paradise to Shangri-La. This lost Tibetan paradise is a valley cut off
from the world. The wisdom of the human race is being conserved there
against the threat of imminent catastrophe. Hilton’s novel was turned
into a hit Hollywood movie and the name Shangri-La came to mean a lost
paradise.
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