11 juin 2007
Point of Van, fountain Saint They
Here
is the fountain crowned by exellence, Saint They. It is in this place
that I of my more extremely felt one, as a door which opened on…
“another thing”. The cliff downwards presents two doors of life posed
at 90° one of the other. The water of this source is incredibly high in
vibratory rate, and I think that it is the end of an old pilgrimage,
with identical of Compostelle, but more in north. The beginning must be
with the mount Sainte Odile, and pass by high places like Chartres,
Rennes, or perhaps even Guingamp and follow the road of the Breton
crowned fountains
It would be almost impossible to find a fountain located better, in edge of sea, overhanging a rock coast, with the northern point of bay of trespassed. It is said that the voyage towards the beyond starts in bay, that the relics of the missing druids were transported by boat to their tomb located on the island of Centre, that the day of deaths, all drowned meet and seek those which they liked on ground. The hearts are sometimes fires on the ocean, sometimes of the beings, which, per series of seven, emerge from the waves and launch a call, sometimes of the peaceful spirits forming a long procession, which will request in the vault of the alive ones.
It was also told that water of the wells is purified by the moon, when they were poisoned by the sun. (Guide of 117 crowned fountains of Brittany, Daniel Spoerri, with the Jean-Michel editions Places)
The statue of the saint was stolen in the Seventies.
The photographs in winter are found on the Net.
Vault Saint They , point of Van
The vault Saint They attracted me than the fountain. Perhaps is this with the presence of the tourists?
It empèche, it is one of most beautiful than I know by his site, and cosmo-telluric energies are quite present.
The building was built with the site
even of another vault which fell in ruin, this other vault it even
having replaced another located ahead (according to the tradition).
The
vault of They Saint is vastest of the vaults of Cleden, its high altar
out of carved wooden comes from the parish church, its bell-tower
supported many bells including one born from an exchange with that of
Langroas.
A verse of an old canticle with St They, expresses at
the same time fear to see the vault absorbed in the floods of bay of
Trépassés and the wish to see it holding against the elements which
threaten it, a such figurehead on the stem of the Point of Van.
One
claims that the bell of the vault St-They sounded itself to inform the
boats in danger, to put oneself under the protection of the saint.
One
day, the fleet of king de France was continued by an enemy fleet. The
bell started to tinkle. The admiral of France answered this call and
directed his vessels in Bay of Trespassed, with the foot of the cliff
on which the vault is set up. The enemy wanted to follow there, but a
reverse current took its ships and involved them in the Strong current
where several the shelves struck, the others were dispersed with the
broad one.
One knows few things about the history
of They Saint, if it is not that it lived in VIème century and that he
was disciple of St Guénolé founder of the abbey of Landévennec. St They
is known in Great Britain, in Cornwall, under the name of St Day. It
gave its name to Lothey, (formed of Breton Lok: “place devoted” and of
They), close to Chateaulin. Vaults carry its name, Saint-Segal, Riec,
Plouhinec, Poullan.
The primitive form of its name is Dei, the
Breton pronunciation made transfer D in T. It is still written: Dey,
Tei, Tey, Thei. (http://www.cleden-cap-sizun.com/ccs,chapelle-saint-they.html)
Outside, a truncated monumental cross of 1772 exhibitor two geminated statues of the 16th century (?) probably of the workshop of Roland GILDS, dedicated to Saint Jacques.
Ra jomo pell it hoaz in E za
Ar chapelig VAr ribl rear mor
My it hello sant They divar E zor
welet rear bageier O treiza…
What remains a long time still upright
The small vault at the seaside
So that St They can since its door
See the boats to pass…
Point of Van, rock of Morgane
Located at the extreme west of the commune, this point is not other than the small sister of the point of the Strong current, both are guardians of bay of Trépassés. It has, by chance, summer more saved than its ainée and some prefer it for this with dimensions the more natural, less devastated by the risks of tourism of mass.
The rock which composes it is more friable than that of the point of the Strong current. Consequently, it is more vulnerable to the attacks of the sea. It thus has point only the name because, when one walks there, one often has difficulties in find the end of the point so much it is widened and so much its rock projections are numerous. It is perhaps what characterizes this point, not logical direction, the ways are numerous there and the perhaps long walk. Several monumental rocks are distinguished from the point, of which the famous rock of Morgane. (http://www.cleden-cap-sizun.com/)
The
current village of Trouguer, at the top of the cliffs of the Point of
Van which overhang Bay of Trespassed, is built with with dimensions of
a vast Roman establishment whose remainders level everywhere on the
surface of the ground. The culture, very intense in this part of the
littoral where the villages are very populated, unfortunately levelled
almost entirely the vestiges of construction in small apparatus which
still rose, there are a few tens of years, with several meters above
ground 1. This camp, it remained at the end of XVI ème
century a wall of almost 6 meters in height. Today, the vestiges which
remain are hidden with a few centimetres under ground and still
constitute a quadrilateral 120 meters length approximately.
Morgane, and further the rock from Merlin, obviously. It is really a “envoûtant” place, in all the directions of the term. Carry of another world: bay of trespassed, from those which pass three times, departure of the sailors for the ocean and its lost islands, take-off with the liking of the wind and Van…