sunmystic  interesting idea radioactive lakes.
Where I live is where part of the myth was set, the Isle of Glass is really the Isle of Man (about 11 miles out in sea from here).
When looked at from this part of Cumbria you can just make out the mountains on a good day but then they vanish due to weather conditions - very spooky!

Professor where you live is filled with legend and myth and stories of the old I am mostly Scot and some day I would like to visit northern Britain.

When you say very spooky it reminds me of the creatures that come out of the mist

They say that it use to be sunny and clear where you live and one could study the stars. Then the weather changed and no more stars

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sunmystic

Professor here is a legend that you might find interesting

The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg and that artist that created ceramic eggs and covered them with gold and jewels so that folks would not break them open to remove the gold that was in the middle of the ceramic egg.

What is funny about that particular legend is that one can turn leadsulfied (galena) into gold using the ceramic egg method and it is actually quite simple. The Egyptians used the method alot and the math for it does change the concept of nuclear physics abit. I have done this and it does work, it is just that the lead changes to bismuth first and then the bismuth changes to gold. And because it is an endothermic reaction it "does" require a long cooking time.

Here is what one needs: a charcoal forge, ceramic clay, slaked lime or very clean powered limestone (I used slaked lime), and a small chunk of Galena (lead sulfied). It turns out that limestone (calcium carbonate) is the philosopher's stone so the lime is critical for this process to work.

Place the leadsulfied chunk inside a small ball of lime and water. Then place the lime ball in a ball of ceramic clay and shape the clay into an egg shape that is about the size of a large goose egg. Cook in forge for a long time, you can not over cook it and the longer the better. I did it in this my old wood stove one winter when I had nothing else to do. You need to keep the egg temperature in the golden white color heat range.

And until somebody else does this (Oh and admits that they did it under scientific conditions) the fact that I did it is not science. Ok?

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sunmystic

So Professor how is this for exploring a legend/myth just for fun ?

A fellow found a really big bowl made out of some kind of metal. We can call this bowl a "cauldron". Anyway this fellow brought this cauldron home to his people and some how somebody figured out that one can cook things in it .

So to create a reality where everyone shares things equally and everyone has something to eat, all agreed to place everything that they found foraging into this cooking cauldon. And this cooking cauldron would never be empty. Things might get abit thin and more water than food, but it would never be empty.

Because of that fellow finding that cooking cauldron, we still today ask, "How is the soup of the day? or, "How is the "son of a gun stew today?"



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sunmystic

PS: Professor, do have a legend that you like that we can all explore?

sunmystic - very interesting, one question are you sure it was lead sulphide, I'm pretty sure that can conatin silver, iron sulphide is fools gold.
As to my favourite myth - here's a story that illustrates the problems (or maybe not).
A man went round an art gallery and was fascinated by a picture of 3 naked black men sat on a bench, they were all black apart from the one in the middle who had a pink penis.
As he was stood there the curator came passed and asked him if he needed the picture interpriting, he nodded.
The curator launched into long analysis of how it represented the way the black man was emasculated by the white man etc.etc.
The man nodded, thanked the curator and looked anew at the picture.
A rather scruffy tramp walked up did he want to know the truth about the picture?
"How do you know", asked the man.
"Because I painted it," replied the scruffy individual.
"What it really about is 3 miners coming up at lunchtime and the man in the middle went home for lunch!"