Where is the river Alph?

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Where is the river Alph?

Question #68983. Asked by smartie806.

joezhou300
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The Alph is supposedly an "underground river" of Esotericism in Europe, symbolising the secret knowledge held in that Continent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alph

Jul 29 2006, 1:00 PM

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smartie806
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smartie806
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I was looking more for this, mentioned in Coleridge's Xanadu:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu

Jul 29 2006, 1:04 PM

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denmarks
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denmarks
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Antarctica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alph_River

Jul 29 2006, 1:04 PM

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The Alph is in the Peloponnese in Greece. It runs within about a quarter of a mile of Olympia, site of the original Olympic Games. This is Alph the Sacred River of Coleridge's poem.

Jul 30 2006, 4:35 PM

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I never knew Kublai Khan lived in Greece... Mind you, Coleridge had been on something quite strong, by many accounts, before he wrote what there is of that poem. What a pity that person from Porlock interrupted.

Jul 31 2006, 2:19 PM