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Date Posted: 03:56:16 05/19/04 Wed
Columbus in the North Sea:
In 1474-1475 he appears to have visited Chios, where he may have resided some time, returning to Genoa perhaps early in 1476. Thence he seems to have again set out on a voyage in the summer of 1476, perhaps bound for England; on the 13th of August 1476, the four Genoese vessels he accompanied were attacked off Cape St Vincent by a privateer, one Guillaume de Casenove, surnamed Coullon or Colombo ("Columbus"); two of the four ships escaped, with Christopher, to Lisbon. In December 1476, the latter resumed their voyage to England, probably carrying with them Columbus, who, after a short stay in England, claims to have made a voyage in the northern seas, and even to have visited Iceland about February 1477. This last pretension is gravely disputed, but it is perhaps not to be rejected, and we may also trace the Genoese about this time at Bristol, at Galway, and probably among the islands west and north of Scotland.
http://www.yenra.com/christopher-columbus/
Various quotes on Malory, Templar, the Grail:
The fall of the Holy Land in 1291 and the dissolution of the
Knight Templars between 1307 and 1314 coincide with the temporary
disappearance of the grail romances from history. The legend was
revived when Sir Thomas Malory wrote Le Morte Darthur (1470 based
on The Vulgate cycle).
http://www.florilegium.org/files/UNCAT/Holy-Grail-art.html
>Also integrating histories of the Assassins, who kept a hidden >fortress
>secluded in the mountains, and the Templars who were rumored to worship a
>head called Baphomet is just a general must, >since they've left their mark
>on the surrounding landscape, and I >recently read a little bit about both.
> Must spend sometime in a Templar castle. Plus I want to have a
> >recurring NPC who is obsessed with the Templar treasure.
Holy Blood, Holy Grail would lead this scenario off in a completely
different direction. HB,HG claims that the Holy Grail, and the treasure of
the Templars was the bloodline of Jesus Christ his bad self. It was passed
down through the Merovingian kings of France, and was a guarded secret to
the present day when the authors were permitted to publish the secret for
general consumption.
Hancock's 'The Sign & the Seal' claims that the Grail and the Templar
treasure was actually the Ark of the Covenant. He uses the bible to trace
the transport of the Ark from Israel during the time of the kings to
Ethiopia, where it remains today. Hancock even kindly includes a photo of
the guardian of the Ark in front of the building where it is kept.
Then there is Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, which I'm willing to bet he
wrote in reaction to HB,HG.
I also read a book whose name is now lost in the mist of time, which claims
that the Grail and the treasure of the Templars _and_ the head Baphomet that
they worshipped was the Shroud of Turin. It was held in a flat box with a
hole in top that showed the face of the Shroud, which parallels the Grail as
graal, or serving tray, one of the many attempted etymologies for Grail
(from a trans of Eschebach's Parzival IIRC).
Finally, there is the book that just came out that has gone to the top of my
Christmas list: The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar: Solving the Oak
Island Mystery, by Steven Sora. I read the back in the bookstore, and this
is a real winner. When I was young, I remember, from one of those
mysterious places books I liked to read about a pirate treasure that was
buried on an island somewhere. The entrance to the treasure was so cleverly
designed that it was impossible to get to, impossible to dig around. It was
protected by booby traps along a narrow shaft that led down into the island,
and you couldn't manipulate the lock a the bottom for long because of high
tide. Does anyone else remember this? Apparently Mr Sora does, because he
claims that the it is the Treasure of the Templars that was smuggled to the
new world and hidden with their advanced, nigh-mystical grasp of engineering
in this death trap on Oak Island.
http://www.delta-green.com/comint/dgml/v03/03-290.txt
Re: one of the many attempted etymologies for Grail>>
The confusion of "Holy Grail" le saint graal as Sang real' or "royal blood" originated with Sir Thomas Malory's misspelling in his Le Morte D'Arthur (15th C). There is no valid etymological basis for Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln's contention that "holy grail" means "holy blood".
http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/sion.html
linked off from that:
"Readers of Malory may well have been puzzled by the fact that, though he sometimes refers to the sacred vessel as 'the Holy Grayle', a correct translation of the French words 'le saint graal', he also refers to it as 'the Sankgreal' and takes it to signify 'the blyssed bloode of our Lorde Jhesu Cryste', evidently because of a confused notion that 'Sankgreal' contained the element sang, 'blood'." - Roger Sherman Loomis, The Grail, From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol
http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/gnosis/queste.html#Sangreal
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