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Holy Grail

The true origin of the myth

A report by Walter Hain

June 3, 2007

For decades, actually for centuries, researchers, mystics and political leaders are searching for the mysterious Holy Grail. In this case, they expect by itself fabulous fortune or unlimited power. It is a question of the retrieval of a bare cup - perhaps from the last supper of Jesus -  from an incredibly valuable cup engaged with gold and precious stones to a  machine even fabulous from that gold could be won or the biblical manna. Indiana Jones and Adolf Hitler are only two of the wellknown Grail searcher, the one with the corresponding dramaturgy from Hollywood, the other one from racistic and despotic political reasons.

The Grail attained its popularity in the 12th century through a poetic story of Chrétien de Troyes (approx. 1150 to 1190). in its verse novel Le Conte du Graal, that he had written for the counts of Flanders between 1179 and 1191 he described events around a king by the name of Artus and Perceval and a Holy Grail, the noble revere and guard knight in a Grail castle. It is a precious gold bowl decorated with precious stones, that the Grail king through Perceval is presented in order to release him of his suffering.

Between 1200 and 1210 Wolfram von Eschenbach undertakes the Grail story from Chrétien de Troyes. He transmits them into German-speaking literature and extends this by anglo-normannic aspects. It are the rulers and princes Anjou and Balduin of Bouillon around that itself the history entwines. His Grail is a lithic vessel, by the name of lapis exilis, that the food and potion Knights of the Grail donates. The vessel also protects against the aging and the death. His strengths owes he one pigeon, that every Good Friday a Host of the sky brings. The names of the Knights of the Grail appear on the lithic vessel.

At the end of the 12th century, Robert de Boron adds Christian aspects to this story. The Grail becomes in its Novel de l´estoire dou Graal to the cup from the last supper of Jesus and with Joseph of Arimathaea he absorbed the blood of Christ at the cross as that in the apocryphal, not biblical, Nikodemus gospel (also known as Pilatus files or Acta Pilati) discribed, that goes back to the  time 200  after Christ

In a document dated to December 14th, 1134, is called, that the cloister San Juan de la Pena, in Huesca, in Spain, is in the possession of a cup, engaged of green agate with precious stones, that Jesus at the last supper has used. In the year 1437 where rose this cup after Valencia where he is kept since then in the cathedral. Three Popes, Johannes XXIII., Johannes Paul II. and in 2006, too Benedikt XVI, they confirmed the cup, the "Santo Caliz of Valencia", relic status.

Richard Wagner, the German composer, has the Grail legend represented in her opera "Parsifal" (1882)  musically impressively.

The English authors Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh believes in her book Holy Blood, Holy Grail published in 1982 in New York that the Holy Grail is the "blood line" of Jesus, when she have detected - resorting onto old apogryphe sources -  Jesus had with Mary Magdalene an intimate circumstance (see The Da Vinci Code), and descendants came out of that.

The Grail should also be a bowl, that of king David by divine dispensation in a cave below the crucifixion hill Golgota was hidden before enemies. Drops of blood of Jesus should have fallen into these bowl at the cross.

Valuable bowls, cups and  drinking cups were increased since the Middle Ages revered as the Holy Grail. In such a way too a agate bowl of the possession of the Habsburgs, perhaps coming from the 4th century of Constantinopel, to see in the clerical and mundane treasury in the Hofburg in Vienna, Austria. In the natural grain of the bowl, the name Christ should be had see.

However, bowls, cups or similar vessels were already used much sooner for ceremonial actions and often as miracle bowls considered, from which all possible drinks were drunk for the stabilization and intoxication. One might only think at the charm kettles of the druids. Also the Celts knew magic vessels and a drinking horn or a horn of plenty that miracle food donated, that for fortune and fertility would guarantee.

Generations of book authors, researchers and adventurer searched in the last centuries for the Holy Grail and did not finally become rich. In this case, more than one small precious cup or a valuable bowl did not come out. The Grail is more tremendous and more powerful in reality than a neat vessel from the workshop of an artist. It is also not a simple wood cup which Jesus supposedly used at the last supper. The Grail means a lot more, in such a way, he would have come in into the myths normally not.

From the name in all probability the Grail comes from the 12th century around the story of Chrétien de Troyes. It gives an alto French word "graal" for a vessel or a bowl; in Okzitanish (a gallo-romanic language which was spoken in the southern part of France, Italy and Spain), there is the word "grazaal" or "grial" for a drinking vessel. In the Greek one, there is the word "crater", a mixing vessel which sometimes cosmic importance has there and in the Roman one exist the word "cratalis/gradalis" also for a "mixing vessel".

A painting of of 1833 of Thomas Cole represents the Grail as a gigantic vessel, as the crater the big mixing vessel. In the background, the sun or the moon (Matthews, John: The Grail - The truth behind the myths, p. 13). In aother painting of Edwin Austin Abbey of 1895 Galahad holds the bright, shining Grail in the hands (Terhart, Franjo: The Holy Grail - Myth of the occident, p. 93).

One does not find the true Grail in museums, churches or castles. The true Grail finds itself in millennia old myths. One must thin the myths and study the old writings, around the secret to come onto the basis. Much what conceived people pay attention, is nature based on that for itself from the ideas via the courses of events, from observations millennia long the direct and remote living space.

Who wants to find the Grail must rummage at the large libraries. One from time to time becomes rich there. Already more than twenty years ago, I found in the National Libary of Vienna a literary scientific work published in 1911 with the title "Die Wurzeln der Sage vom heiligen Gral, transl. The roots of the legend of the holy Grail" written of Leopold von Schroeder, a member of the imperial academy of sciences. At that time scientific literary works were published in so called "session reports" from the imperial academy. The work is based on numerous scientific publications around the Holy Grail from the 19th and the beginning 20th century. Leopold von Schroeder is not satisfied with the medieval springs, he runs into the myths the nations before and is finally in impressingly logic way rich.

Leopold von Schroeder therefore, already saw almost hundred years ago the origin of the legend of the Holy Grail and the symbol of a powerful vessel in the myth of the Veda (Weda), the oldest holy writings of the Indians from 1250 BC. In the Mahabharata, the national epic of the Indians from the 4th century after Christ it is reported that Yudhishthira, after he practiced asceticism, praised the sun and it receives for it from the solar God Vivasvant to the present a pot of copper (pithara) that itself upon request again and again automatically fills. The vedic Indians considered the sun to be a heavenly porridge pot (odana). In Sanskrit, it is said that the solar God feasts Vishnu on his highest point of view with the Gods and the blissful deposited.

The true Holy Grail (Source Sun: The Celestia Motherlode).

"Both in the rite and in the myth of vedic time, it becomes clearly manifest, that the two big, luminous elements of the sky, sun and moon, when heavenly vessels were thought, round off its contents of the Gods or the blissful deposited, or from both ones, enjoyed, in a slurped manner, one drinks", writes Schroeder. That seems plausible, nothing tremendous and nothing powerful one can nevertheless be as the appearance of the sun and the sight of the (full) moon. Appeared for many nations they however, these gigantic celestial body as vessels (bowls) from which the Gods also the people strength ladle and also they drink (symbolic) from it.

The people of the pre-time did not yet know, that the sun and the moon have spherical shape. They saw gigantic luminous elements in them at the sky and at best, gigantic round panes.The human being however, was above all the conscious of strength of the sun why the most important cults were solar cults. The moon also arrived later, maybe however at the same time. Above all the sunlight donates strength and heat and it determines essentially life of course on earth. What seems likely, for that it was regarded as the sun that supplies bases of life of the people and of the entire earthly nature a gigantic vessel that might feed and drank.

The sun was also taken as heavenly sacrifice light which is ignited while the Gods drink the Soma from the heavenly vessel, the moon. In vedic texts, the sun is taken as a heavenly porridge pot, as a pot of milk from which the Gods drink and sometimes also drink the people (above all, the priests) from it. The heavenly mead is sometimes drunk from this also. In the ritual of the so called Parvargya sacrifice, the sun appears filled as a earthen pot with hot milk. Too the old Germans took the sun as a vessel from which mead is drunk.

The moon as spender of the Soma (Apollo 11, Nasa).

Too the moon with the Indians and the Germans was taken as a heavenly rushing potion vessel. The Rig-Veda reports by the drunkenness potion of Gods, from the Soma. For the people, it is an intoxicating juice of milk and flour which is made by fermentation, after crushing a specific plant. Also the Persians knews such a juice under the name Haoma or Hauma. However, the Soma of the Gods stands at the sky: it is the Moon. In a song in the Rig-Veda is called: "The Soma whom the priest knows, of that a human being does never enjoy." In another verse is called: "When she o God, you drink up, you than at once bulge again! The wind is of the Somas guardian, the month is the picture of the year." That shows clearly, that the Moon was regarded as a vessel which becomes drunk up and which is then immediately filled again - as well as the Grail.

The sun sacrifices of the Maya.

Too the motive of the drought and of sterility of the country finds itself into the Indian Veden and in the Grail legend. Indra lets after heroic adventures the heavenly mead as rain pour to earth. In the Grail legend, the country becomes fertile again after the castle is found.

Also the lance of the Longinus was in the Grail legend formed and not left as a simply weapon of the Roman that wanted to test the death of Jesus. The rite pagan for the church required their position in the heads of the people. They were to be won only if her old customs and myths were converted into Christian ideas. So in the Grail legend Lohengrin, the swan knight and the son of Parzival, is compare with the guardian of the Soma (the Gandharve) in the Indian Veda. The lance in the Grail corresponds to the descriptions in the Mahabharata after what Indra the belligerent God of the sky, the tempest and the rain, occurs armed with a lance or a spear. Indra also drinks the Soma.

The sun cult of the Egypt.

What concerns the Grail, so the bowl is, the cup of the Joseph of Arimathea in the Christian introduction, stepped in the place of the pagan symbol, the moon. Therefore, old myths were christianized and lived on in this way in the heads of the people. Wonderful vessels (subjects) those loan eternal joys and immortality, which were won in fight of noble (pure) knights was made of the cloth from that the histories for the people in the Middle Ages was made and that us today deep moved.

The blood in the Grail:

If the Gods drink from the sun and the moon, they also drink from the heads and/or the skulls of her killed enemies. In such a way, the people drank the blood of their enemies in horrible rituals from magic vessels. The priests however drank the divine blood. From time to time were too the bodies of the enemies and of the Gods eats. It developed ones the  introduction, that only one that the body of a God and the blood of a God drinks attained superhuman abilities. In such a way, Jesus says at the last supper after he burst the bread: "Take, eat; this is my body". And he took the cup and said: "Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood..."(Matth. 26, 26-28). The blood is the most noble juice of the human being and of the Gods and the true contents of the Grail.

The Grail cult is an old sun and moon cult. All the Grail searchers of the modern times seem not to have recognized that. John Matthews that was occupied with the legend of the Holy Grail for decades long writes of the "potion of immortality", the Soma, and he sees similarities with the Grail legend in the Rig-Veda, however he does not recognize the heavenly vessels apparently, the precursors of the Grail which drunkenness potion and mead supplies, those are described clearly in the vedic texts: the moon and the sun. The sun supplies the mead, the heavenly nectar, the biblical manna, the ambrosia; the moon provides the Soma, the drunkenness potion in many variations (beer, wine, a. o.).

The Grail cult in his origin is not a cup cult or a cult in touch some vessel (kettle, bowl) he is also not a cult in touch of a blood line (kinship line) and also not a  snake cult (serpent grail): he is in his origin an ancient sun and moon cult.

Sources:

Matthews, John: Der Gral - Die Wahrheit hinter den Mythen, Bassermann, München 2006.

        -"-               : The Grail, Octopus Publishing Group Ltd., London 2005.

Terhart, Franjo: Der Heilige Gral - Mythos des Abendlandes, Parragon Books, UK 2005.

Schroeder, Leopold von: Die Wurzeln der Sage vom  heiligen Gral, Sitzungsbericht der Kais.

                             Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Wien 1911.

In the Internet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Grail

"In the Vedas, Soma is portrayed as sacred and as a god (deva). The god, the drink and the plant probably referred to the same entity, or at least the differentiation was ambiguous. In this aspect, Soma is similar to the Greek ambrosia (cognate to amrita); it is what the gods drink, and what made them deities. Indra and Agni are portrayed as consuming Soma in copious quantities. The consumption of Soma by human beings was probably under the belief that it bestowed divine qualities on them."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma

HYMN CXIII. Soma Pavamana:

4 Splendid by Law! declaring Law, truthspeaking, truthful in thy works,
Enouncing faith, King Soma! thou, O Soma, whom thy maker decks. Flow, Indu, flow for Indra's sake.
6 O Pavamana, where the priest, as he recites the rhythmic prayer,
Lords it o'er Soma with the stone, with Soma bringing forth delight, flow, Indu, flow for Indra's sake.
8 Make me immortal in that realm where dwells the King, Vivasvan's Son,
Where is the secret shrine of heaven, where are those waters young and fresh. Flow, Indu, flow for Indra's sake.
10 Make me immortal in that realm of eager wish and strong desire,
The region of the radiant Moon, where food and full delight are found. Flow, Indu, flow for Indra's sake:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv09113.htm

The Holy Grail in The Da Vinci Code (only in German):

http://web.utanet.at/mahain/jesus_und_der_da_vinci_code.htm

See this image:

From: http://www.gothicimage.co.uk

 

Read this book:

Jesus, King Arthur, and the Journey of the Grail: The Secrets of the Sun Kings By Maurice Cotterell Publisher: Bear & Company (April 2006)

From: http://shopping.msn.com/reviews/shp/?itemId=149283566

 

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