[kj] Rennes Le Chateau and the Mystery of the Holy Grail

[Darren Peace]

The Bible.

Darren
Hungerford, UK

On 12 Oct 2012, at 07:05, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

It certainly is a hoax, but I challenge anyone to find a more entertaining
or elaborate one.



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I've been to Rennes Le Chateau and bought the David Wood book in the book
shop there. Even if it all is a hoax, it's an intriguing place.

On 11 October 2012 09:42, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

The *Prieuré de Sion*, translated from
French<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language>as
*Priory of Sion*, is a name given to multiple groups, both real and
fictitious. The most controversial is a fringe fraternal
organisation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_organisation>,
founded and dissolved in France <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France> in
1956 by Pierre Plantard <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Plantard>. In
the 1960s, Plantard created a fictitious history for that organisation,
describing it as a secret
society<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_society>founded by Godfrey
of Bouillon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_of_Bouillon> on
Mount Zion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Zion>in the Kingdom
of Jerusalem <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Jerusalem> in 1099,
conflating it with a genuine historical monastic order, the Abbey of Our
Lady of Mount Zion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_Our_Lady_of_Mount_Zion>.
In Plantard's version, the priory is devoted to installing a secret
bloodline <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodline> of the Merovingian
dynasty <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovingian_dynasty> on the thrones
of France and the rest of Europe
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe>.[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion#cite_note-1>This
myth <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology> was expanded upon and
popularised by the 1982
pseudohistorical<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistory>book
*The Holy Blood and the Holy
Grail<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Blood_and_the_Holy_Grail>
*[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion#cite_note-Baigent.2C_Leigh_.26_Lincoln_1982-0>and
later claimed as factual in the preface of the 2003 novel
*The Da Vinci Code
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code>*.[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion#cite_note-DVC-2>

After becoming a *cause
célèbre<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause_c%C3%A9l%C3%A8bre>
* from the late 1960s to the 1980s, the mythical Priory of Sion was exposed
as a ludibrium <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludibrium> created by Plantard
as a framework for his claim of being the Great
Monarch<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Catholic_Monarch>prophesied
by
Nostradamus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus>.[4]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion#cite_note-3>Evidence
presented in support of its historical existence and activities
before 1956 was discovered to have been forged and then planted in various
locations around France by Plantard and his accomplices. Nevertheless,
many conspiracy
theorists <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theorist> still persist
in believing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-believer_syndrome> that the
Priory of Sion is an age-old cabal
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal>that conceals a
subversive <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion>
secret.[5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion#cite_note-Putnam-4>

The Priory of Sion myth has been exhaustively
debunked<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debunker>by journalists and
scholars as one of the great
hoaxes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax> of the 20th
century.[6]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion#cite_note-CBS-5>Some
skeptics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeptic> have expressed concern that
the proliferation and popularity of books, websites and films inspired by
this hoax have contributed to the problem of conspiracy
theories<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories>,
pseudohistory <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistory> and other
confusions becoming more mainstream<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream>
.[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion#cite_note-Thompson_13.2F01.2F2008-6>Others
are troubled by the
romantic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism>
reactionary<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary>ideology
unwittingly promoted in these works.
[8]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion#cite_note-Klinghoffer_2006-7>

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







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I remember in Melody Maker in 1986 (Jaz Coleman's Top Ten Heroes), Jaz
talked about David Wood and his book Genesis, which was the first book in
English to deal with "the markings and mythologies associated with an area
in France called Rennes Le Chateau...Three of the band are completely
obsessed by it".



The mystery of Jesus Christ's bloodline was also researched in the books
Holy Blood and Holy Grail by Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent and Richard
Leigh, and Bloodline of the Holy Grail by the late Laurence Gardner (Jaz's
opera on Christ's marriage to Mary Magdelene was featured on Gardner's old
website).



Rat Scabies of the gothic punk band The Damned has led recent tours of
Rennes Le Chateau under the auspices of the Sauniere Society. Has anyone on
this list been there?



http://www.sauniere-society.org



http://www.therennesgroup.com


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