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

[Brendan Quinn]

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 c
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause_c%C3%A9l%C3%A8bre> élèbre 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_13.2F01.2F20
08-6>  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

 

 

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Were Wolf
Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 4:55 p.m.
To: The Gathering KJ
Subject: [kj] Rennes Le Chateau and the Mystery of the Holy Grail

 

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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