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

[powens]

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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> *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****

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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".****

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> 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).****

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> 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?****

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> http://www.sauniere-society.org****

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> http://www.therennesgroup.com****

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