Conspiracy theorists/religions scholars: "Et in Arcadia Ego"

[CanuckAmok]

What do you think happened in Rennes-le-Chateau, France?

Some think the Holy Grail is there. Others think the mythical Merovignians, descended from Christ, will use Rennes-le-Chateau as a staging point for their eventual reclaimation of the monarchies of Europe...

What do you think?

[revree]

1. There he lies dead.

Did you read HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL and MESSIANIC LEGACY? Also get a hold of DAGOBERT'S REVENGE, magazine devoted to all things Grail.

Several new books coming out on the cult of the Magdalene and the secret at Rennes-le-Chateau...

Da Vinco Code is selling better than any novel in history.

Is it time?

THERE HE LIES DEAD.

[flamingyouth]

2. Holy Blood, Holy Grail is a great book

Been out for almost 20 years, I think, and it's amazing to see it on the best-seller lists due to The DaVinci Code.

[revree]

3. BLOODLINE OF THE HOLY GRAIL

Is another good one. I think the author is Henry Lincoln.

[flamingyouth]

4. Thanks - I'll have to check that one out

I've had an interest in this for years now.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. The Merovingians were

a family of the Frankish tribe, a tribe of Germanic pagans. They produced an increasingly disappointing succession of kings of France. If they were really the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, they were in really deep cover. They spent several centuries worshipping the pagan Germanic gods before being converted to Christianity.

[Atlas Mugged]

6. Doesn't someone go....

...by the name Evening Blue Apples on Du? I'd expect them to jump in on this.

I haven't read 'The Da Vinci Code' but I've read all the other books: 'Holy Blood Holy Grail', 'Tomb of God', 'The Messianic Legacy', 'The Templar Revelation' to name a few, but I'm still not decided. I do plan on going to Rennes le Chateau sometime in the not too distant future. One of the reasons I'm so fascinated by it is because I have been to many places related to the Templars in Germany, the Czech Republic, England and Italy. However, with the current pop culture fixation on it, thanks to 'The Da Vinci Code' I've held off a bit.

If you really want to become totally immersed in it, there's a Yahoo group devoted to the subject that's been there for years. In fact, it's now splintered into several groups since they, like everyone else, can become overly zealous and quite hostile to differences of opinion. Some of these people are way too scholarly and their social skills are suffering for it. But once all the dust settles, I get to travel again, and have a chance to research new points of interest, I'll be obsessed with it again. Well, "obsessed" is a bit of an overstatement. But, man, all it takes is a best selling book to completely castrate an interesting topic.

[salvorhardin]

7. Gabriel Knight III

Did anyone play Gabriel Knight III? That was my introduction to the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery and loved every minute of it, even the ridiculously convoluted puzzles (cat hair moustache anyone?).

[starroute]

8. I think it's a load of monarchist disinformation

I'm not a debunker by nature -- I'm willing to believe in all sorts of silly things. But the Priory of Sion stuff has never sat right with me. There's just something about it that smells bad -- maybe it's the way the clues all seem to be deliberately planted -- maybe it's Planchard's (I think I've got the right name) crypto-fascist past. But I wouldn't touch this stuff with an eleven-foot pole.