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	Holy Grail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The development of the Grail legend has been traced in detail by cultural historians: It is a legend which first came together in the form of written romances, deriving perhaps from some pre-Christian folklore hints, in the later 12th and early 13th centuries.
		The legend of the Holy Grail is the basis of the use of the term holy grail in modern-day culture.
		For the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, who assert that their research ultimately reveals that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to wed Mary Magdalene and father children whose Merovingian bloodline continues today, the Grail is a mere sideshow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holy_Grail (2838 words)

	Holy Grail - Crystalinks
		The development of the Grail legend has been traced in detail by cultural historians: it is a Gothic legend, which first came together in the form of written romances, deriving perhaps from some pre-Christian folkloric hints, in the later 12th and early 13th centuries.
		The legend of the Holy Grail is the basis of the use of the devalued term holy grail in modern-day culture.
		The Grail was overripe, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) deflated it and all pseudo-Arthurian posturings.
	www.crystalinks.com /holygrail.html (4459 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Holy Grail
		The early history of the Grail is intimately connected with the story of Joseph of Arimathea.
		The fully developed Grail legend was later on still further connected with other legends, as in Wolfram's poem with that of Lohengrim, the swan-knight, and also with that of Prestor John, the fabled Christian monarch of the East.
		After the Renaissance the Grail legend, together with most medieval legends, fell into oblivion, from which it was rescued when the Romantic movement set in at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06719a.htm (2185 words)

	The Grail Legend
		The Grail legend goes as follows: Parsifal was brought up by his mother in the seclusion of the wilderness after his father had died in a battle with his elder brothers.
		His cure according to the legend was for Parsifal to ask the magic question about the Grail which is "Whom does one serve with the Grail?" He fails to do this however, and the country as a consequence becomes a barren land or a waste land as is so called in the legend.
		He believed that the Grail was a stone fallen from heaven which is a sharp contrast to the popular belief that it was a chalice.
	www.kisol.com /HolyGrail/graillegend.htm (3374 words)

	Holy Grail - discovered at last?
		The Grail, Holy Grail, Greal, Graal, etc. is the name given to a legendary sacred vessel, variously identified with the chalice of the Eucharist or the dish of the Pascal lamb, and the theme of a famous medieval cycle of romance.
		When we come to examine the literary tradition concerning the Grail we notice at the outset that the Grail legend is closely connected with that of Perceval as well as that of King Arthur.
		So the reconstruction of the original Grail legend can be accomplished only by an analytical comparison of all extant versions, and is a task that has given rise to some of the most difficult problems in the whole range of literary history.
	www.rosslyntemplars.org.uk /holy_grail.htm (3102 words)

	Knights Templar in the Grail Legend
		One very important question regarding the Grail Legend is, "Where did the story begin?" Although sources for the legend range from Celtic to Oriental, the classical version of the story began in the time of the Crusades.
		The Grail was the chalice of Christ's blood, not a mystic stone, which might also signify "vas Hermetis" o r the Philosopher's Stone of the alchemists, capable of transmuting all to spiritual harmony.
		The Grail on the St. Clair tombston e also explains why the Grail is still held to be within the Apprentice Pillar in Rosslyn Chapel, a pillar built especially to enclose it.
	www.ufodigest.com /shadowmag/paranormal/grail.html (1381 words)

	J.L.Weston on Wagner's 'Parsifal' and its Medieval Sources: part 1
		Grail watchers, the solemn call to prayer from the castle, and the rising sun flashing the lake mists in the background.
		Grail with the vessel of the Last Supper; but both these statements are incorrect.
		Grail is a later feature, due to the connection with the myth of the swan-knight, who, in the latest forms of the story, became identified with
	home.c2i.net /monsalvat/weston.htm (1821 words)

	THE HOLY GRAIL
		The Grail withdrew its presence from humanity however, when its highest guardian in one version looked lustfully at a maiden who had come to worship, the lance fell on him spontaneously inflicting a deep wound that would not heal and from then on he was referred to as the maimed or wounded king.
		In fact in one of the legends it was during this time that the high priest failed when he happened to have looked lustfully at a maiden whose dress was torn when she came to worship.
		Therefore, the Grail was indispensable to the prosperity of the land.
	www.kisol.com /HolyGrail/theholygrail.htm (13492 words)

	The Grail Legend: from ancient stories to Wagnerian opera
		he legends of the Holy Grail are woven of three strands: a Celtic tradition of otherworld vessels and supernaturally powerful weapons; an Arabic or Byzantine tradition of a mysterious stone that had fallen from the heavens; and a Christian tradition, perhaps of Gnostic or heretical origin, of a mysterious talisman.
		The history of the holy vessel which is called Grail, in which the precious blood of the Saviour was received on the day He was crucified in order to redeem His people from hell...
		Wagner adopted the Christianised version of the Grail but discarded the Question entirely, made the recovery of the spear the focus of the story and changed some of the names from those found in Wolfram's poem.
	home.c2i.net /monsalvat/grail.htm (1363 words)

	Holy Grail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Grail is first featured in Perceval, le Conte del Graal (The Story of the Grail) by Chrétien de Troyes, who claims he was working from a source book given to him by his patron, Count Philip of Flanders.
		Then the legends of King Arthur and the Holy Grail were collected in the 15th century by Thomas Malory for his Le Morte D' Arthur which gave the body of legend its classic form.
		In Brown's novel, it is hinted that the Grail was long buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel just like one tradition claims, but in recent decades its guardians had it relocated to a secret chamber embedded in the floor beneath the Inverted Pyramid in front of the Louvre Museum.
	holy-grail.iqnaut.net (3025 words)

	Grail Legend Modern Lit, 1843840227, £40.00/$75.00, 188pp, 2004
		There are three parallel trends in Grail scholarship and modern adaptations of the legend: controversy over Christian or pagan origins, secularization by way of humanism, and esoteric mysticism.
		Mythographers maintain the legend's appeal in a humanist culture by considering the Grail metaphor rather than material actuality; modern adaptations then transform the Grail from a particularly Christian symbol to one with universal application in an increasingly secular society.
		This study, then, demonstrates how the Grail legend is transformed and adapted from medieval to modern cultures and continues to evolve today.
	www.boydell.co.uk /43840227.HTM (368 words)

	HOLY GRAIL IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		These legends faintly reflect the truth, but only very faintly, because the lofty inspirations and visionary pictures of the poets were pressed into far too material a concept through the intervention of the intellect during the transmission.
		Nor is the Holy Grail meant to be the cup which the Son of God used during His last meal with His Disciples at the end of His Ministry on earth, and in which His blood was afterwards caught when He was on the cross!
		This vessel is a sacred memento of the Son of God's sublime work of redemption, but it is not the Holy Grail of which the poets of the legends were mercifully granted to sing praises.
	www.cinemaseekers.com /HolyGrail/Grail8.html (1745 words)

	Royalty.nu - King Arthur - History, Legend, Books
		Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry and Legends of Charlemagne or Romance in the Middle Ages by Thomas Bulfinch.
		The Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends by Ronan Coghlan.
		From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and the Holy Grail by C. Scott Littleton and Linda A. Malcor.
	www.royalty.nu /legends/Arthur.html (2629 words)

	The Holy Grail - Holy Grail
		According to legend, Joseph of Arimathea used the Grail to catch Christ's blood while interring Him and then took the object to Britain where he founded a line of guardians to keep it safe.
		The development of the Grail legend has been traced in detail by cultural historians: it's a gothic legend, which first came together in the form of written romances, deriving perhaps from some pre-Christian folklore hints, in the later 12th and early 13th centuries.
		A more recent theory related to the origins of the Holy Grail holds that the earliest stories that cast the grail in a Christian light were meant to promote the Roman Catholic sacrament of the Holy Communion.
	www.scottbruno.com /Holy-Grail.htm (3699 words)

	Mystic Christianity
		The earliest Grail legends describe the cup as a veritable horn of plenty.
		In Nature worship the ever-flowing Grail signifies the bounty of the harvest by which the life of man is sustained; like Mercury's bottomless pitcher, it is the inexhaustible fountain of natural re source.
		In one of the legends concerning him it is declared that when Jesus was sent to liberate the world from the bondage of evil, the Adversary determined to send an Antichrist to undo His labors.
	www.worldspirituality.org /mystic-christianity.html (4723 words)

	Jung, E. and Franz, M.v.: The Grail Legend.
		The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture.
		The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice that caught the blood of the crucified Christ.
		Writing in a clear and readable style, two leading women of the Jungian school of psychology present this legend as a living myth that is profoundly relevant to modern life.
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/6369.html (313 words)

	Mystical-WWW : The Holy Grail
		The origin of the 'Legend of The Holy Grail' is believed to belong to the ancient Britons probably of Welsh and Keltic heritage as known in Goidelic and Brythonic myths which have at their core a mystical tradition.
		This new Grail was said to manifest only those who were worthy of seeing it, first appearing in legend when the country had fallen into a wasteland after the fall of the Western forces in the Holy Land.
		The legend of Taliesin himself tells of how he himself was believed to have been born as the result of Ceridwen eating Gwion when both were transformed as the result of the magical properties of the Cauldron's water.
	www.mystical-www.co.uk /grail (1811 words)

	The Grail Legend
		Emma Jung, the wife of Swiss psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, and an analyst herself, worked on this book The Grail Legend for thirty years. Unfinished at the time of her death, it was completed by eminent psychologist Marie Louise von Franz.
		These two women analysts have examined the stories of the Knight Perceval's quest for the Grail, as told in the medieval poems by Wolfram von Aschenbach and Chretien de Troyes, in the light of analytical psychology.
		The Legend of the Grail has held a fascination for centuries, not least in our own time in the book The Da Vinci Code. Through our reading and discussion we will have a chance to delve into this ancient story and come to understand some of its fascination and wisdom for the psyche.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~ilead/courses/winter05/grail.html (230 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Holy Grail: The Legend, the History, the Evidence: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is not one legend but many, from King Arthur to the Knights Templar to the mysterious village of Rennes-le-Chateau and the Merovingian bloodline.
		This work explores the events that gave rise to the legend of the Holy Grail and pays special attention to the texts that form the body of the legend, as well as historical facts about the life of Christ, the Crusades, and the fall from grace of the Knights Templar.
		I confess I'm obsessed with the Grail, the Knights Templar, Mary Magdalene, the Tarot.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0786409991 (978 words)

	University of Toronto -- News@UofT -- Holy Grail legend may be tied to paintings (Oct 20/05) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For centuries people (including the mythical King Arthur and his knights) have searched for the Holy Grail, the legendary goblet allegedly used by Jesus at the Last Supper (although other references suggest it was the vessel used to collect drops of blood from him as he languished on the cross).
		Goering suggests poets first imagined the holy grail when they saw or heard about the paintings in the Pyrenees showing the Virgin Mary with an “enigmatic and radiant vessel” that would have been called a grail in the local dialect.
		“At first, people didn’t know what a grail was, only that something important was named a grail and it was associated with Jesus so when they saw these paintings of the Virgin Mary holding a vessel, they assumed this must be what a grail is and began telling stories to substantiate their beliefs,” Goering says.
	www.news.utoronto.ca /bin6/051020-1720.asp (518 words)

	Amazon.com: The Grail Legend: Books: Emma Jung,Marie-Louise von Franz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Grail is the site where the opposites are united, the personality becomes whole,the internal struggles against opposing forces within the self stops, and thus the healing of the King (Self) is at hand.
		Students of the legends of King Arthur and the Round Table will find this to be a very scholarly study of the particular tale of Perceval and his search of the Holy Grail.
		Carl Jung specifically steered clear of the Grail Myth because it was understood that it was Emma's territory.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691002371?v=glance (2095 words)

	Amazon.com: The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol: Books: Roger Sherman Loomis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In "The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol," Roger Loomis convincingly argues (as the title might suggest) that the idea of the Holy Grail has its roots not in apocryphal Christian eschatology but in the Celtic myths of the British Isles.
		He further objects to the characterization of the grail as a cup, showing that before it was identified as a chalice, it had previously been portrayed as a flat dish and even a rock (!).
		The concept of the grail as an ever-replenishing source of sustenance is based on another linguistic misinterpretation that has an archaic Welsh word for "cup" being mistranslated into French as "body," as in the body of Christ (i.e.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691020752?v=glance (1308 words)

	KING ARTHUR AND THE HOLY GRAIL
		Templars and the Grail Role of the Knights Templars in the Grail Legend
		Legends: King Arthur and the Matter of Britain - Exploring King Arthur in history, fiction, folkore, and the arts.
		Designed to provide secondary educators (all disciplines) with Web-based resources for the study of Arthurian legends; and to publish on-line lesson plans designed to provide the means for students to increase their proficiency in using the internet and to learn about Arthurian-related material.
	www.greatdreams.com /arthur.htm (3473 words)

	MLvF - The Grail Legend
		The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend which has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture.
		The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice which caught the blood of the crucified Christ.
		Weaving together narrative and interpretation, the authors show us how the legend reflects not only fundamental human problems but also the dramatic psychic events which form the background of our Christian culture.
	marie-louisevonfranz.com /b/gr1 (232 words)

	Arthurian Studies & References (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail, C. Scott Littleton, Linda A. Malcor, Garland Pub, April 1994, ISBN: 0815314965 Hardcover
		The Grail Castle: Male Myths and Mysteries in the Celtic Tradition, Kenneth Johnson, Marguerite Elsbeth, Llewellyn Publications; January 1995, ISBN: 1567183697
		The Legend of the Grail (Arthurian Studies), Nigel Bryant (Hardcover)
	www.celtic-twilight.com /amazon/arthurian_refs.htm (1602 words)

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