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GUEST,John 18 Sep 04 - 01:22 PM
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Subject: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,John
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 01:22 PM

What do other learned Mudcat members make of this?

From last week's Hertfordshire Mercury newspaper:


Holy Grail: is it here?

ROYSTON Cave may hold the key in the search for the Holy Grail, the famous quest for Christ's chalice dating back to Biblical times.

Grail hunters are set to flock to the historic site following the publication of best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown.

The book has fuelled enormous interest in the grail, believed to have been used by Christ at the Last Supper and by Joseph of Arimathea to collect Christ's blood on the cross.

On the trail are places where ancient fellowship of warriors the Knights Templar held sway - and Royston Cave is just one of the places in Hertfordshire which is steeped in Templar lore.

Unexcavated parts of the popular attraction may hold clues to the mystery and some people think there is a distinct possibility the ancient relic is hidden in one of the unexplored caverns.

Cave curator Peter Houldcroft expects to see Grail hunters, including Freemasons, a group connected with its secrets, dropping into the cavern.

He said: "I've had a couple of visits from Masons who are fascinated by the cave. I hope to see quite a few people with The Da Vinci Code tucked under their arm.

"I've read the book myself and it is a fascinating assembly of knowledge."

Local historian and publisher David Perman, who believes grail hunters may also be visiting settlements of the knights in Hertford and Ware, said: "They will see Royston Cave as a possible place to find the grail. Maybe it is there - it's a distinct possibility."

Archaeologist Sylvia Beamon spent 25 years studying the cave and has published a book, Royston Cave: Used by Saints or Sinners?, outlining her theory that it was used by the Knights as a cellar and store for the goods they sold in the market.

She was a little more sceptical as to whether the hidden treasure was in the cave.

She said: "I think the Templar used the cave because of the symbols and signs there. I don't know whether the Holy Grail is there, but I wouldn't have thought it was real possibility. I do try to keep an open mind though!"

The Cambridge-educated historian explained that there are two quadrants in the cave that have yet to be explored and there is another cavern down the road, which she would love to see opened.

The Da Vinci Code has sparked enormous debate about the basic tenets of the Catholic Church.

It claims Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children whom he wished to carry on his message, and that the Vatican blackened Mary's name, calling her a prostitute in a bid to tarnish her image and to make Christ look more divine.

SOURCE: Hertfordshire Mercury, 10 September 2004, page 3.
http://www.herts-essex-news.co.uk/mercury/news/story.asp?id=150387


See also this week's Hertfordshire Mercury, page 2:

Town may be a base for secret society

A SINISTER secret society said to control the world's governments has members living in Hertford, according to a documentary to be aired on Sky One next week.

The Mercury can exclusively reveal that it will claim the mysterious sect, the Illuminati, rumoured to involve bankers, power brokers and politicians, may have an underground base in the town.

Formed in Bavaria in 1776, the group's high-powered members are said to include George W Bush and his presidential rival John Kerry, who joined Yale University's Skull and Bones club, a branch of the sect.

Conspiracy theorists claim that the society is "bent on world domination" in a shadowy behind-the-scenes bid to control us.

As part of Sky's series on conspiracy theories, journalist Danny Wilson met with Hertford man and insider Tim Acheson, in a bid to meet an Illuminatus.

Tim belongs to a high-ranking family in the Knights Templar, a powerful society of warrior monks which dates back to the Crusades - and who still meet at a secret location in the town.

But he denied a link with former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a well-known Templar, who was in President Harry S Truman's inner circle during the 1950s.

Cryptically, he told the Mercury: "I cannot talk about my family connections. The older members of secret societies want to keep them secret, whereas some of the new blood is a bit more open.

"I do know two members of the Illuminati who live here, but I must protect their identities.

"There are powerful and dangerous forces at work here and I cannot risk getting on the wrong side of them."

The Mercury was given a sneak preview of The Illuminati - Our Secret Masters, which will be aired on Sky One next Thursday at 9pm.

Tim, a reporter for conspiracy theory website www.theinsider.org, is seen driving through Bull Plain, Fore Street, Railway Street and St Andrew Street in Hertford with the TV presenter.

They drive to a deserted industrial estate near the town and wait for the shadowy figure to turn up - but Wilson begins to think that he's been led on a wild goose chase.

Finally Tim returns to say his contact has "got cold feet" and backed off meeting the press.

Speaking to the Mercury this week, Tim said: "It is very difficult to get them to reveal themselves, as you can understand, but I hope that it may happen at a later date."

And he promised to reveal more of Hertford's hidden secrets. He said: "Hertford is very important as a centre of mystery and intrigue, more than most people realise."

Next week's programme is one in a four-part series on conspiracy theories showing every Thursday in September.

Picture caption: Secret past? Egyptian House in Fore Street, now home to Lussmans Eatery, is believed to have been a meeting place of secret society the Knights Templar of Aquarius.

SOURCE: Hertfordshire Mercury, 17 September 2004, page 2.
http://www.herts-essex-news.co.uk/mercury/news/story.asp?id=152654


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 01:37 PM

Naaah... Indiana Jones already found it...


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: sledge
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 01:43 PM

So thats where I left it, can I have it back please.

Jesus, moving in mysterious ways through Sledge as he has no cookie of his own :-)


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 01:49 PM

Funny you should say that. Indiana Jones must be hot on the trail of the Knights Templar, the legendary guardians of the Grail. The Templars are also said to have the Ark of the Covenant, which Jones tracked-down in his greatedt blockbuster, Raiders of the Lost Ark!


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 01:57 PM

The Ark of the Cov. is most likely in Northern Africa, and it's hiding place has NOTHING to do with the so called "Knights Templar"...


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 02:01 PM

Nobody knows where the Ark of the Covenant is. North Africa is just one of many theories. If you aren't aware of the well documented theoretical connections between the Templars and the Ark, you simply haven't done your homework.

http://www.templarhistory.com/ark.html


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 02:05 PM

I've read some of the histories on the Templar Knights... And some of their own propeganda...

North Africa is the theory that I think holds the most water...


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: mooman
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 02:18 PM

Nah! Many of us actually witnessed it being refound in South Yorkshire in 2001 and thenceforth being returned to its current Guardian, a Pagan, in East London!

Peace

moo


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: M.Ted
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 02:59 PM

Real history is more entertaining than this pseudohistorical stuff with it's "documented theoretical connections", it's shadowy characters, and it's mysterious pie shops--

As for the Grail--if Hitler couldn't find it, it is difficult to imagine that a presenter from Skye TV could--


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 03:34 PM

Evidently a thin news week for the Hertfordshire Mercury - but were they downhearted? No way! They turned to and turned up this one...


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 07:38 PM

The Ark is the Indiana University museum basement. The Grail, on the other hand, is hidden somewhere in Redmond, Washington.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 08:10 PM

I thought the Ark was on Mt. Ararat.....(grin). I'd LIKE to believe.....prove it to me. So far, most of this stuff has turned out to be hoaxes....Shroud of Turin, etc.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 09:50 PM

Noah's Ark is on Ararat; next to the Burger King. The one in Indiana is the other one. I think it was built by Scottish Covanenters.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: dianavan
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 11:08 PM

and here I thought the arc of the covenant was the rainbow...


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 11:20 PM

About two years ago the Mudcat coven was moved from Wyoming to Colorado.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Bert
Date: 18 Sep 04 - 11:33 PM

Naughty, naughty GUEST! Funny but VERY Naughty.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,John
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 03:31 AM

I believe that finding the grail is not important; rather, it is the endevour to understand the grail and the Quest its self that matters.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 03:45 AM

Mooman,

Now you've let the cat out of the bag! We'll now have hundreds of conspiracy nuts looking for the Ark in the tunnels under the Black Lion and jamming up the bar.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 04:37 AM

In consideration of the fact that the Holy Grail was either made of wood or clay..could it have survived..unattended for over 2000 yrs?.
IMO it either no longer exists or has been carefully attended for the whole or most of that time, in which cae someone or some people actually KNOW where it is but will never divulge it.
Best wishes.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 04:43 AM

How or from whence did you ascertain this "fact" about the Grail??


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 04:45 AM

It's in the museum in Hull, but don't tell anyone.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 04:51 AM

Hollywood, that great source of inspiration for many Historical Recreationists, including the SCA.

It's a guess that someone 'allegedly' from a lower socio-economic class would use such an item - but it could equally have been a metal object loaned from someone else.

And 'The Grail' as documented in historical literature was not originally a cup, but a plate.

~~~~~~~~~~~~
Interestingly, my spell checker wants to substitute "Staffordshire" for "Hertfordshire" .... :-)


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 05:00 AM

I should have known someone would ask that! It comes from a study I did of the history of that area of the world in that period...but I did that in my early twenties so cannot remember the scource. It might be a good exercise GUEST for you to do your own study and prove me wrong rather than for me to go back and research again. How about it?
Foolestroupe....Your point noted about social classes but as I remember it..only the Scribes/Pharisees/Royalty had metal goods on their tables. I accept that a metal object could have been borrowed, as you put it but it would not really fit in with practices of the times.
Please remember that this is from memory(30yrs ago) and not QED
Best wishes.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 05:13 AM

I always knew that Hertford was the true centre of the universe.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: sledge
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 05:20 AM

Its certainly a fascinating subject, but not one in which I have too much faith. I always thought that the Grail was not mentioned until the emergence of the various Grail romances in the early medieval period. Even now they make great reading I reckon.

Cheers

Sledge


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,John
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 07:49 AM

What shall we make about this suggestion that the Grail, whatever it may be, could be in Hertfordshire? Or that the Knights Templar are still active in the area operating in the form of a secret society?


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 08:01 AM

Graildroolers can't clog up Herts. It would violate the PELs thing. They'll simply have to be turned back.

~S~


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,John
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 08:42 AM

What about this part? It's easy to dismiss out of hand, but could there be some truth in it?

"The Mercury can exclusively reveal that it will claim the mysterious sect, the Illuminati, rumoured to involve bankers, power brokers and politicians, may have an underground base in the town."

http://www.herts-essex-news.co.uk/mercury/news/story.asp?id=152654

http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=0143


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 10:28 AM

Maybe there's about to be a fourth book released in "The Illuminati Triology"? :-)


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Cod Fiddler (at work)
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 10:56 AM

Actually, a Grail was found at Hawkstone Park in Shropshire and King Arthur is thought to be buried in Baschurch and Robin Hood, who is linked to the story, comes from Alberbury near Shrewsbury. Read it all in the not-particularly-academic-but-remarkably-believable-and-entertaining book The Seach For the Grail. Details below.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/yvan.cartwright/books/grail.htm

I intend to write a very learned work proving that King Arthur did, in fact, come from Hull.

Richard.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: dianavan
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 12:16 PM

Because of its Grail myths, Montsegur became the focus of Nazi archeological expeditions by the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage Society") -- a criminal agency of Heinrich Himmler's notorious SS dedicated to identifying past Aryan links with modern Germany through archeology and anthropology. It was the Ahnenerbe which collected skeletons and skulls of concentration camp prisoners specially selected and carefully killed as specimens.

Montsegur was brought to the attention of the Nazi's by Otto Rahn who explored the ruins of Montsegur in 1929 and went on to write two popular Grail novels linking Montsegur and Cathars with the Holy Grail: Kreuzzug gegen den Gral ("Crusade Against the Grail") in 1933 and Luzifers Hofgesinf ("Lucifer's Court") in 1937.   

If you want to read more: http://www.russianbooks.org/montsegur/montsegur4.htm

I don't think they found it so it could well be in Hertfordshire.

d


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Amos
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 12:26 PM

I promise you -- even if they found it, all it would do is sit on a shhelf looking odd and taking up space.


A


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 19 Sep 04 - 06:23 PM

I still have plenty of Grails left. They're £350 each, 3 for £1000. I'll only sell them to true believers, though.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 01:58 AM

Each one guaranteed as the original, Les?

I wouldn't want to be conned into buying a fake you know!

Robin


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 03:37 AM

Les, have you got any front grills for a Morris Traveller?


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 11:11 AM

Yes I have the Original Holey Grill.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Lighter
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 11:52 AM

Long ago I read a horror novel about the Holy Grail. It turns out to be REALLY EVIL. Anyhoo, at one point the hero says (I'm paraphrasing of course): "I've spent a month studying the Grail. I've read everything ever written about it."

Now THAT'S speed reading!


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: leeneia
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 04:17 PM

I remember reading a scholarly work which said that originally the Grail had nothing to do with Christ or the Last Supper. It was said to have fallen from the sky, sent by "angels in Anjou."

I suspect it was a cup made from meteoric iron. Like swords from the same source, it was thought magical.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Cluin
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 04:46 PM

All of these artifacts were stolen by time-travelling collectors many years ago. The replacements left were cheap (in the future) knock off replicas.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 10:16 PM

My Barbeque is a Holey Grill.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: leeneia
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 11:11 PM

Cluin, would you please try to be rational? If a time-travelling collector went back and snagged the Holy Grail, leaving a cheap knock-off in its place, then when the collector returned to the present, the Grail would be hereandnow, perhaps in a cave in Hertfordshire, perhaps in a flea market somewhere.

With or without the time-travelling collector, the result is the same.

If the Grail was made of meteoric iron, it would surely have rusted away by now.   But suppose it was a carbonaceous chondrite. Everybody start combing the flea markets for wine glasses that look like stoneware with black nodules.

I can hardly wait to see what they say on The Antiques Road Show.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,lucia
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 08:09 AM

What? Somebody found a pre-war Martin in a cave in England?


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 03:09 PM

The Millstream, Hertford served my beer in a mug just like that!
And there's a singaround there tomorow too.
See Jacqui, Lanfranc and gain eternal youth. Should be a good night!
Keith.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Cluin
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 08:56 PM

Thanks for being more irrational than me, leeneia.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Raymond Brown at the Mercury
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 05:24 AM

More will be revealed in the hunt for the Grail in forthcoming articles in the Mercury...


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 05:34 AM

It's in a warehouse in DC 'cos Indiana Jones put it there, aided by Mulder and Scully. Interestingly, its catalogue number is pi times the circumference of the Great Pyramid divided by thirteen...

Best bit of reading on these matters? Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: mooman
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 05:36 AM

Which of course you need a PhD to get through Kate! (;>)

Peace

moo


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 06:07 AM

Or two in your case, Richard! ;)


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 06:38 AM

I could never get through a whole PhD on my own especially if it is deep pan. Bit like the Irish pizza - would you like it cut into 4 or 6 pieces, make it 4 I couldn't eat 6!

So, how big is this pi that's hidden in the Great Pyramid and what filling is it? Hope it wasn't found anywhere the pet crem on the way to Duxford.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Pied Piper
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 06:51 AM

Unlikely, as the Flesh blood/Bread Wine simbolism was retoengineered from Mithraism, along with the 25th of December, Mythical birth, shepheards and many other things.

PP


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Keith A at work.
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 07:19 AM

Aftre two flippant posts I would say that there are several old Templar sites in the area, and Hertford was a centre of activity. Templars were imprisoned in Hertford Castle when the movement was proscribed.
That activity here persists into modern times could suggest a physical link in the area. The Templars were once the wealthiest organisation in Christendom, and the treasure disappeared with them when they went underground.
Who knows?
Hertford also has a unique network of underground tunnels linking many old buildings incuding the castle.
Keith.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Keith A o Hertford
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 07:47 AM

Raymond Brown, as we are plugging your paper, perhaps you could plug some of our venues.
Every Monday The Black Horse
First and third Wednesday, The Millstream
Third Sunday afternoon, The White Horse
First Thursday, The Great Eastern
Second Tuesday, The Bell, Benington,
These are all free, and all welcome to listen, join in or perform.
Keith.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 07:54 AM

AND

harriWattsband at Oddfellows Arms Beverley this Friday and its free


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Mrs_Annie
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 09:46 AM

Nobody EVER mentions the sheela-na-gig which is also in the Royston Cave (doesn't fit in with their theories). More info see sheelanagig.org

(yes! I made a blue clicky!)

Annie (born and still living in Royston)


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Lighter at work
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 10:22 AM

Mrs. Annie, kool kave, kool site! A sheela-na-gig.ORG!!
Who'd-a-thunk-it??


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Pied Piper
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 10:55 AM

Great site Annie, I think it's a bit like when you see pictures of the Gundestrup Cauldron in books about Celtic mythology, they never show you the panel with the Elephant.

TTFN
PP


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Lighter at work
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 11:25 AM


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Lighter at work
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 11:27 AM

What the....?! I seen 'em, I tells ya! Elephants on the Cauldron!!! It's Elephant-gate! Elephant-gate!


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 11:35 AM

"sheela-na-gig" I'm surprised she didn't get any more gigs with an act like that!


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Grail Historian
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 05:50 PM

The message from "Raymond Brown at the Mercury" sounds ominous:

"More will be revealed in the hunt for the Grail in forthcoming articles in the Mercury..."

More clues to the whereabouts of the Grail perhaps? I guess if it exists it had to be found sooner or later.

I would like to hear more about what the Illuminati and the Knights Templar have to do with all of this.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 10:53 AM

If the grail is found in Hertfordshire, I hope it'll be full of McMullen's AK !


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Kim C
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 11:13 AM

Da Vinci Code = novel = FICTION


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Bean-Fidhleir
Date: 23 Sep 04 - 07:54 PM

Then there's the theory that, since the term 'Holy Grail' is a translation from French 'Sanct Graal', it actually started out as 'Sangue Royalle' (or similar) and hasn't anything to do with tableware. :-)


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Tweed
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 09:41 AM

I am not a smart man, by any means, but I allus thought the Grail were the blood line obv Christ and not a cup at all. Last I heared they was a fellow living in France who wabz descended from the Merivingians. That theory makes more sense to me az I don't figure the Templars would waste all thar time chasing and guarding a cup.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Raymond Brown
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 10:38 AM

I would love to plug your gigs Kieth
call me at the Mercury on 01992 526 640.
I am away until Oct 1 but would love to chat
same goes for the royston cave - please call me when I get back.
great forum


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: Lighter
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 03:26 PM

"The Da Vinci Code" is partially inspired by the 20-year old book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," by Michael Baigent, which is back in print. They call it "nonfiction," but I wouldn't go quite so far.


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,stacey burling
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 10:35 PM

I am sb from hertford and am in touch with the unconcious part of my brain like lucido DrEaMs and predictions and wishes coming true always. Slap Born with acata going through my hands and wrists. I think the holly grail Is the 3rd coming i belive there jaming in hertford. Big up d hertford massive LOL


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Subject: RE: BS: Holy Grail found in Hertfordshire?
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 02:31 AM

I don't know about holy grail, but we seem to have found holier than thou in Hertford.

Eh Keith?


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