26 December 2022

Holy Grail

Guarded by the Fisher King, this treasure was quested by Percival, knight of the Order of the Round Table, as described by Chrétien de Troyes & Wolfram von Eschenbach. Etymologically it might derive from sang real, which then later might have turned into san gral. As also Otto Rahn might have guessed, it refers to the holy bloodline of Jesus Christ, who fled Troy:

Around the time Basil the Physician died & Andronikos Komnenos was born, the Order of Solomon's Temple was formed. Shortly after the mentioned emperor got dethroned, they lost control of Jerusalem & the Priory of Sion distinguished from them: After losing their last crusader stronghold, did the remnants of the order join them later that year by moving to Grasburg, to found a new country for their banking activities?

On a pillar in the north portal of Chartres Cathedral, constructed soon after the loss of the holy city, it can be seen with the inscription hic amititur archa cederis: Is it possible the order not only brought the Grail, but also the Ark to Gaul?

Both relics were also quested by Indiana Jones, who might be identified as Prester John, who's the cousin of Percival in the poem. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the relic is found in Goshen, wherefrom it's shipped to Greece, and finally to America:

  • Does the first shipment hint to what Simcha Jacobovici later researched?
  • Does the last shipment imply that relic found its way throughout Europe?

Although Monty Python also suggested the Grail migrated there, Indiana Jones found the relic in nowadays Jordan, where the Ark also might have been hidden: Do the stories about these supposed relics sometimes mix up, or might they simply represent the same relic?

06 December 2022

Madain Salih

In antiquity known as Hegra, similar to Hijra, the site is said to have been carved out by Nabateans. As well as MuhammadSalih preached against polytheism & idolatry: Is Madain actually Medina & are those prophets partial duplicates that fled Petra, as the local research of Dan Gibson suggests?

Nebajoth is the eldest son of Ishmael, who supposedly built the Kaaba & of whom Muslims claim to be descendants. As well as their neighbouring Maccabees, descendants from Isaac, the Nabateans succesfully resisted a Macedon Empire, but officially both of them ultimately became provinces of the Roman Empire: Did Abraham actually rule a once united kingdom?

During what is known as the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba got destroyed, whereby the black rock split into three pieces: Was it actually a Siege of Petra by the Umayyads, whereafter Hashemites took them to the south to build a new sanctuary in a safer spot, which definitely became the new Becca after the Abbasids took power?

In the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones searches for the Holy Grail in the canyon of the Crescent Moon, a symbol of Islam & a scene filmed in Petra:

One of those destructive earthquakes is officially dated right after the defeat of Abd al-Lah ibn al-Zubayr, another one about 330 years earlier, according with one of the chronological shifts of Anatoly Fomenko, so they might be duplicates. Even stronger, he claims Islam only originated about a millenium later, according with the historical research of Florin Diacu, nearly coinciding with the time Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab preached against Sufism: Did he hijack the biography of Salih?

Unlike Maslama ibn Habib, the movement of his compatriot, supporting Ibn Saud, later managed to conquer Mecca, driving the Hashemites & last caliph out of Arabia: Is it a coincidence they only held their royal title in Jordan?