The never-ending search (Holy Grail)

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The never-ending search
By Brendan O'Neill

BBC

Fascination with the Holy Grail has lasted for centuries, and now the Bletchley Park code-breakers have joined the hunt. But what is it that's made the grail the definition of something humans are always searching for but never actually finding?

Could an obscure inscription on a 250-year-old monument in a Staffordshire garden point the way to the Holy Grail - the jewelled chalice reportedly used by Jesus and his disciples at the Last Supper?

That is one theory entertained by Richard Kemp, the general manager of Lord Lichfield's Shugborough estate in Staffs.

Kemp has called in world-renowned code-breakers to try to decipher a cryptic message carved into the Shepherd's Monument on the Lichfield estate.

The monument, built around 1748, features an image of one of Nicholas Poussin's paintings, and beneath it the letters "D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4044765.stm


"D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M." : Maybe this means "You have been had".....

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Do not seek the treasure."

- Soggy Bottom Boys

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Masons will tell you

that they've had it for years, and it is safely kept in one of their Masonic lodges in England.

Sufis might say that the Grail legend is an allegory for what takes place in the human heart when one becomes closer to God: that's the point of alchemy, turning dross into gold-its spiritual and not physical.

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4. "The Grail" is not an actual cup but a Merovignian

bloodline guarded by the Priory of Sion....
Too much Harrison Ford Indiana Jones stuff around....

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8. I agree with the Sufis

[Gnaeus]

3. BBC didn't...

... talk about Python's search for the Grail under the movie part, aren't they proud of Monty Python being British?

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5. See also:Codebreaker scores success in search for the Holy Grail

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1023152&mesg_id=1023152

[Aiptasia]

6. Too much davinci code around...

And I suppose the catholic church substituted mary magdaline for jesus' mom... oh wait?!?!?!

[matcom]

7. there is no "jewelled cup" depicted in The Last Supper

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9. The chalice with the palace?

[nmvisitor]

10. Has the brew that is true /nt

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11. Huh. You sure it's not the flagon with the dragon?

[JitterbugPerfume]

12. mostly it's

the Bull with the sh@@