Holy Grail Riddle Solution 'To Be Revealed'

Scotsman ^ | Nov. 24, 2003 | Katherine Haddon

[nickcarraway]

A team of Second World War codebreakers was today poised to reveal the solution to a cryptic 18th century riddle which is rumoured to reveal the location of the Holy Grail.

Oliver Lawn and his wife Sheila, the leaders of the team, are now in their 80s but were posted at the codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, during the Second World War.

The couple, who worked on cracking the Enigma code, have spent the last seven months deciphering the significance of a sequence of letters on the Shepherd’s Monument in the Shugborough Estate in Staffordshire.

The marble slab, located in the garden at the ancestral home of the Earl of Lichfield, features a carved image of a Nicolas Poussin painting with the letters D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M. underneath.

The organisers of the project have shrouded the team’s findings in secrecy ahead of today’s announcement at Bletchley but legend has it that the inscription could reveal the whereabouts of the Holy Grail.

According to myth, the Grail was used either by Jesus at the Last Supper or to catch his blood during the Crucifixion.

The quest for the Grail became a popular theme in art, inspiring Thomas Malory’s poem Le Morte D’Arthur, which told the story of King Arthur’s search, as well as Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal.

John Cleese, Michael Palin et al parodied such earnest renderings in the cult classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail. More recently, Harrison Ford joined forces with Sean Connery to find the Holy Grail in the action movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

The findings will be revealed at a media briefing at Bletchley Park at 11am.

[nickcarraway]

ping

[Fatalis]

Heads up.

[Johnnyboy2000]

Is Geraldo going to be there to open the secret vault?

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[RichLane]

Wow thanks for the post! Now I'm going to be on my seat looking for the fallow up please post more as info becomes available.

[Petronski]

Some call me "Tim."

[KOZ.]

lol! and the silly thing is that the entire world will be watching for hours, as nothing is revealed.

[Clemenza]

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[Petruchio]

reference

[Betis70]

I bet it is hidden in the Castle Anthrax.

[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

Curiosity Book Mark

[Betis70]

What ... is your favorite colour?

"Blue, no I mean red ... ahhhhhhhh!"

[bonfire]

ditto here

[thoughtomator]

I thought the whole point was that you weren't supposed to find it!

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Harrison Ford joined forces with Sean Connery to find the Holy Grail in the action movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Right. Remember what happened to the guy who touched it?

Okay, who wants to go first?

[KellyAdmirer]

I have it on good authority that the meaning is as follows:

"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."

[Clemenza]

See #9

[nickcarraway]

I forgot.

[Baraonda]

Leaving fingerprint

[Betis70]

He chose ... badly.

[CobaltBlue]

11 a.m. what day?

[Johnnyboy2000]

It is silly!lol

[glock rocks]

Tim?

[bonfire]

Check your link. Not working

[glock rocks]

Corrected link to another article on this subject

... just washed my hands and can't do a thing with em.

[RichLane]

"Your using coconuts! You got two empty halves of coconuts and your baning them together"

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

LOL

One of the best lines in the movie :-)

[Petronski]

http://www.meta-religion.com/Archaeology/Europe/ancient_code_stumps.htm

[KOZ.]

Okay, who wants to go first?

oh c'mon, you know the rules. the nazi always goes first...then the hot blonde nazi.....

[26lemoncharlie]

Is this something like Polish Handgrenades, Grumpky, Stuffed Cabbages, Hunky Handgrenades!! Hell I make them all the time!! Does anyone want the Anchient Hunky Secret to great Hunky Handgrenades??

[JRandomFreeper]

I'll have to move it again.... Sigh....

/john

[Petronski]

Does anyone want the Anchient Hunky Secret to great Hunky Handgrenades??

Don't precook the rice.

[RebelTex]

The Holy Grail has been lost to the world for millennia, yet many have found it.

One has only to look into one's own heart and discover God's presence and see Christ's light, for it is that vessel which contains both which is the Holy Grail.

And if that vessel is found empty, then it can be filled if one seeks the Truth, or remain empty and meaningless.

JMHO

[bad company]

Naughty, naughty Zoot.

[BrianLocke]

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

African or European?

[investigateworld]

European or African?

[bad company]

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

African or European?

[Betis70]

I wonder if it will make that AFI "Most Memorable Quotes"? It's one I actually use somewhat frequently.

[Johnnyboy2000]

African of European?

[P-Marlowe]

ARTHUR:

There! Look!

LAUNCELOT:

What does it say?

GALAHAD:

What language is that?

ARTHUR:

Brother Maynard! You are a scholar.

MAYNARD:

It's Aramaic!

GALAHAD:

Of course! Joseph of Arimathea!

LAUNCELOT:

'Course!

ARTHUR:

What does it say?

MAYNARD:

It reads, 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of aaaaaagggh'.

ARTHUR:

What?

MAYNARD:

'...The Castle of aaaaaagggh'.

BEDEVERE:

What is that?

MAYNARD:

He must have died while carving it.

LAUNCELOT:

Oh, come on!

MAYNARD:

Well, that's what it says.

ARTHUR:

Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve 'aaaaaggh'. He'd just say it!

MAYNARD:

Well, that's what's carved in the rock!

GALAHAD:

Perhaps he was dictating.

[Johnnyboy2000]

Couldn't resist.

[kezekiel]

Let me dispel the mystery: It doesn't exist. It's superstition, like the magic bones of old dead saints, weeping images, and the like. None of this stuff can contain the power of Christ, like some kind of holy residue. Jesus saves. The rest is pagan bunk.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Oh crap!

That sounds an awful lot like a physics question.

You do realize that I got a C+ in the only physics course I ever took, don't you?

And this wasn't some complex specialty class intended for science majors, like Quantum Mechanics or Astrophysics. It was basically a prerequisite survey course for dumb-asses such as myself, whose sole concern was not looking like a complete and utter retard.

[kb2614]

I WANT TO FACE THE PERIL!!!!!!

PLEASE LET ME FACE THE PERIL!!!!!!

[bad company]

What is your favorite color?

[nopardons]

bttt

[shibumi]

A European or African swallow?

(I'd mention the French swallow, but Bubba might choke on his cigar.)

How's that for a mixed metaphor?

[nopardons]

Hungarian handgrenades?