What do you think of the priory of sion?

What do you think of the priory of sion?
I already know everything about it, I just wonder what everyone else thinks None of your answers are right...
History - 4 Answers - 2006-05-05 02:42:25

Best Answer
Another secret society that can only fail to live up to all the speculations about it, simply because literature like Da Vinci Code or Peter Berling's "Children of the Grail" series blew it up way larger than life. I have little doubt that there existed an organisation formed in the Crusades by that name. I don't quite buy the "sang real" theory for the Merowingian dynasty, mostly because of a passage in Einhard's vita of Charlemagne, meant to discredit the last Merowingian kings. Einhard describes them as long-maned barbarians ceremoniously driving an ox cart across the land. This clearly is a remnant of a wotanic rite (long hair and beard, and more likely than not the draft beasts were bulls rather than oxen since this kind of cart rite has been described by Tacitus for the Cimbrian peninsula, too, as a fertility rite - which wouldn't do with castrated bulls). Why would the Merowingians desperately uphold pagan divine descent as their royal legitimation if they could have claimed descent from Christ?

All Answers
Answer 1
the priority of sin? Hell is your own inner demons...
2006-05-05 02:55:39

Answer 2
Something created to atract attentions while other real societies are acting. Orders are created to recruit soldiers. Real elite are hidden under unnamed circle where people are carefully chosen. There is a lot of informaion about it and just a minimal part is real.
2006-05-05 02:57:10

Answer 3
Another secret society that can only fail to live up to all the speculations about it, simply because literature like Da Vinci Code or Peter Berling's "Children of the Grail" series blew it up way larger than life. I have little doubt that there existed an organisation formed in the Crusades by that name. I don't quite buy the "sang real" theory for the Merowingian dynasty, mostly because of a passage in Einhard's vita of Charlemagne, meant to discredit the last Merowingian kings. Einhard describes them as long-maned barbarians ceremoniously driving an ox cart across the land. This clearly is a remnant of a wotanic rite (long hair and beard, and more likely than not the draft beasts were bulls rather than oxen since this kind of cart rite has been described by Tacitus for the Cimbrian peninsula, too, as a fertility rite - which wouldn't do with castrated bulls). Why would the Merowingians desperately uphold pagan divine descent as their royal legitimation if they could have claimed descent from Christ?
2006-05-05 06:49:03

Answer 4
First of all, Charlemagne was NOT a Merovingian. He was from the Carolingian bloodline, a dynasty that started from Pepin of Herstal. And in the book "The Da Vinci Code," Dan Brown explains that they kept their ancestry secret because the Church was trying to hunt them down and remove all evidence about Jesus's descendants. But nobody really knows if Jesus really had children, and since the Prieuré de Sion is a secret organization, nobody knows if it's real. The only Order that actually existed during the Crusades are the Knights Templar.
2006-05-05 14:17:57