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The Golden Fleece
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1. Roscher, Encyclopedia, art. "Golden Fleece," calls the Golden Fleece the
"Classical Grail."
2. See Reinach, Orpheus, pp. 58-59.
3. Re: Ilhomber, see Peyrat, Vol. I, Civilisation romaine, p. 127; Abellio, Vol. I, p.
xv. Re: the Phoenician settlements in the vicinity of Narbonne, see Movers, II,
2, pp. 644-654. According to Tacitus, Germania XLIII, a priest in Germany
whose name appears to have been Alcis offered sacrifices to the two
divinities, Castor and Pollux, while dressed as a woman. Regarding Orpheus,
see Reinach's Orpheus, p. 122, and Loisy, Ch. II.
4. Wolfram clearly states that the Grail was a stone. He calls it—erroneously—a
Lapsis exillis, which is taken from Lapsis ex coelis; according to this legend, the
"Gral" fell from Lucifer's crown to Earth during the fall of the angels, and
landed directly on Montsegur in the Pyrenees. Kampers, p. 86 and his notes at
the foot of p. 121. Also see Wechssler, p. 167. Re: the link between the
Argonauts and a "cup," see Kampers, p. 72.
5. Kampers, p. 71; "Flegetanis," Parzival, p. 454. "According to Wolfram, a
Jewish astronomer in Toledo named Flegetanis is the source of the legend of the
Grail. Over the ages, many have been intrigued by the character's name, which
translates as "familiar with stars" in Persian. Others have identified the character
with Thabit ben Gorah, an alchemist who lived in Baghdad between 826 and
901; still others assert that the origin of the name is "Felek Thani," the guardian
of the planet Mercury in Arabic. Surprisingly, Flegetanis is a family name in
the Emporda, in the northern Catalonian region of Spain.
6. Kampers, p. 71.
7. The Ciste Ficorini is preserved in Rome in the Vatican Museum. See Loisy, p.
67. Re: Pythagoras: Parzival, p. 773.
Gwion's Cup
1. Pythagoras of Samos, 580-496 B.C.
2. Dispater: ah dite patre prognatos (Caesar, VI, 17).
3. Ptolemy: Geography, Vol. II, 10. All sources for the march of the Volcae
Tectosages through Greece can be found in de Vic and Vaissette, Histoire,
Vols. I and II.
4. Ernest Renan, La Vie de Jesus, p. 82. The Manicheans considered both Christ
and Manes as prophets who consoled humanity.
5. The head of the Buddha discovered in an Iberian burial chamber is on display
in the Museum of Rennes. According to Alexandre de Bernay, two traitors
were reponsible for the death of Alexander: Jovispater and Antipater;