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Myth of the Month 19: The Holy Grail -- pt. 2

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Three Different Schools of Interpretation of the Myth of the Holy Grail

Modern scholars have tried to uncover what the holy grail really represents. Most of them draw in some way upon the fact that there were secret words attached to the grail. There is some secret doctrine that is passed on along with the grail, which these interpretations understand not as nincantatory words or invocations, but as a hidden truth. And this has spurred on then the true modern quest for the grail,. The quest to unmask it and to expose the real meaning.

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