The Holy Graile

by Hamilton, Claire

• ISBN13: 9780340781470
• ISBN10: 0340781475
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Table of Contents

Introduction What is the holy Grail?	1	(1)
The earliest story	2	(8)
Application	8	(2)
An ancient wisdom	10	(12)
The Four Hallows	12	(1)
Celtic cauldrons	13	(1)
Bran the Blessed	14	(1)
The oracular head	15	(1)
Preiddeu Annwn	16	(1)
The cult of the head	16	(1)
The Maimed King	17	(1)
The Cailleach or the Dark Goodess	18	(1)
The Damsels of the Wells	19	(1)
Application	20	(2)
The Grail Christianized	22	(9)
Joseph of Arimathea	23	(1)
The Cup of Christ	23	(1)
The Queste del Saint Graal	24	(1)
Lancelot and the Maiden of the Grail	25	(1)
Galahad comes to Arthur's Court	25	(1)
The Lance of Longinus	26	(1)
The Dolorous Stroke	27	(1)
Joseph of Arimathea comes to Glastonbury	27	(1)
Application	28	(3)
Grail quests	31	(12)
Gawain	32	(1)
Gawain's quest	32	(2)
Lancelot's quest	34	(1)
Bors's quest	35	(1)
Dindrane's quest	36	(2)
Perceval's quest	38	(1)
Galahad's quest	38	(2)
Application	40	(3)
The Gnostic Grail	43	(12)
Mary Magdalene	44	(1)
The Nag Hammadi Scrolls	44	(2)
A spiritual resurrection	46	(1)
The Cathars	47	(1)
The Albigensian Crusade	48	(1)
Arthurian legend - a secret code?	49	(1)
A home for the Grail	50	(1)
The cult of Isis	51	(1)
The Black Madonna	52	(1)
Application	53	(2)
The Templars' Grail	55	(11)
The Knights Templars	55	(1)
Mysterious origins	56	(1)
An influential force	57	(1)
Free thinkers	57	(1)
Strange rituals	58	(1)
Persecution of the Templars	59	(1)
The curse of the Templars	59	(1)
Treasures of the Templars	60	(1)
The Templars as a mystical sect in Perlesvaus	60	(1)
The Templars in Parzival	61	(1)
Eastern origins	62	(2)
Application	64	(2)
Symbolism of the Grail	66	(13)
The Four Elements	66	(1)
The Spear	67	(1)
The Round Table	67	(1)
Gwenddolau's chessboard	68	(1)
The Fisher King	69	(1)
Pelles or Pellam (see also the Fisher King)	69	(1)
Garlon	70	(1)
The Waste Land	70	(1)
The Castle of Corbenic	70	(1)
The Grail Maiden	71	(1)
Feirefiz	71	(1)
Prester John	71	(1)
The Ship of Solomon	72	(1)
Sarras	73	(1)
The Grail chapel	73	(1)
Hermits	74	(1)
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux	74	(1)
The Cailleach	75	(1)
The Castle of Maidens	75	(1)
The number nine	76	(1)
Application	77	(2)
The quest continues	79	(9)
Hitler's abortive quest	80	(1)
The Grail as bloodline	81	(1)
Beneath the Temple of Solomon	82	(1)
The Templars mysteries	82	(2)
The hidden Grail	84	(1)
Application	84	(4)
The Grail Today	88	(8)
The ending of the Grail story	89	(1)
The yellow-haired boy	90	(1)
The Hags of Gloucester	90	(1)
Priestesses of the Otherworld	90	(1)
The Castle of Marvels	91	(1)
Feminine vengeance	92	(1)
The severed head	92	(1)
Healing the Waste Land	92	(2)
Application	94	(2)
References	96	(1)
Select bibliography and discography	97	(2)
Index	99