I Need Help To Make A Decision, Please, Guys!: )

Ooooooooops, I've posted this discussion twice, by accident. So far, in the other discussion, we're on Grail 2 - Chest 3, so your "treasured" vote, lol, puts the Chest two in the lead.

Thank you for your input and Brightest Blessings.
Grail 2 - Chest 4

That's why I put it to the vote, Lakota. I've seen a pewter rose bowl which I thought might be appropriate for the time setting, and I think I would stick purple stones around it just below the fluted top. Then, I would like to make a purple, velvet pouch to put it in.

So, I'll take your vote as Grail? Thank you for your input and Brightest Blessings, my friend. I've got two discussions the same going here, so having to add them together and show the running total between the two. lol.

Vote - Grail

Grail 3 - Chest 5

Yes vote for the grail It sounds so lovely I wish I was there to win it
hugs

Lol... you're welcome to pop over the pond and compete!:)

I would pop over the pond if I had the money maybe if our business gets going good I can do that some day hugs

Or you could stow away on the QE2! lol.

hm now there is a thought but to get me to Florida would be a big if!

I have friends who live in Fort Walton Keys in Florida, and they have a yacht, as well as a camper. lol. Maybe they'd come pick you up? he he he

Do you know how many miles they would have to travel? over 2400 one way I dont think anyone would do that to let me stow away on a ship lol hugs and thanks for trying to make it possible hugs

ok I see they have a yahut but I dont know abo ut coming all the way to England ina yahot lol

python sorry xx

I love the Monty Python version of the Holy Grail, especially the Black Knight and the Giant Rabbit Scenes... they made me laugh so much! I've got the DVDs of both that and The Life of Brian which is really funny as well. I also have the videos, so you could say that I'm a fan, I guess.

Anyway, back to the topic in hand. he he he. I've posted this discussion twice, so I'm having to add votes together. So, as it was, before your vote, Grail 6 - Chest 7, you've now tied us up! lolol.

Thank you for your vote, my friend and Brightest Blessings.

Vote - Grail

Grail 7 - Chest 7

Yes, my mistake Tammy. Somehow, I posted the discussion twice, so having to run back and forth between the two. lol.

You voted chest in the other one and it has been added. Thank you for your support and Brightest Blessings.

Yes, it is very romantic and mysterious, MsTickle. Thank you for your vote and Brightest Blessings, my friend.

Vote... Grail

Grail 8 - Chest 7

So are you telling me that the stories of "visions" of the Grail on Glastobury Tor, are not true? Merlin, indeed had collected a haul of objects which were sacred to him, so why do you think he wouldn't entertain the Grail? If you read Bernard Cornwells Quest for the Grail trilogy though... it was nowhere near Glastonbury, so that would make your observations correct. It was in the hands of Thomas of Hookton's (so called) father, who was a priest, in Dorset. Then it was stolen by the French, and was well sought after by Monks. Eventually, Thomas found it near the church where his father had been priest, and it was nothing but a pottery bowl, which he tossed into the sea, off the Dorset coast. Now... what, I ask, do we believe? I still like the idea of it. lol.

As for the Saxon community, they were Anglo Saxons which as you probably know were a mix of traditions. Maybe if you looked your surname up, you might find it's an Anglo Saxon name? he he he. More study for you.

Brightest Blessings, my friend, and thank you again for such interesting input. +

Vote... Chest

Grail 8 - Chest 8

Actually, I have a small confession, my real surname has Slavic origins, and my family history starts around Dracula country! I suppose that's why I look like Fritz Langs Nosferatu, but with a ginger wig!
At the last count, there were 9 positive Grail sites in Britain, and, at least, 70 across Europe - I suspect that it would be in Rochdale, as that is the centre of the universe, in my little mind, anyway.
My thoughts are that if the stories of Arthur and Merlin existed for 300 years without any mention of a Grail, and then get added in a revised book, where the original didn't bother to mention it, then it was either unimportant (which seems unlikely), or made up. Whether the cup from the last supper, or the cup used to catch Jesus' blood on the cross, I suspect it would have stayed around Judea or Byzantium.
It's just those damn Catholic priests of the Middle Ages messing with pagan folklore again.
According to the 12t century writers, the grail was kept by the Fisher King, Pyrus, whose daughter was Lancelots wife, prior to being brought to Camelot. MAkes a great story, though.
All the best.

It was apparently taken to Glastonbury by Joseph of Arimethea, and according to legend, because of the red tinge to the water there, is buried under the Chalice Well in Glastonbury. But, as you say... that's another story, and why was it not added to the original legends? I think it was Lancelot who was supposed to have had the vision of it, on the Tor. I'm not sure on that one without reading up on it again, but one of them was supposed to have seen it at the altar... it could even have been Uther.

I have to confess that, since reading The Mists of Avalon, Uther is my hero!!!:)