Who or what is the Holy Grail??

Question

Anyone can post an opinion..! ^_^

Answer 1

A myth devised to scatter the Knights of the Round Table to send them on a fruitless quest and cause the downfall of Camelot.

Answer 2

Read Raihan J's answer, then add the following:

The grail legends in the King Arthur stories may have been derived from the earlier Celtic myths concerning a vessel of plenty that constantly fed the people. In the later worship of Mithras, a god widely worshiped by Roman Men, particularly soldiers, the Crater, a large bowl much like a chalice with handles, was held sacred and was used in their communal meals. Both of these ideas may have added to the myth of the Grail.

The Bloodline theory, which was popularized by but nor invented by Dan Brown in the DiVinci Code, is the belief that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and that they had a child. After the Crucifixion, Mary and Joseph of Arimethia brought the child to Europe. This child was the Grail, because she carried the blood of Christ in her veins.

Personally, I believe that looking for the Grail is the point of the quest. Anytime we do something for another person without thought of self, but ultimately benefit not only the other person but ourselves, we are on a grail quest. With this idea in mind, watch THE FISHER KING and INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. By the way, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL is a farce. They never find the grail because they don't really know what it is or why they are looking for it. The one time they thing the have found it, it is a false grail.

Answer 3

The holy grail is the cup Jesus drank out of at the last supper. Some believe that it is bloodline of Jesus, but there is very little evidence to support it. It makes for an interesting book and movie though.

Answer 4

The Holy Grail is the cup that Jesus drank out of at the last supper, is as my understanding. But I'm up to being slightly off the mark.

Answer 5

The Holy Grail is generally considered to be the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper and the one used by Joseph of Arimathea to catch his blood as he hung on the cross. This significance, however, was introduced into the Arthurian legends by Robert de Boron in his verse romance Joseph d'Arimathie (sometimes also called Le Roman de l'Estoire dou Graal), which was probably written in the last decade of the twelfth century or the first couple of years of the thirteenth. In earlier sources and in some later ones, the grail is something very different. The term "grail" comes from the Latin gradale, which meant a dish brought to the table during various stages (Latin "gradus") or courses of a meal. In Chrétien and other early writers, such a plate is intended by the term "grail." Chrétien, for example, speaks of "un graal," a grail or platter and thus not a unique item. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival presents the grail as a stone which provides sustenance and prevents anyone who beholds it from dying within the week. In medieval romance, the grail was said to have been brought to Glastonbury in Britain by Joseph of Arimathea and his followers. In the time of Arthur, the quest for the Grail was the highest spiritual pursuit. For Chrétien, author of Perceval and his continuators (four works take up the task of completing the work that Chrétien left unfinished, two of which are anonymous, one is by Mannesier, and a fourth is by Gerbert de Montreuil), Perceval is the knight who must achieve the quest for the Grail. For other French authors, as for Malory, Galahad is the chief Grail knight, though others (Perceval and Bors in the Morte d'Arthur) do achieve the quest. Tennyson is perhaps the author who has the greatest influence on the conception of the Grail quest for the modern English-speaking world through his Idylls and his short poem "Sir Galahad". However, James Russell Lowell's "The Vision of Sir Launfal", one of the most popular of nineteenth-century American poems gave to generations a democratized notion of the Grail quest as something achievable by anyone who is truly charitable. The notion that the Grail story originated in fertility myths was popularized by Jessie Weston in her book From Ritual to Romance, which was used by T. S. Eliot in the writing of The Waste Land. Eliot's poem, in turn, influenced many of the important novelists of his and succeeding generations, including Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

Answer 6

The Holy Grail was the cup that Jesus and the disciples drank from at the last supper

Answer 7

Something unbiblical that I don't care about.

However I saw a painting of someone putting the blood of Christ in a golden cup as it was falling when he was being crucified.

Maybe that will give u some answers.

Answer 8

Depends on who you ask, some say its a blood line, some say it was the cup he drank from at the last supper...I think it's a movie....a Monty Python movie....

Answer 9

A myth that making some authors & film makers very rich.

Answer 10

I think its a myth created by people to give the impression of immortality.