Summary
Otto Rahn: The Grail Crusade
The Grail Crusade is a daring book that popularized the legend of the Cathars and the Holy Grail. The first edition appeared in Germany in 1933, based on Rahn's explorations of the Pyrenean caves, where a sect of heretical Cathars sought refuge during the 13th century. The book has since been translated into many languages, spreading its influence on authors such as Trevor Ravenscroft and Jean-Michel Angebert, but it has not yet been translated into Serbian. Just as German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann used Homer's "Iliad" to locate Troy, Rahn believed Wolfram von Eschenbach's medieval poem "Parsifal" held the key to solving the Cathar mystery and the secret location of the Holy Grail. Ran believed that "Parsifal" was not a work of imagination, but a historical explanation of how the Cathars and Templars guarded the Grail, the "stone from the stars." The crusade that the Vatican led against the Cathars turned into a war in which Rome opposed love and in which the church triumphed over the pure faith of the Cathars with fire and sword.
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