Several threads, including pre-Christian mythology, veneration of relics in Christian tradition, and medieval literature, have combined over the centuries into the Holy Grail metaphor of today.
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The various readings of this national myth can tell us a lot about our cultural and political time and place.
Is the Grail the chalice from the Last Supper – or the Crucifixion? Does it contain the elixir of life? Or is it Mary Magdalene’s womb?
As a fifth Indiana Jones film is announced, what Indy got right – and wrong – in his earlier exploits …
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