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Introduction
The Grail as a Metaphor of Creation
One way to define The Holy Grail is to see it as an ancient
metaphor for the creation of the universe. Here the concave
stone or cauldron holds the elements necessary to
create the world in millions of iterations. The penetration
of this mystery leads to a higher state of consciousness
and the Grail ikon becomes the central object of a
powerful and transformative initiation ceremony. Those
who see the Grail as a simple material chalice, of the type
encountered by Monty Python or Indiana Jones, will miss
the point entirely. The quests conducted by the
legendary knights of King Arthur’s Round Table were
not quests for an actual chalice. Instead they were quests
for the cosmological information hidden in the symbolic
Grail and for the psychological transformation promised
to anyone who penetrates its mysteries. 20
The writers of the Middle Ages suggest the Grail is
many things. Each Knight and character in the saga held
a different view of it. It could be a cauldron, a dish, a
stone or a manuscript. It could appear on a cushion, accompanied
by a procession of angels carrying a bleeding
lance and a golden dish. It could be transported by
20 In America pumpkins are used but in England the lowly Turnip—quite
similar to the size and shape of a human skull—does the job. For an
overview of the survival of old customs see Wind, Edgar. Survival of
Paganism. New York, Norton, 1976. Also: Chadwick, Nora. The Celts.
London: Pelican, 1970. p. ix and Aveni, Anthony F. “Archaeoastronomy.”
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. #4. Princeton:
Academic Press, 1981. For the conservative view see: Herrity, M. Irish
Passage Graves. Dublin: Irish University Press,1974. Also: Herrity M. and
Eogan. G. Ireland in Prehistory. RKP, 1976. The worship of the concave
stone, and its use in astronomy and navigation, seems to have grown from
the cave cultures to the pastoral hunting and fishing cultures along the
shores of the North Atlantic until it was formally housed within the fabric
of astronomically aligned cairns and henges with integral arches and
surrounding embankments.
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