Secret_History

316 The Secret History of the World
Medea guided Jason to the fleece by night and used her drugs to send the guardian
dragon to sleep, and then, carrying the fleece with her, made her way back to the
Argos with Jason.
Curiously, the name “Pelleas” occurs in a number of Grail Stories. The
important thing is, however, that we have a sneaking suspicion that this Colchis is
also the Hesperides - the Land of the Hyperboreans. We also wonder about the
possible relationship between “Arcadia” and Colchis. If the ancient “Athenians” of
Plato’s tale were not actually from Athens, as we know it, then it is also possible
that a far more ancient “Arcadia” existed as well.
Why Perceval?
At this point we are brought back to face the puzzle of “Why Perceval”? Was it
indeed, a hint from the hand of Eleanor of Aquitaine and her daughter Marie de
Champagne, to embody something that was generally known at the time, into a
corpus of stories by giving the hero of those stories the name “Perceval”?
As it happens so often, a series of funny synchronous events brought the issue
into sharp focus and gave me the key. I had been pondering the question for weeks
on end, searching through etymologies, mythologies, genealogies, and a host of
other references, none of which truly dealt with what I felt to be the central issue
of the name. Yes, I read endless esoteric interpretations, and most of it is
nonsense. I read books about the “Pierced Eye” of Dagobert, the “Merovingian
Marvels”, and the Sinclair Solipsisms, and other absurd notions, and it was all
piling to heaven with wishful thinking of every would-be “savior” or claimant to
the role of the “Desired Knight”. At the end of the day, none of these things really
answered the question: Why Perceval?
So, there I sat, at the end of the line. No more books, no more references to
search, no more hope for the answer to my question: Why Perceval? At that very
moment a tremendous blast of lighting struck nearby, followed almost
immediately by thunder that shook my house and nearly made me jump out of my
skin. My first thought was for my dog who was terrified of thunder, “Poor Percy!”,
I thought. And as I thought the thought, I received the answer. You see, we call
him “Percy”, but his name (given to him by my children some years earlier when
they were avidly reading Greek mythology), is Perseus. With that one realization,
the biggest part of the puzzle fell into place.
Perseus Pen Dragon - the dragon slayer par-excellence! The beheader of the
Gorgon; the slayer of the sea monster, the rescuer of Andromeda the “Ruler of
Men”; the child of a widow, impregnated by a god; brought up in isolation, hidden
away from his birthright, gauche and simple, sent to do an impossible task in
hopes that it would kill him; Perseus, the babe fished out of the ocean with his
mother, by a fisherman, brother to a king - a “fisher king”; Perseus, gifted with the
initiations of the “witches”, of the Hyperboreans, who obtains the “eye of Horus”,
of the Graea; Perseus, aided by Athena, to whom he presents the head of the
Gorgon, from whose blood sprang the winged horse Pegasus, with all the elements
of the Scythian story, right down to the Scythian mirror, and like the Urim and
Thummim of the Levites, Athena places the head of the Gorgon, the prophesying
Head of Bran or John the Baptist, on her breastplate. Perseus uses the head of the