miércoles, 24 de septiembre de 2008

Royal Blood

Sometimes I like to play with words. I am living in Spain, a country known for its influence in the development of the catholic church. Inquisition was a well known spanish activity long before Hitler and his companions decided to clean the world. Is it a coincidence that German army boys were of great help in pre-Franco's Spain?

The game with words has to do with the spanish translation of Royal Blood: Sangre Real.

Let us go back to the inquisition. Not the Spanish one, but the one against "liberation movements" in the south of France, the one of 1184. "Ad abolidam" opened the war against terrorism, in those days called heresy. Among the extremely dangerous groups were the Cathars, Humilati and Arnoldists.

Those groups were not without criticism against the papal leadership from Rome, so Rome came with a strategy to unite its flock in a struggle against those terrorists. And this is where the royal blood came in, the holy blood, the blood of Jesus Christ. Those damned heretics were endangering the power of Rome! What is the most powerful weapon in a war against this form of terrorism, in a time that mass destruction and mass communication did not yet exist? What could be more powerful than the blood of Jesus Christ himself?

A war against those who did not respect the leadership of Rome could be most effective if it would be in the name of protection! Protection of the holy blood, protection of the royal blood, protection of el Sangre Real!

People in those days communicated with the spoken word, the written word was only for the happy few. It is not so strange that Sangre Real was changed into San Gréal and subsequently travelled to England as the Holy Grail, the dish that was used by Jesus during his last supper.

Needless to repeat all the tales, stories, books and later movies that were made up to justify the travels to the Holy Land with the liberty to destroy everyone and everything on the way to the salvation of the Holy Grail.

Royal blood lead to many wars, like the San Gréal did. The Holy Grail was a nice excuse to conquer the world, they called it a "crusade", it maybe is the oldest conspiracy theory and it might be still valid today.

The establishment of the state of Israel might even fit into it and wouldn't that explain why the strong believers in the USA are so in favor of its existence? The Holy Land came under their control over the blood of those who were the victims of the Nazis. How much more powerful is the blood of 6 million compared to the blood of one?

The war was won in 1948. Or is it still going on? Was the word "crusade" incidentally chosen by George W. Bush before the US attacked Iraq?

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