Halloween & The Holy Grail

Chapter excerpt from my upcoming book on Holy Grail coded art and architecture of San Francisco, which I’ve been working on the past few years.  Should be ready for publishing and available through Ingram before Christmas. 

A little known art history fact is that most of the symbolism for Halloween comes from the stories, legends, lore, and traditions surrounding Bran the Blessed and the Green Man and the Holy Grail, the real descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

One of the symbols of the Green Man is a skull with foliage coming out of its mouth. This is Bran the Blessed, a descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Bran knew he was dying after receiving a lethal wound from a poisoned spear in the foot. He ordered his followers to cut off his head and hide it on a secret island or the Tower of London, also known as the White Tower, where legend says the spirit of Bran the Blessed expounds wisdom to this day.   This is where the laughing talking skull of Halloween and Horror movies comes from. 

From satellite images we can see that the Tower of London used to have a wide moat around

it, now grassland, in a u-shape that used to connect to the River Thames.  This would have made the Tower of London, or White Tower, a stand alone island in it’s own right.  My theory about Bran the Blessed’s skull that the skull expounding wisdom for centuries to this day is an allegory for the multiple generations of Bran the Blessed, his descendants. 

Haight Ashbury’s own skull symbol is an album cover and logo for the infamous Haight Ashbury blues folk band the Grateful Dead. The album is Steal Your Face, released in 1974 AD, artist Owsley Stanley.  The skull features a lightening bolt down it’s middle, the lighting bolt being one of the symbols of Jesus Christ and ancient royalty.  The color scheme is blue and red, both symbolic colors of royal bloodlines. If by design or happy accident the Dead’s “Lightening Skull” weaves its own way into the fabric of Haight Ashbury’s multidimensional coded Holy Grail history book.  

Another symbol for Bran the Blessed is the raven, also a Halloween symbol.  The word for Raven in Welsh is Bran.  Bran the Blessed and his family used Ravens as messengers.  Ravens are still kept at the Tower of London to this day as a good luck talisman of Bran the Blessed and his family.  The Tower of London tradition goes that if the ravens were ever to leave then Britain would fall to invaders from without. The ravens’ nests are well kept and their wings are consequently regularly clipped, so they can never fly away.

One of the curious stories of Bran the Blessed is of his Magic Cauldron, another Halloween symbol, which was sought by King Arthur in the famous Welsh poem "Spoils of the Annwfn".  King Arthur journeys to the Celtic Otherworld and successfully retrieves the cauldron, but only seven of his battalion of men survive.  The magic cauldron was later reinvented in literature as the Holy Grail and the cup of plenty or cornucopia, which can be found in mythology across the globe. 

The Knights Templars’ view of history and the people in the Bible is so different from mainstream USA, that their information can be a contentious issue with some people and institutions. This is why the Holy Grail mysteries have been put on the Mythology shelf in the back corner of the paranormal section with the UFOs and Halloween. Yet the truth will out and audiences around the world for more than 1500 years have never stopped loving a well told Holy Grail story.

Yet another Halloween symbol the pumpkin represents Bran’s magical head which kept expounding wisdom and warnings to generations after Bran’s death to this day.   Bran’s magic head or skull is a representation of the Green Man. The Jacolantern is the pumpkin head with lights in it. Light is symbolic of wisdom and enlightenment, or information and education, an allegory for the secret histories that the pumpkin head and Green Man represents.  

The Black Cat is symbolic of Saint Helen, the mother of Constantine who founded the Catholic Church as we know it in 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicea.  One of the temples had a sever snake problem, so Helen imported a dozen cats from Egypt. Those cats are the ancestors of Turkey's famous cat population today.  When the Catholic Church excommunicated the Knight's Templar, Pope Gregory the IX also deemed cats to be demons.  This was not out of superstition, but rather due to a plague, which was spread by the fleas which lived on cats.  Uneducated people listened more to superstition than logic back then as today. 

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