Some neat little tidbits I found on the Merovingian sorcerer kings of France.

[icymist]

In 1985 I read a book that seemed to me at the time to be blasphemous. The book was called "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and it suggested that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and that their bloodline survived in Western Europe.1 The word "sangraal" had, it seems, been misunderstood. When the word was broken after the "n" (san graal) it was thought to mean "Holy Grail" but if it was broken after the "g" it rendered "sang raal," which in Old French seems to mean "blood royal." We are now faced with a legend that says that Mary Magdalene brought the "blood royal" to the coast of France in 42 A.D. One does not carry the "blood royal" in an ointment jar with a lid. The blood of kings is carried in the veins of a child. And the "vessel" that once contained the "sang raal" was not an artifact, but rather, a woman --the Magdalene herself--the mother of a royal offspring.

Suddenly the "Grail" myth takes on an entirely different shape. No wonder the knights in armor sought in vain for the elusive artifact. The mistaken object of their search was an artifact when it should have been a woman. It is in restoring the "Bride" that the sacred King is healed. The "chalice" is an ancient symbol for the sacred feminine and the ancient goddesses are often associated with the "Vesica Piscis"--the () shape that is identified in the Greek New Testament gematria with "h Magdalhnh," the epithet given to the Mary who was identified with "the tower/stronghold" in the prophetic book of Micah.2

A number of legends associate the Merovingian kings with the royal bloodline of Jesus and Magdalene. One of their myths is that the ancestress of the Merovingians was a mermaid and another says that the mother of Merovee' was impregnated by a sea monster. In each of these myths, the prevailing kernal of truth seems to be that this ancestry is "half man, half fish." Since Christ was known to early Christians as the "ICHTHYS" and Mary Magdalene was identified with the shape known as the "Vessel of the Fish," I believe that the ancestral mythologies of the Merovingians refer to their royal heritage. Bizarre as this conclusion may seem, it rests on the fact that myths are often vehicles for veiled truths that are too dangerous to be revealed literally.

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[winyanstaz]

1. Ok I shall stick my neck out here and let some family secrets out...

I am a descendant of a Merovingian king...one of the ancient Sorcerer Kings of France. Also of 11 royal families on the French side..and two chiefs (one was a Huron war chief one was a McKmaq chief) on the Native American side.
My people come from the area of france where Mary Magdalene was supposed to have came to..and directly across from at area on the world map..is where my ancestors fled during the French revolution and some even before...to the New Brunswick area and the Mc'kmaq people. (known as the Dawn people) there are many ways of spelling the name.
One interesting thing of the Mc'kmaq is the hats worn by the women are very simular to egyption headdresses. At one time the tribe split into two tribes and one kept the name of Mc'kmaq and the other took the name of their high priest...Malicite. Which is interesting as there was a jewish priest by that same name.
The Mormons believe the Native Americans are of the lost tribes of Israel.
My older sisters name is Rosemary. As a lot of symbols for Mary Magdalene was the rose..I find that interesting.
and my name means..from the line of Mary.
My mother named me without knowing at the time that about every 135 years in my family tree...is a woman by the name of Magdeline..which means in french...from the line of Mary. I am the one for this time I guess. Although my name is not Magdeline...it is an English version of the name and also means from the line of Mary.
The ancestors spoken about in that movie the Da vinci code are found in my family tree as well.
Here is where it gets interesting to me....
The Morning star is the symbol of the McKmaq Nation...
In the bible...Jesus is called..The Morning Star. (so is Satan in another place but since that place was written much later..I dont buy it)
The Morning Star is also called "The Dawn Horse."
When I saw the unicorn in my first controlled astral projection where I was able to move between the planes (always before I had only projected close to my physical body)..I thought I was seeing a white horse until it got up close...
He was translucent but filled with moving bubbles of light..every color was there but all together they were a bright lavender white..and they flowed out of his body as he danced and sang and formed "wings" that reminded me of chiffon floating and fluttering in the air around him.
I could not look directly at his "Horn" but I could see a little of the base and I knew what it was.
Looking into his eyes was like falling out into the universe.
I think native americans would have called a unicorn a horse...they also called horses "dogs" ..as they had no word for "horse".
The Mountain Spirits told me the name of the unicorn in a separate vision in 1984 at Big Sky Montana.
They said: "He is the bright and the beautiful..he is the Morning Star."
I was given the Morning Star in 1983. He ran into my chest like a mist.
To this day..I have a fully formed pentagram on the palm of my left hand ever since the day I was given The Morning Star. That is also the time that I began being able to see energy fields.
On my right breast I have a tiny red cross (sort of distorted now I am older :P ) which is a birthmark.
What does it all mean? Well I am still finding out :) and I am open to suggestions.

[icymist]

2. Here's some light reading for you.....

Merovingian Dynasty (476-750)

The Merovingians were a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled a frequently fluctuating area in parts of present-day France and Germany from the 5th to the 8th century AD. They were sometimes referred to as the "long-haired kings" by contemporaries, for their symbolically unshorn hair (traditionally the tribal leader of the Franks wore their hair long, while the warriors were trimmed short).

The Merovingian dynasty owes its name to Merovech (sometimes Latinized as Meroveus or Merovius), leader of the Salian Franks from about 447 to 457, and emerges into wider history with the victories of Childeric I (reigned about 457 - 481) against the Visigoths, Saxons and Alamanni. Childeric's son Clovis I went on to unite most of Gaul north of the Loire around 486.

He won the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alamanni in 496, on which occasion he adopted his wife's Catholic faith, and decisively defeated the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse in the Battle of Vouillé in 507. On his death, Clovis partitioned his kingdom among his four sons, according to Frankish custom.

Over the next two centuries, this tradition would continue. Even when multiple Merovingian kings ruled, the kingdom - not unlike the late Roman Empire - was conceived of as a single realm ruled collectively by several kings and the turn of events could result in the reunification of the whole realm under a single king.

The Merovingian Mythos
Its Symbolic Significance and its Roots in the Ancient Kingdom of Atlantis
by Tracy R. Twyman

The Frankish King Dagobert II, and the Merovingian dynasty from which he came, have been romantically mythologized in the annals of both local legend and modern mystical pseudo-history, but few have understood the true meaning and origins of their alluring mystery. The mystique that surrounds them includes attributions of saintliness, magical powers (derived from their long red hair), and even divine origin, stemming from their supposed descent from the one and only Jesus Christ. However, the importance of the divine origin of the Merovingians, and the antiquity from whence it comes, has never to this author's knowledge been fully explored by any writer or historian. As Boyd Rice and I will explain in more detail in our forthcoming book, we have uncovered mountains of evidence which indicates that the origins of the Merovingian race, and the mystery that surrounds them, lies ultimately with a race of beings, "Nephilim," or "Fallen Angels," who created mankind as we know him today, and with a civilization, far more ancient than recorded history, from which came all of the major arts and sciences that are basic to civilizations everywhere, even unto today. As we intend to show, all of the myths and symbolism that are associated with this dynasty can, in fact, be traced back to this earlier civilization. It is known, in some cultures, as Atlantis, although there are many names for it, and it is the birthplace of agriculture, astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy, navigation, architecture, language, writing, and religion. It was also the source of the first government on Earth - monarchy. And the first kings on Earth were the gods.

Their race was known by various names. In Greece, the Annodoti. In Sumeria, the Annunaki. In the Celtic lore, the Tuatha de Danaan. In the Semetic scriptures (Torah, Talmud, Old Testament, and other Apocryphal texts like the Book of Enoch), they are called The Nephilim, "The Sons of God," or the Watchers. They are described as having attachments such as wings, horns, and even fish scales, but from the depictions it is clear that these are clothes or costumes worn for their symbolic value, for these symbols indicated divine power and royal blood. The gods themselves had their own monarchy, with laws of succession similar to our own, and they built a global empire upon the Earth, with great cities, temples and monuments, and mighty nations established on several continents. They created mankind as a slave race to work on their farms and in their gold mines, among other things. The Sumerian legends are very clear: man was made to "bear the yoke of the gods." Man was separate from the gods, like a domesticated animal, and there was a great cultural taboo amongst the gods against sharing any of their sacred information with humanity, even things such as writing and mathematics. These gods ruled directly over Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley, and their rule is recorded in the histories of all three civilizations.

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Also, winyanstaz, I don't think the DU is a good place to make your claim. There are some vicious posters here and those who totally misunderstand what the Merovingvian Kings were about. Anyway, enjoy the read. I'll be seeing ya.

[winyanstaz]

3. thanks for the warning icy but I am not afraid of the lurkers :)

I noticed an interesting name in this post where you wrote... "In Sumeria, the Annunaki."
One of the tribes of the Algonquin Nation is called Abanaki, sometimes spelled Abunaki..and several other spelling too.
I just thought it was interesting how simular they sounded in the endings.....half world apart.