 "These two books led me on one of the wildest goose chases ever," O confessed. "In this one, Secret of the Cathars, a certain gentleman claims that a special coat of arms, belonging to the district of Sabarthez in France, contains a clandestine message concerning the family which guards the Holy Grail. The motto beneath the device of two bears facing a winged cup reads: SABARTHEZ CUSTOS SUMMORUM, or Sabarthez, custodian of the summit. See the picture here? Okay, according to the French author, the code is a mixture of both heraldry and phonetic Kabala - you know, like the one the Sufis use." "Why of course," the Calabrian agreed. "Listen, don't be a smarty pants. Anyway, an heraldic description, as pointed out by Elizabeth Van Buren in this study, here, would translate into: Rouge, coup dorée, ailes blanches, which in traditional French means very little, but in the language of native Occitania becomes: Roge, aur copa, alos blancos, or, in French, Roger aura la coupe des Blancs." "Roger will have the cup of the Whites..." "Yes, yes! The Cathars were called the Albis, or Whites. Roger was the Christian name of the two Trencavels, father and son, who were the national heroes of Occitania." "What does it say there?" |
