Not everyone believes that the Grail is a mere piece of [crockery]. In some stories, the Holy Grail is described as a [stone] -- either a [stone tablet] containing the [wisdom of the ages] or a [rock] with [mysterious powers]. Some [writer]s have even claimed that the Grail is a [meteor].

And anytime you start talking about [stone]s with [mysterious] [power]s, [dabbler]s in [esotericism] will start mumbling about the holy grail of [alchemy] -- the [Philosopher's Stone], which had the power to either (A) turn [lead] to [gold] or (B) grant [eternal life].

Even more [interesting] is the theory that our concept of the Grail is the result of a [mistranslation] -- in [French], "[Holy Grail]" is "[san greal]," but if you shift one [letter] over, you get "[sang real]," or "[Royal Blood]." According to this [theory], recorded in detail in a book called "[Holy Blood, Holy Grail]" by [Michael Baigent], [Henry Lincoln], and [Richard Leigh], the Holy Grail is actually a [metaphor] for the [bloodline] of [Jesus Christ] -- the direct descendants of [Jesus] and [Mary Magdalene] who, we are told, escaped to [France] to become the semi-legendary [Merovingian kings], the [Priory of Sion], the [Rosicrucians], the [Knights Templar], the [Freemasons], and, of course, the [Illuminati].

Holy Grail (idea)