27th April 2008 | Message from the owner

Dear visitors,

In this press release on 17th April, the producers of the Bloodline documentary claimed that the tomb that is presented in the documentary has been acknowledged by the French Archeological Authority of Montpellier (Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles, DRAC) and that a full survey is on the way.

After the RLC Research Team talked to Mr. Jean-Pierre Giraud of DRAC in Montpellier, I need to conclude that there are serious issues of authenticity with the discoveries of Ben Hammott that appear in the Bloodline documentary. There is no dossier of any tomb in the area with DRAC.

The bottles and parchments Ben Hammott claims to have found are most likely forgeries. An analysis is given in this article.

Take care | Raven

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View the clips from Bloodline, the Movie: (select one from the list and click to view)

Next month will see the theatrical release of the already controversial Documentary Film Bloodline the Movie. This project by the American Director-Producer duo Bruce Burgess and René Barnett deals with the alleged discoveries of British researcher Ben Hammott, formerly known as The Tombman. It is claimed that in the tomb Hammott discovered, there’s a 2.000 year old mummy from the Middle-East, possibly Mary-Magdalene. Hammott is not the only one who makes these claims. In the clips, long time French researchers like Gerard Thom and Daniel Duges display why they think there’s a Jewish temple under one of the mountains in the Rennes-les-Bains area that might contain the bodies of not only Mary-Magdalene, but also Christ and their children.

According to Jean-Pierre Deloux and Jacques Brétigny, this drawing once decorated the church in Rennes-les-Bains. It shows a pope, copied from a well-known deck of Tarot Cards. Behind him is the church of Rennes-les-Bains, seen from the cemetery, with the rock of Cap de l’Homme in the distance. The features are unmistakable. The cross, the barred window and the rock can easily be recognised.

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In 1900, the municipal council of Rennes-le-Château’s approved Abbé Saunière’s request to dig a caveau in the cemetery to serve as the last resting place for him and all future village priests. Construction was started in 1901. The caveau consisted of two adjacent separate burial chambers that could each contain 6 coffins. They were dug out in the western wall of the cemetery. Bérenger Saunière was laid to rest in this vault, that he himself had built. The place was marked with a simple concrete tombstone and a cross. Some time later, a stone relief would added with a portrait of Saunière. The portrait however was wrongly copied from a photo of his brother. The two brothers, that were mixed up many times during their lives were now even mixed up in death.

Marie Dénarnaud died in 1953 at the age of 85. She was buried in the same vault, next to the man she had served for so long.

One last ride

In the early morning of 14th September 2004, a substantial police force sealed off the village of Rennes-le-Château. Around 7 o’clock, the remains of Bérenger Saunière where moved to a new tomb where he was laid to rest for the last time below 5 tons of concrete. The decision was taken by Major Jean-François L’Huilier of Rennes-le-Château and Saunière’s descendants, as he explains in this interview and in a French article in regional newspaper La Depêche du Midi (bottom of the page). It’s remarkable L’Huillier talks about descendants. It is well known the Abbé didn’t live like a saint, but this is the first indirect evidence that he actually produced offspring with someone. As a reason for moving his grave, the mayor mentioned “the family and myself could no longer allow the hordes of treasure seekers and tourists to swarm the small village cemetery and violate the graves”. There is now a sturdy lock on the iron gate that, oh irony, Saunière put there himself to keep any spectators away from his own private grave digging. The remains of Marie Dénarnaud still remain in the caveau. The cemetery is opened for all public in the month of November.

One last riddle

Saunière left us with a riddle on the top of the Cross that marked his original grave. There is an inscription reading : INRI with an inversed ‘N”. The inscription refers to the almost identical inscription on the cross at Jesus’ crucifixion: INRI, Iesu Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews). One person has pointed out that NAZARETH backwards is HTERAZAN, in Hebrew HA TE RATZ AN, which means ‘where is the mysterious room’ So Iesu Nazareth Rex Iudeorum becomes ‘I knew where the king of the world’s mysterious (or secret) room (or place) was’.

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Tombstone of Jean Jacques Henri Boudet (Axat, Aude)

Henri Boudet is buried in the cemetery of the town of Axat. The top of his tombstone reads “F A M I L L E S A P R E L L A B A T B O U D E T”, indicating the tomb is a family grave containing multiple burials, although only Henri and his brother Edmond are mentioned by name in the inscriptions. The Notary Edmond Boudet was buried in this tomb in 1906, 9 years before Henri’s death. On the lower right hand portion of the tombstone is a raised, rectangular shaped slab, elevated from the base of the horizontal tombstone by 3 cm. The raised masonry is approximately 11 cm wide and 9 cm long and carries the inscription I.X.O.I.Σ.

At first glance the expression ‘IXOIS’ seems to defy language, combining Greek, Latin and English characters to form a nonsensical string of letters. When viewed upside down, the inscription turns into 3.I.0.X.I, perhaps being a reference to Boudet’s puzzling 1886 book; La vraie langue celtique et le cromleck de Rennes-les-Bains. The ‘310’ portion of the upside down view matches the number of pages in Boudet’s book: 310. The ‘XI’ portion is thought to reference Chapter 11 of Boudet’s book, which many believe to contain a treasure map. Collectively, these observations have led researchers to conclude that the little stone book conceals a secret.

In actual fact, it concerns a representation of the word ICHTUS meaning Fish and representing Jesus.

The individual letters of the expression hold the following meaning:

I	- for Jesus in Greek:   (Ιησους)
CH	- for Christ in Greek:   (Χριστος)
TH	- for God in Greek:     (Θεου)
U	- for son in Greek:      (Υιος)
S	- for savior in Greek:  (Σωτηρ)

The Cathedrale de Notre Dame des Pommiers et St. Thyrse of Sisteron (Provence) contains the exact same word I.X.O.I.Σ. written below a fish, proving it was not an uncommon way to refer to Christ.

Andrew Gough elaborates on this theory in his article here.

Photos (c)2007 Andrew Gough

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Tomb of Nicolas Poussin, Basilica Lorenzo in Lucina, Rome

Nicolas Poussin died in Rome in 1665 and was buried in the Basilica San Lorenzo in Lucina. Vicomte de François-Auguste-René Châteaubriand (1768-1848), French Ambassador in Rome, raised a monument to Poussin above the artist’s mausoleum in 1820. It carries a dedication and a bas-relief displaying his most famous painting the Shepherds of Arcadia. Below the plaque there’s an inscription that might well answer our question of whether Poussin preserved esoteric clues in his work. It states:

‘PARCE PIIS LACRIMIS VIVIT PUSSINUS IN URNA VIVERE QUI DEDERAT NESCIUS IPSE MORI HIC TAMEN IPSE SILET SI VIS AUDIRE LOQUENTEM MIRUM EST TABULIS VIVIT ET ELOQUITUR’.

This curious expression speaks about how Poussin has given his life without really dying. He is silent now but if you’re prepared to listen you can hear him speaking through his paintings.

Chateaubriand;s dedication reads: ‘F-R de Châteaubriand to Nicolas Poussin, for the glory of the Arts and the honour of France’ The bas-relief displaying Les Bergers d’Arcadie was executed by Léon Vaudoyer (1803-1872). The bust of Poussin, above it, is signed ‘P. Lemoyne’.

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