The Shepherds Monument Mystery Solved.
I was reading Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
when I came across the mystery of the bas relief based on Poussins painting
Les Bergers dAcadie. The authors said that the inscription DOUSOVAVVM was
impossible to decipher, even with a computer. This sounded too wild to be true
and I took the challenge of solving the mystery, without a computer. It took
four hours, hardly impossible to decipher. My proof is listed below, I will not
go into details of the references, they can easily be found on the Internet.
Clues to the
Solution (not in order)
Village of Rennes-le-Chateau is
perched on a rocky outcrop
Antoine Bigou miscarved the date
MDCCLXXI as MDCOLXXXI. He changed C to O (not a Roman Numeral) and added an
extra X or number 10
Poussin painted Les Bergers dAcadie
the title is French
Sauniere discovered a parchment
Poussinhold the KEY
Location of Poussin painting in Les
Pointls, near Rennes-le-Chateau
A reverse bas relief carving of Les
Bergers dAcadie is located at Shughburough house near Staffordshire England
There are eight letters on one line of
the bas relief, two letters on next line
Sauniere decoded the messages and
found the Grail even though he was not a Templar initiate he did not possess
the esoteric knowledge thought to be needed
Solution (Order of learning the first
five clues is unimportant: The last step can not be deciphered until the first
five are understood, and you have the KEY.)
1.
Bigou replaced C with O and added
reference to number 10 - CLUE
2.
There are 10 letters on inscription,
eight on one line CLUE
3.
Poussin painted Les Bergers dAcadie -
CLUE
4.
Bas relief is a REVERSE of Poussins
painting CLUE
5.
Bas relief has a casket obscuring view
of Rennes le Chateau CLUE
6.
Sauniere parchment refers to Poussin
KEY
7.
Replacing O with C in the eight-letter
word and reading it REVERSED (i.e. upside down and mirrored) gives for the
first line: AAVACSNC. This is an
anagram in French Ca Canvas (That Picture). The bas-relief in England is
obscuring the location of the Holy Grail in France - SOLUTION
No
esoteric knowledge needed.
Solution
by Ed McGrath May 16, 2007 (not Jan 17th)