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Simon M. Miles Beyond the Map and the Manuscript Author, researcher, speaker. My first book, The Map and the Manuscript: Journeys in the Mysteries of the Two Rennes, was published by Ignotum Press in 2022. I blog here on topics connected with the book, including landscape alignments, ancient sites, France, the Pyrenees, Jean Richer, Rennes-les-Bains, alchemy, geometry, Jung, Gérard de Nerval, Le Serpent Rouge, the Affair of Rennes, and more.

I was looking for a Mary that made sense to the culture of her day…but also a Mary that could travel with her son and tell him what to do… something only a queen mother could get away with…as I eventually discovered. My Mary also had to explain why her son–a Galilean citizen brutally killed by the Roman Occupier of Palestine in Jerusalem at the behest of the Jewish High Court and Herod, the Tetrarch of Galilee, AND the High Priest…all the forms of political power of the day…died with a sign over his head saying, “King of the Jews.” All four versions of the story in the gospels include the sign and they also all include the first question Pilate asked Jesus: “Are you a King of the Jews?” to which Jesus answered, in all four gospels, “Yes.”

Religion Matters from the Bible to the Modern World

English posts regarding biblical manuscripts and their creation & information

la sortie de Couiza, un route monte vivement à gauche, c'est le chemin de Rennes-le-Château, sur l'arête du plateau, découpe a décor singulier: des maisons en ruine, a château féodal délabré, surplombent et confondent avec la falaise calcaire, puis des villas, des tours à véranda, neuves et modernes contrastent étrangement avec ces ruines: c'est la maison d'un curé qui aurait bâti cette demeure somptueuse avec l'argent d'un trésor trouvé, disent les paysans