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Published Date: 15 May 2006
SCOTSMAN.COM are delighted to offer you an insight into Rosslyn Chapel. If you've read the book, intend seeing The Da Vinci Code in the cinema or you just want to find out what all the fuss is about, then these podcasts are for you.
Let Heritage & Culture lead you down the aisle of this extraordinary chapel and explore the myths and mysteries associated with it. You can view these features on your iPod or on your personal computer.Day One: a stone enigma - the myths and mysteries of Rosslyn

Day Two: the history

Day Three: the Knights Templar

Day Four: the carvings

Day Five: The Da Vinci Code

For our podcasts we have gathered together a group of experts to help you explore Rosslyn inside and out:

Stuart Beattie: a member of Rosslyn Chapel Trust, and the care and preservation of the building lies in his hands
Mark Oxbrow: the author of Rosslyn and the Grail
Robert Brydon: a Templar historian.

Some of the music you hear on the podcasts was written by composer Stuart Mitchell – who cracked the code of the musical notation embedded in the ceiling in Rosslyn.

If this is your first time to the Heritage & Culture website, produced by scotsman.com in Edinburgh, we say "welcome!". A quick tour of the site and you will see that we offer all things to all people: video archive footage, a history timeline, interactive maps, plus, in our humble opinion, some of the greatest feature writing you will ever find on the web. Just one look at our Myths & Mysteries section and you'll see what we mean!

As part of our coverage we recently offered readers a chance to play the Rosslyn Chapel Quiz. The competition to win a prize is over - sorry! - but you still have a chance to test your knowledge of Rosslyn (How do I get to the chapel on time?) and The Da Vinci Code.

In the spirit of Rosslyn, we also offer an information-filled line-up of new stories for you to enjoy.

Tune into the Da Vinci coda

From St Clair to Sinclair – the family who built Rosslyn

Restoration or dilapidation for our historic buildings

Images of an enigma: Rosslyn Chapel inside and out

Battle of Roslin

Rosslyn Chapel in The Scotsman's 19th century archives

And those stories are just the latest offerings from Heritage & Culture. The site has been publishing features about the chapel, the Knights Templar and a whole lot more for more than a year. Here's a glance at the Top Ten most-read Rosslyn-related features from the site:

1. The many mysteries of Rosslyn Chapel, 20 January 2005

2. The Grail, Jesus's children and Stone Age lasers: Scotland's madder myths, 15 April 2005

3. Rosslyn Chapel's extraordinary carvings explained at last, 13 October 2005

4. In search of the Holy Grail, 7 July 2005

5. Rosslyn, ley lines and the baron knights, 22 September 2005

6. The ship of dreams, 12 May 2005

7. Picture-mystery tour of Rosslyn Chapel, 21 July 2005

8. Knights Templar, 8 February 2005

9. Rosslyn, Templars, Gypsies and the Battle of Bannockburn, 10 November 2005

10. Esoteric secrets, Scottish Freemasonry and the building of the American dream, 20 April 2006



We have even grouped together all stories from Heritage & Culture and our sister newspapers - The Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News and Scotland on Sunday - into one convenient package:

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You can also receive a feed of Rosslyn Chapel stories as they are published by signing up here.

And subscribe here to receive each future podcast as they are delivered. There are plans to present new audio podcasts in the coming weeks!

We hope you enjoyed the Rosslyn Chapel podcasts, the stories and plan to visit Heritage & Culture again.

The full article contains 646 words and appears in scotsman.com newspaper.
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1

Donald,

Kirkwood, Missouri, USA 18/06/2006 00:00:00

We, over here accross the pond, recon that the Roslyn chapel is the point of conception or origination of what we call Fremasonry today. the laird sinclair had family connections to the Templars all the way back to the first ones you know. The chapel is thought to be a very good replica of "the Temple" at Jerusalam that is the "Wailing Wall replica you see, not an un finished mini-catadral at all. Beyond that , W.Bush doesn't stand for all of us over here, It wasn't jesus who snapped his ears and got him of the dopin & drinkn band wagon. it was his Ma and a gang of high dollar bodygaurds.

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Debbi,

Dallas, TX 20/06/2006 00:00:00

Donald, were you drinking when you wrote that? ;-) While I am no fan of Bush, there are better ways of showing your ire for the .... man. For instance, just cite his record.

Having said that, been to Rosslyn Chapel in 02, and all I can say is that everywhere I went in Scotland was so beautiful. You that live there are very lucky.

Debbi

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Jock C Denial,

Boston, MA 30/06/2006 00:00:00

In 1876, a group of businessmen left Boston to visit Rosslyn Castle. The area in which they lived was called South Street Crossing just south of Boston, Mass. After seeing Lord Rosslyn's estate and it's hills and dales the men returned to Boston and renamed their area which had a similar topography: Roslindale. Roslindale residents are proud of their connection not only to Scotland but to the 'Code" for highlighting some of the twisted history of the Church.

4

Granny,

U.S.A 15/07/2006 15:48:43

It is amazing, that the Holy Grail is right there on the news...in a Cathedral in Valencia, Spain. Not hidden, not part of a secret code etc. Secret Societies and Gnostic gospels are blinded by the simplicity of the truth... There is no secret about Jesus and His Church...or His Holy Grail. Seek and ye shall find... it is FOUND... sorry Dan Brown and all those others who are making fortunes out of the so called secrets that don't exist... What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his own soul. Better that those who are seeking truth go on a pilgrimage to Valencia, Spain

5

ronnie,

hartlepool 02/09/2006 18:12:20

i have been there quite a lot ,a very peaceful and holy place. bright blessings

6

geoff,

marco island florida 05/09/2006 15:29:48

The Sinclairs travelled to the USA in1399 and came to Westford Mass not to far from Boston. While there one member died and his picture is carved in granite. He is called the Westford knight .see westford knight.com I visited the site last summer as my wifes family live 1 mile from the site. They were told as young kids of the site at school but forgot until i asked about it. Could this be where they took the Holy Grail ? I await any responses .

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THOMAS,

USA-IL-Springfield area 06/09/2006 21:41:28

It is a fine thing that you do such a story.. Is it the beginning of revelations?
As for Mr. Bush, I do believe that he is trying his best, perhaps to little and a bit late, as that lovable rouge of a president Mr. Clinton, dropped the ball and gave liberal Europe their high tech. workers, the Kosovo Affair, instead of going after the low tech. jihadist, that are a force that can't be negotiated with. Now they have the capabilities to have the bomb, and are going for the Big One. I think the idea to contain the carnage to their neck of the earth is just, but it may not work..
I came to your site through a news story on yahoo about the war in Afghanistan and noted that the picture of the mortar position so typifies how things are going. It must have took days to build.
Anyway, faith in GOD is a MUST needed element in the days to come and a good remembrance of history (GOD can't help you if you don't try)..

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Florjan,

15/09/2006 15:57:23

After reading the Da Vinci code, I can tell you, that the story does not found solution of san greal. The san greal is not sang real. In Rosslyn chapel, the san greal is the code how the unknown cubes substitution establishes matter. Simplicity this code told us about the way how the matter is creating. The wisdom of the code of a san greal explains necessary conditions, which one are laying dipper then the physics of gluons and quarks, and join matter particles into matter parts like quarks are. Discover us a system how the matter is creating, we can turn processes upside down and we can be able to producing the matter annihilations energy. The David star in the total version, explain the forces between the parts of matter. The cubs and David star have common significance.

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Explorer,

longniddry 26/12/2007 22:49:58
The mysteries and legends discussed above are explored in greater detail in a new book, 'Rosslyn Chapel Revealed' (Sutton Publishing Ltd.). Cleverly, this goes back, not only to the first real guidebook to Rosslyn Chapel written by the priest-in-charge, the Revd John Thompson, but also to another priest, this time a Roman Catholic one, Fr Richard Augustine Hay, whose mother had married into the St Clair family. It is Hay's voluminous writings (to be found in the National Library of Scotland) that form the basis of almost everything we know about Rosslyn.
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Treasure News,

Canada 14/04/2008 08:08:46
News: Could the Da Vinci code continue too the Mayan civilization, the Rosslyn chapel gives plausible clues of a Mayan connection. One of the clues that mystifies me is the depiction of corn and aloe in the Rosslyn chapel, these are prominent plants in the new world. With these Rosslyn plant clues I searched for more possible clues in the meso civilizations, Mayan architectural art and block writing gave some indication that there maybe a relation in art and block writing.


The Mayan art of beings are mostly Mayans in a crouching positions, in similarities the Rosslyn chapels being images are in somewhat in a crouching perched position.


The Rosslyn chapels ceiling block writing does show the same concept depiction of putting there illustrations in square area's as to the Mayan block writing. May this be a coincidence or maybe this is what culture the author of the Rosslyn church was incorporating into the the chapel's portraits as a story of it's souls it reached out to, with similar knowledge. The Rosslyn chapel does have different images that periodical show up all over the Rosslyn church, this gives reason the church is in story illustration rather in code. It is well known that the Sinclair's travel to the America's and they were associated with the Rosslyn church. These Rosslyn clues may give clues on just how far the Sinclair's voyaged along the America's eastern seaboard and who they may of interacted with, the Rosslyn chapel perhaps is a partial travel monument, and the code to Rosslyn's chapel is possibly in the Sinclair's new world foes.

The theory continues... http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/

Canadian First Nations

Keith Ranville

Oak Island Treasure News
http://oakislandtreasurenewsarchives.blogspot.com/

 

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