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Corjan's latest article offers new insights into the mystery of Perillos. It’s called The Three Holy Maps, and it discusses how three sources point to one destination in Perillos. Have a read and let us know what you think:

http://www.andrewgough.co.uk/3maps.html

Does Perillos have any underground caves linked to it?

The angle subscribed by the two equal sides of the Coume Sourde triangle is 33 degrees.

If a Rose Line that passes through the centre of that triange and that place is designated the zero degree meridian then Mount Hermon (Mt Sion) (Latitude 33° 24’ 34”N Longitude 35° 51” 40”E) which is the scene of Christ's transfiguration in the North of Israel will be 33 degrees North and 33 degrees East.

Perillos is Latitude 42° 52’ 09”N Longitude 02° 51” 40”E

35° 51” 40”E minus
02° 51” 40”E

equals

33°

EXACTLY!!!!!


Tell me that isn't just a coincidence?


Perhaps I should remind people that 33° is significant to Scottish rite freemasonry and is the "Degree of the Master". Perhaps I should also remind you that Scottish rite freemasonry has little to do with Scotland as it was founded in Charleston South Carolina which stands on the 33° line of latitude.

French researcher and journalist Jean Brunelin has published a photo of the left and right panel of the giant fresco on the west wall of the Rennes-le-Château church actually being one scene in this thread on Franck Daffos' forum. (coule of posts down, the BIG picture) It's a great find; the landscape really look like one logical thing. There are some string indications that we are looking at the landscape of Perillos there, which strengthens the theory of the Three Holy Maps. I've been posting a little on Franck's forum about it and I'd like to share that with you here too so here's a summary:

The figure in the fresco is Saunière. The figure is dressed like a priest, carries an umbrella and wears the round priest hat Saunière always wore when he went away. Saunière was also known to take his umbrella everywhere. There's many photos on which he is holding it:



Now look at the similarities with the Perillos landscape:

the number of houses and how they lie on the hill is identical; I took this picture from the position of Saunière walking towards the middle of the Fresco. If you look at Jean's photos in the thread on Franck's forum the general feel of the rough Perillos landscape is entirely there with the Mount of Olives in the distance behind the ruined village.

The mountain with the castle on the left is not really a mountain. It's more like a plateau with sharp steep edges. More like the Plateau d'Opoul really which has a castle in about the same spot.



The small dolmen at the bottom right corner look like Roc Redon seen from the back:



Of course there's some artistic license in the fresco which makes you can never be sure. However, in this case we have three distinguishing features of the Perillos landscape. And more, Saunière actually used a couple of clever inversions again. On the left of the fresco it's summer, on the right it's winter. The Plateau d'Opoul that lies to the right of Perillos has been moved to the top and to the left of Perillos.

The thing that convinced me however is the similarity in geometry of the entire fresco and the Perillos geometry:



The three Chapels in Perillos (one in ruins in the middle of the plateau d'Opoul) make a perfect triangle. The legs of the triangle are identical in length in both cases (thanks Google Earth!) Same goes for the fresco. Notice the line crosses 4 crosses at the bottom and has the 'bulls eye' cross at the center.

Last clue: in the fresco we see Jesus preaching in the famous Sermon on the Mount. That mount was the Mount of Olives. The left leg of the Perillos triangle passes EXACTLY over the top of the Montaillou the Perillou, known on old maps of Perillos as Montagne des Olives or Mount of Olives.


I have no doubt where Saunière was going.

Now that is fascinating. Well done Corjan.

What did we ever do before Google Earth anyway?

Seriously, great work and thank you for posting it.

Regards,

Andrew

We used IGN maps!

On the French SP site, there is also an article that provides further detail to this, and also argues for the creation of a "Seal of Solomon" based on the existence of this principle triangle.

A triangle, of course, was of interest to Sauniere, seeing as he drew one in his garden, which maps perfectly on the Kabbalah, as Corjan has pointed out. But underneath it all, there is also a correspondence between this garden and the infamous Sauniere's model.

Philip

The triangle thing is pretty good, but I don't find much convincing similarity in the painting/landscape comparisons you showed, though the dolmen thing is fairly similar, but not exact enough to really make a positive identification. The one with all the buildings in a row doesn't really seem to match very well to me. The long bluish hill behind the buildings in the painting is absent in the real landscape and the buildings are all different. The castle on the rock is also completely different from the other landscape you showed. I can't accept that match either. The identification of Sauniere with the umbrella looks plausible.

The hill is not in the picture but in real it's there allright. Check Google Earth to find the Mount of Olives behind Perillos. It's called Montaillou de Perillou now, but Mount of Olives is the name on old maps.

I agree you can never be sure that it is exactly this Saunière was trying to say. There is some artistic license and the painter will have had done the scenes based on Saunière's sketches.

For me it's the sum of the locations and the similarity, the triangles in both the real landscape and on the fresco, the mount of olives (Jesus is standing on it in the church doing his Sermon on the Mount), the inversion. That's a lot of things that fit nicely together.

Thanks for having a look!

Maybe you would have to be at a higher viewpoint to see the hill behind the buildings. I admit the Mount of Olives connection is a strong correlation.
So I guess we have a "tomb of Christ" and a "Mount of Olives" in the Perillos area. It certainly seems like someone was trying to liken that area to the Jerusalem area. There can be no other reason to name that hill Mount of Olives since I don't think olives grow in France.

jb1717,

Aha!..........Wrong. The south of France is well known for it's Olive trees!

The Olive tree was an emblem of Fertility & a symbol of Peace and Glory.

Sheila, in France.

Thanks, Sheila. I thought it was a possibility but I speculated against it. Still, does the hill actually have any olive trees on it? If not, then the name would be odd.

I don't think there are.

Another clue is that line you see coming down through the Chapel of St. Michael in Perillos to the base of the triangle. It starts in the Chapel of Notre Dame de l'Olive, that lies on the other side of the mountain from Perillos: Our lady of the Olives.

Maybe it is some sort of reference to Isis, who restored Osiris to life with a balm made with olive oil.

"The head of Isis is sometimes ornamented with a crown of gold or a garland of olive leaves, as conspicuous marks of her sovereignty as queen of the world and mistress of the entire universe." http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta10.htm

some months back tombman hammett did his thing with these panels and asked his readers to post what they thought of who was the umbrella man. I submittted Sauniere's name due to several factors, like, its his Church, the figure was dressed in clerical garb and the morbid tone of the panel gave it a funereal tone.

Hammett never mentioned much after that, nor mentioned any submissions either, so I took it as either a fishing expedition or a red-herring. Now
I see that folk have given this scenario another look-see to glean whatever info they can.

I get the impression Sauniere is on his way to a morbid setting, not of his own choosing.