02-23-2024, 12:25 PM
There was a book written by Umberto Eco titled ''Foucault's Pendulum''. The gist of the story was concerning treasure hunters, or antiquity hunters on the trail of some long ago treasure. Throughout the book the protagonists followed obscure clues found in books and old parchments, one after another leading them on getting ever closer to the final ''find''.
Meanwhile there were other groups of hunters searching as well, a few of these hunting clubs went back decades and in a case or two, centuries. All of these hunters finally zeroed in on the final ''find'' only to discover that for the most part, all the mysterious clues they had been unearthing along the way were just speculations written by earlier treasure hunters and they all ended up in the same place at the same time and there was no treasure. They had all been chasing each others tails, or tales.
I wonder why anyone would place any importance on finding the Arc, or for that matter the Ark. For that matter the Shroud or the Chalice.
Meanwhile there were other groups of hunters searching as well, a few of these hunting clubs went back decades and in a case or two, centuries. All of these hunters finally zeroed in on the final ''find'' only to discover that for the most part, all the mysterious clues they had been unearthing along the way were just speculations written by earlier treasure hunters and they all ended up in the same place at the same time and there was no treasure. They had all been chasing each others tails, or tales.
I wonder why anyone would place any importance on finding the Arc, or for that matter the Ark. For that matter the Shroud or the Chalice.
