Let's give up reading this work here, as the
following is a tracking of the Grand Monarch across the centuries
leading to the ultimate revelation, of course made by the Marquis de
B., namely the Merovingians' extraterrestrial origin. Let's specify
however after an old work discovered at Brussels by the author, the
tombs discovered in the 18th century in the crypts of Saint Dagobert
church also revealed the Merovingians could have been of great
height… The Giants come from Elsewhere…
Let's
summarize the data of the myth:
STENAY, THE CITY OF THE SATAN
In fact, no need to do laborious
research. The key of the enigma is given us by the tourist
information office in a small treatise "le nom de Stenay" perfectly
summarizing the works conducted by the local historians.
THE NAME OF
STENAY
The origin of the name Stenay is lost. But since a century, a
battle of scholars was started trying to specify it.
In fact, the arms of the town (`d'argent au chevron d'azur
accompagné en pointe d'un lion d'or armé et lampassé de gueule…', as
described by Denain before the Revolution) are directly inspired by
these of Godefroy de Bouillon (11th c.). But since the late 19th,
and probably due to the publication by Jeantin in his "Manuel de la
Meuse" (1860) of an article about SATHENAY or SATHANAY, one sees the
town's shield rather showing a small figure of the devil, horned and
grimacing. Jeantin yields in fact to the mania of his time: to
explain everything `scientifically', and he writes:
"The appellation SATHAN is, at once, geological, cosmogonical and Hebraic…" Thence to
make of Stenay the town of the Satan, there's but one step, quickly
made by the lovers of originality. As early as 1885, the paper at
the heading of the mairie bears this heraldic novelty and, when in
1925 the current Hôtel de Ville replaces the old common house of the
Porte de Bourgogne, the architect means well carving on the fronton
(but not in the great salon) the famous face of the devil.
Famous in fact as since then one talks of it a lot: historians, heraldists,
linguists, even novelists, and citizens of Stenay too _ that don't
however take seriously their claimed devilish origin, as the
`Crottes de Satan' have become a specialty of the local candy store
and the Mayor, wanting to brighten the institution with a
commemorative medal of the town, makes of it the emblem of a
`Confrérie des Diablotins de Stenay' created on the smiling method
in June 1983…
The canon Vigneron, dean curate of Stenay 1941-1966,
fond of local history and learned linguist,[6] wouldn't of course
accept this etymology. He first draws up rather impressive a list of
the ancient appellations of Stenay across authentic historic acts,
then his deductions appearing well conducted, bring him to the
conclusion Stenay could mean `Town of Setinius', individual of the
1st century A.D. native to the town of Setia (Sezze nowadays) 80 km
SE of Rome…
Here are some versions taken in the table he makes of 25 names
counted of the town, with their appearance era: SATENAIUM and
SATANIACUM (10th c.), SATANACUM (1069), SATINNACUM and SATINIA CUM
(1086), SETUNIA (11th c.), SEPTINIACUM (1107), SETENAE (1208),
SETTENAI (1243). SATANAY (1284), without forgetting SATHANAI from
the seal of the Provosty (1320) and STENA of the local dialect. But
1643 must be awaited last to find written the name STENAY.
OFFICE
DE TOURISME
SYNDICAT D'INITIATIVE
DU
PAYS DE STENAY
Place R. Poincaré - 55700 STENAY
Tél.
03 29 80 64 22 - Fax 03 29 80 62 59
I obviously couldn't help but go back to the sources and obtain from
the town's bookshop the reference work, "Grandes Heures de
l'Histoire de Stenay" by abbé Vigneron.[7]
Then, it must be given up
making of Stenay the `town of the Satan'. Never the word Satan must
be kept to explain the name Stenay.
Here are three peremptory reasons to exclude this explanation:
1)
The name Satan was wholly unknown among us when the name Stenay took
shape, for the good reason Satan is a Hebrew word that only reached
us with the Gospel, so hardly before the 5th century for our region:
too late to enter in the name of a Gallo-Roman locality going back
to 50 B.C.
2) Impossibly showing one could lodge this Hebrew word
(Satanas) in our town's name, this name would have been so easy to
keep then that we wouldn't have 25 forms but a sole form of this
name in the archives, and the name «Stenay» itself whose penultimate
form was Settenay, couldn't have existed phonetically or
historically as the mediaeval Stenaisians wouldn't have admitted
their town were called the city of the Satan. The French Academy
only admitted the word «satanic» in 1798 and «satané»/damned/ in
1878.
Each of these two reasons was enough alone to exclude this
explanation of the name Stenay. And here's a third however.
3) NEVER
ANYBODY before 1850 seriously thought to lodge Satan in the name
Stenay; there had to be found at Montmédy a former president of the
tribunal who was the first to write on North-Meusian history a
sizeable three-volume book. Jeantin, as his name is, had an insane
manner to explain placenames that was the despair of his family. His
niece, late Madame Pérot de Médy-haut, regarded him as totally
misled in his aberrant mania to explain all placenames by Hebraic
roots and geological considerations so harebrained nobody cannot
take them seriously…
«BUT A RECENT BOOK HAS KEPT JEANTIN'S OPINION!»
_ It's true in a way, Gérard de Sède, in a pocket book entitled «La
race fabuleuse» has raised on the history of the Merovingians a
whole series of questions he doesn't try to solve in this thin book;
G. de Sède was quite careful not to claim writing a book of history.
Admittedly he doesn't invent but his manner to present «what he has
read» isn't that of a critical researcher but of a man who above all
desires to astonish and make his readers dream about what others
were able to write on the issue of poorly known events. Possibly he
was amused being the first to discover what has been written by the
authors of all times on the subjects he tackles; and he prefers the
oddest. For him, A BOOK OF JEANTIN IS GODSEND: as regards oddities
and uncontrolled solemn assertions, he'll make them, but he isn't
fooled and sometimes it's shown.
That's well the case for the
explanation of the name Stenay: do you believe he could seriously
write this real phrase of Jeantin (promoted archaeologist by him) «The
appellation Sathan is at once geological, cosmogonic and
Hebraico-Celtic, there's the most unquestionable patent of antiquity
for the town of Stenay» (page 20). In page 13, de Sède asserts the
name Stenay derives both from Sathan and the Stone (Stein in German).
Let's say improbabilities pile up as in the same page 13, the former
name Stenay means, further, «Residence of Saturn»… Let's conclude
neither Jeantin nor de Sède bring any light to the explanation of
the name Stenay. They both elude the question; de Sède doesn't want
to explain, Jeantin doesn't know.
THE MYSTERIOUS STONE OF STENAY
Saint-Dagobert II crypt of Stenay
shows us a mysterious stone, restored by Gino Frua, member of the
Cercle. Here's what says Abbé Vigneron in his "histoire de Stenay":
THE
MYSTERIOUS STONE:
The SATOR square Documents taken from "Histoire de
Stenay" by the Abbé Vigneron .
CLANDESTINE CHRISTIANS AT STENAY
It seems us this mysterious rock can be explained as a Christian's
gesture at a time when there was only a small number of Christians
at Stenay.
For explaining it, it must be recalled all the carved stones found
at Stenay were found in the foundations of St-Rémi basilica, prior
to St-Dagobert church that replaced it in the 9th century.
These
stones, reemployed in the foundations, were funerary stelae: the one
of which we talk is also a stela but of a particular kind. Mr
Plantard, working on the history of Stenay, studied this stela: he
considers the letters engraved left and the herringbone pattern
traced right of these letters were a "key" able to allow the
initiates to refer to the famous `Sator Square'.
That's why opposite
we reproduce this well known Sator square. Our drawing of the square
has voluntarily increased some letters to help the explanation of M.
Plantard to be understood: these letters SRNPR, put back to their
place in the square, exactly describe the herringbone pattern
engraved on our stone. M. Plantard so has well found the key
explaining the mysterious letters of the stela of Stenay.
MEANING OF THE SQUARE
The sator square contains 5 words that can be
read in all directions: SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, ROTAS. The
pagans who used the square before the Christians, placed the word
ROTAS in the beginning, in lieu of the word SATOR (so at Pompeii).
This inversion of two words doesn't change the meaning :
The creator
(SATOR), past AREPO, that only makes sense the other way, holds
(TENET) with care (OPERA) the wheels (ROTAS). Otherwise said: Who
has made, who has `sown' (life, the man, the world) oversees,
carefully directs its proceeding. And for the Christians: the
Creator of the man has also created Providence.
MEANING OF THE STONE OF STENAY
The occultism of this stela presumes
it has been engraved at a time when Christians couldn't show
themselves openly: we would readily date it to the late 5th century
or the early 6th, era when an upsurge of pagan zeal is expressed, as
reaction, after the conversion of Clovis in 496.
Unfortunately the
said stone of Stenay is no more at Stenay. It would have been
deposited about 1910 by M. Rivart at Mgr Mangin, curate of Stenay,
then dwelling at the Market square. M Mangin, died in 1914, didn't
witness the removal of this stone in 1917 by the famous Kronprinz
who would have it broken declaring (curiously) he was the "Master of
the Cross). So it has disappeared (once an interesting monument for
History).
C.Vigneron
The reconstruction of the stone of Stenay is the work of Gino Frua,
member of the Cercle.
This stone is exposed in Saint Dagobert II
crypt.
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The ineffable Plantard obviously prevailed in this interpreting. the
Sator square is however well known to the Cabalists and other
alchemists of the word. For example we find in "L'Actualité de
l'Histoire Mystérieuse":[8]
THE SATOR SQUARE
With the Sator square
one recognizes the original temple and project. Many are the manners
to decipher it and still it keeps its enigmatic character. Cabala of
letters or hidden sense, its meaning remains still uncertain.
SATOR - AREPO - TENET - OPERA - ROTAS
5 words, 5 consonants and 3 vowels, already the 8 of the infinite.
The cross of TENET can tell to some it was about a Christian symbol.
Let's not be misled: it's about the Great Work. Who signs the SATOR
square, knew to realize the Stone.
SATOR is the Ploughman. Those who work the wet way, slow but skilful,
claim to be gardeners, working with diligence, as for them time is
only the alteration of seasons turning around. On a more subtle
level, he is the Creator.
AREPO would be a ploughing tool in the Celtizing languages. The
Gauls invented the plough, more efficient than the gardener's hoe,
to slit the Earth or materia that must be taken hold by a magic
operation at a favourable time.
But it most be held firmly and here's TENET. The ploughman holds the
cross that structures the edifice or plough with which he works.
OPERA: it's the work, realization on a material level _ the Stone _
as well as another, more ethereal _ the bel canto. Our gardener is
at work and on the way to complete the Work. Rotas, the wheels,
corresponds to an inverted SATOR. In fact, the SATOR square should
be called the ROTAS square if it were conceived in a language read
from right to left. The inversion evokes the Hanged Man of the Tarot
and a knowledge of the law of the inversion of poles.
The art of the SATOR is to put the subtle below and the thick above.
SATOR masters the plough, the work and the wheel that means the
secret Fire. He achieves his dream on the material level.
THE SATOR TEMPLE
In the Sator square, the consonants structure space
by the major diagonals and key points they occupy in every line.
It's the skeleton of the divine name. The vowels are the soul. Those
are developed in secondary dialogues, giving rhythm to the edifice.
For the equivalent the latter has the triple enclosure and as three-
dimensional development, the stage-pyramid. SRN or RPN constitute
its fish- bones while the letter T opens its gates. These four
cardinal gates relate to the four ways awaiting who chooses himself
for initiation or alchemy.
Right way, left way, passage through death and royal way chosen by
few of the elected.
The first degree appears in the Rotas of the
Sator, traced by the plough Arepo. That's also the priests digging
the first groove, delimiting the enclosure or the student opens the
Earth, for beginning his work.
The second enclosure is exactly that
of the Work, still incomplete, still unfinished. REP and PER
participate in the word Opera, and the Work without finishing it.
Here, the materia is ready to be fertilized.
The secret Fire is
standing on the third stage, in the N. Vibratorily this N
corresponds to fire. In certain Sator squares, this N is drawn the
other way, increasing its operative ability and making it the secret
fire of the operator, the mystery of his success.
Isn't the Sator square a futile game? Beyond pure arithmetical
research the magical squares of numbers have a metaphysical meaning.
The same, the Sator square becomes the reduced structure of the
temple, and for the adept, an athanor and a simplfied image of the
completion of the Work.
Well, the `mystery' remains deepl, and it
can be deepened at leisure while adding with G.C.Mouny (Rennes-le-Château,
un autre regard sur l’Enigme, cp. our chronicles)
- this mysterious
stone would have been halved, and the second piece would have been
introduced at Alet-les-Bains, near RLC.
- that the towns of
Jarnac-Champagne, Montrevel, Gisors, Stenay and RLC have not only
got a representation of the magic square but were all the seat of a
commandery of the Priory of Sion.
THE END OF MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY?
The preceding matters are only
starters, all minor. The Merovingian problematic is certainly the
heart of the myth and the most obvious connection with the affair of
Rennes-le-Château. If it is summarized roughly, risking to deform it,
abbé Saunière would have discovered:
- the parchments mentioning an
occult survival of the Merovingian dynasty, through the son of
Dagobert II, Sigebert, who would have escaped in the Razès.
- indeed
even the tomb of the sacred heir.
On these allegations _ never
confirmed _ is developed an extraordinary mythology, referring the
origin of the Merovingian dynasty to the extra- terrestrials (cp.
supra) or farther still, to Christ himself.
The `beautiful history'
is well known and has been widely popularized by the work of Lincoln
& co, "L'Enigme Sacrée": Christ didn't die on the cross; he married
Mary the Magdalene with whom they had children; the said Mary the
Magdalene escaped to France… etc. This occulto-divine filiation
belongs besides in the framework of a mysterious secret society, the
Priory of Sion that would be at the origin of the Order of the
Templars. The Priory would still be active nowadays, under the
leadership of Pierre Plantard de Saint Clair, hidden pretender to
the throne of France. Let's add still strange documents, deposited
at the Bibliothèque nationale (Dossiers Secrets, Le Serpent Rouge,
Généalogie des rois mérovingiens) under divers signaturs, like that
of Henri Lobineau, would attest to this fabulous descent. Here isn't
the place to show the said Priory has no historic existence or these
famous documents are forged. Others have done it better than me, and
notably Gérard de Sède who in an 1988 work narrated how "it was done"
by a disturbing team of mystagogues (cp. our Chronicles, infra).
So let's return to history and our Merovingians of Stenay. A special
number of "Etudes Mérovingiennes", bulletin of the Cercle Saint
Dagobert II (June 2000) so explains the end of the dynasty:
Dagobert
II is born towards 650 and succeeds on the throne of Austrasia to
his deceased father, still a child, after the period custom. The
Mayor of the Palace (kind of almighty prime minister) GRIMOALD
imagined a trick to move away the child to exile in Ireland, hoping
the young king would be forgotten. But, DAGOBERT was noticed by the
future bishop of YORK, WILFRID. The latter educated and instructed
the young prince. Informed by WILFRID, Austrasia's lords called for
the king's return. DAGOBERT II, returned to his States ravaged by
wars and rivalling factions during his exile, restores peace and
prosperity. He founds many monasteries and churches.
However, his
success provoked the jealousy of EBROIN, Mayor of the Palace of
NEUSTRIA and BURGUNDY. Learned of DAGOBERT's stay, during December
679, at STENAY, a plot aiming to murder the king was organized and
succeeded near the FOUNTAIN of ARPHAYS, nowadays FONTAINE SAINT
DAGOBERT.
The king's body was brought to CHARMOIS, then buried in St
Rémi basilica of Stenay. His son SIGEBERT IV, heir of the throne,
disappeared the same time as his father or, after the legend, was
exiled in the RAZES where he had offspring.
The memory of the pious
Dagobert was kept long by the people, so well that the Carolingian
king CHARLES Il «le CHAUVE» took a personal part in the homage paid
to the martyred king.
In the year 872, on the 10th September, he calls together a council
to DOUZY (Ardennes) that under the aegis of HINCMAR, archbishop of
REIMS, beatified DAGOBERT II.
At the same date was erected a new
basilica at Stenay, later a priory was added to the chapel. A
pilgrimage would last until the Revolution. It mustered about 36
neighbouring parishes. The portal stores many of the best.
So it
must be noted the Merovingian `survival', in the Razès or besides
elsewhere, is the field of legend. But as I'm regularly told by one
of my contacts in the `esoterico-journalistic' ambience, that's not
because it isn't proven that it is false.
So act.
[1] Guide des Chemins du Roi Dagobert, par Jean-Pierre Bousigues,
Editions du Cercle Saint-Dagobert, 3 place Poincaré, 55700 Stenay,
2001.
[2] In fact it's about Marquis Philippe de Chérisey, sidekick
of Pierre Plantard.
[3] For example see "Les Livres Maudits" in the
same collection J'ai Lu (Aventure Mystérieuse)
[4] In fact this
discovery was made in 1965 by Laplante, local architect. The church
portal was dismantled in 1972 under the supervision of abbé Vigneron
to be preserved in a secure place.
[5] This document is a `forgery'
fabricated by Pierre Plantard's team to give credence to the
latter's Merovingian descent; cp. infra.
[6] The commune of Stenay
was eager to pay homage to him baptizing with his name in 1983 the
small place ending the rue de la Citadelle before l'Hôtel du
Gouverneur become Musée Municipal.
[7] Le Livre d'Histoire, Paris
1998 (Monographies des Villes et Villages de France).
[8] Actualité
de l’Histoire Mystérieuse, HS 22 ©
