This wobbly looking symbol, combining a Fleur-de-lis
with some loops and triangles, is a fictitious logo of the so-called "Priory
of Sion," a hoax organization created by would be royal Pierre
Plantard, apparently for purposes of self-aggrandizement.
Made
famous by books such as "the DaVinci Code" and "Holy Blood, Holy
Grail," the Priory of Sion is supposedly a secret fraternal order that
protects the descendents of Jesus
and Mary Magdalen. Plantard is rumored to have snuck forged documents relating
to this 'organization' into France's Bibliothèque Nationale, including
a fantastic list if "Grand Masters" that included painter Leonardo
DaVinci and novelist Victor Hugo amongst other luminaries of art, music, and
literature. The aim of these creations appeared to be to establish Plantard
as a lost son of royalty, and was just one of Plantard's many weird projects.
There
was once a real "Priory of Sion," a monastic order which may have
links with the Knights Templar- but the historical record is extraordinarily
vague, and there is no evidence of their survival beyonth the thirteenth century.
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