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A Chalice As A Religious Icon Summary
A Chalice as a Religious Icon
A Chalice

A chalice is an amazing icon for religions. Not only is ita sacred cup, representing the blood of Christ for Christians but it also represents goddesses and other secular images in others. A chalice represents many religions. Like Christianity, the Wicca, Catholicism, and Neo-Paganism, and much more use some representation of the chalice. Some of these religions you probably never even heard of. In some of these religions, a chalice is just as important as the deity itself.
The Wiccans
Here is a example. In the Wiccan religion “ the chalice, cauldron, or cup is a symbol of the Goddess, the womb, and the female reproductive organs. It also represents water witch is a female element and the feminine qualities
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In a Russian religion called Theotokos “The Inexhaustible Chalice is the holiest icon of the Theotokos, and was revealed in Russia in 1878. The story tells of goes as a retired soldier from Tula who had spent his entire pension on alcohol, ruining his health and making him unable to walk. One night, a holy elder appeared to him in a dream and told him to go to Serpukhov monastery of the Mother of God. Crawling on all fours, the man reached the next village and stayed in the home of an old woman. She rubbed his legs and he began to feel better.” (cite your source) The story goes on to tell that where he was now able to walk due to the power of the chalice. The chalice to them is miraculous pretty much the ultimate doctor. It can heal anyone who is deserving everybody and everything so long as they deserve it. The man fought for freedom for his country, so he deserved to have his legs and mobility back. The Chalice gave him this gift. That was that story of the old Russian …show more content…
Another story but it's a great book with another great movie. “In the Da Vinci Code, the Holy Grail is neither an object nor an objective. It symbolizes an earth-shattering secret. Mary Magdalene bore a child with Jesus.” The book, written by Dan Brown, is told during the height of Catholic controversy in Vatican nation, Rome, Italy. In that book the have the same religion as the Americans. But the chalice isn't a good representative but a shocking secret. The “Holy Grail,” believed to be the chalice used for the drink at the Last Supper, is found to be a “symbolic” chalice: The womb of Mary Magdalene. The novel purports that there are living So people in their world are actually blood relatives of Jesus. The story pretty much begins vegans when a group called “Priory of Sion” has there grand master shot to death. They go into a investigation. They get to the point were they go and search the religion. That's where they found about Jesus's

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