ANCIENT X-FILES TV Series 2015 Season 1 - Episode 1 - The Holy Grail And The Minotaur

Investigators are sent to try and uncover the truth surrounding two legends in the first part they ask, could the Valencia Chalice be the actual holy grail. The Holy Grail is traditionally thought to be the cup that Jesus Christ drank from at the Last Supper and that Joseph of Arimathea used to collect Jesus's blood at his crucifixion. We hear about Hitlers obsession with finding the grail said to be a source of great power. We learn that this version of the grail, their are many others is made from agate stone wich many Roman cups were made off around the period in question. Some believe the poem Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach when deciphered shows that the grail did indeed come to Spain and was sent there by St. Laurence, the glorious Spaniard martyred on a gridiron during the Valerian persecution in Rome in 258 AD.

Part 2 concerns the Minotaur of Greek legend or in this case the search for the labyrinth. The legend goes that after ascending the throne of the island of Crete, Minos competed with his brothers as ruler. Minos prayed to the sea god Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull as a sign of the god's favour. Minos was to sacrifice the bull to honor Poseidon, but owing to the bull's beauty he decided instead to keep him. Minos believed that the god would accept a substitute sacrifice. To punish Minos, Poseidon made Minos' wife Pasiphaë fall in love with the bull. Pasiphaë had the craftsman Daedalus fashion a hollow wooden cow, which she climbed into in order to mate with the bull. The monstrous Minotaur was the result. Pasiphaë nursed the Minotaur but he grew in size and became ferocious. As the unnatural offspring of a woman and a beast, the Minotaur had no natural source of nourishment and thus devoured humans for sustenance. Minos, following advice from the oracle at Delphi, had Daedalus construct a gigantic Labyrinth to hold the Minotaur. Its location was near Minos' palace in Knossos. The Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Various locations are considered and investigated with different levels of success.