New look for the first birthday
Dali House is celebrating its first birthday with a bit of renovation, but you just can’t get good decorators these days, can you? Where’s the quality, I ask you? As to the curator: I, your host and innkeeper, Paul Dorsey, was born in Burnley, northern England, raised just outside Toronto, Canada, and now live and work in Bangkok, Thailand.
one year on
I was going to be an artist, but didn’t find a patron quick enough to save me from a life of journalism and the abject poverty that goes with it. Thank God blogging’s free.
The last time I picked up a paintbrush myself, the results were good but not nearly as good as they’d been back in college, so these days I only get creative with the blog and Photoshop.
My main blog is Dorseyland, but all the art stuff is here at the Dali House. Please don’t take anything here too seriously; this house is congenial, not collegiate. I’m more likely to act the fool than get academic.
Also, assume that all images are copyrighted — I try to give due credit and will speak up where I think extra caution is necessary.
You can contact me by clicking on “Get in touch” at the top of the menu. To take a tour of all of the Dorseyland provinces, board the electric tram here.
I am surprised and pleased to be on your site.Jacque Parsley
I am surprised and delighted to have you here, and in person, Jacque. I’ve corrected the spelling of your given name and included you in the Guest Registry so others can easily find your charming assemblage. I’d love to see more! Thanks for visiting
The Shepherd’s Monument Mystery – Solved.
I was reading Holy Blood and the Holy Grail when I came across the “mystery” of the bas relief based on Poussin’s painting “Les Bergers d’Acadie. The authors said that the inscription DOUSOVAVVM was impossible to decipher, even with a computer. This sounded too wild to be true and I took the challenge of solving the mystery, without a computer. It took four hours, hardly impossible to decipher. My proof is listed below, I will not go into details of the references, they can easily be found on the Internet.
Clues to the Solution (not in order)
Ø Village of Rennes-le-Chateau is perched on a rocky outcrop
Ø Antoine Bigou miscarved the date MDCCLXXI as MDCOLXXXI. He changed C to O (not a Roman Numeral) and added an extra X or number 10
Ø Poussin painted Les Bergers d’Acadie – the title is French
Ø Sauniere discovered a parchment “…Poussin…hold the KEY”
Ø Location of Poussin painting in Les Pointls, near Rennes-le-Chateau
Ø A reverse bas relief carving of Les Bergers d’Acadie is located at Shughburough house near Staffordshire England
Ø There are eight letters on one line of the bas relief, two letters on next line
Ø Sauniere decoded the messages and found the Grail even though he was not a Templar initiate – he did not possess the esoteric knowledge thought to be needed
Solution (Order of learning the first five clues is unimportant: The last step can not be deciphered until the first five are understood, and you have the KEY.)
1. Bigou replaced C with O and added reference to number 10 - CLUE
2. There are 10 letters on inscription, eight on one line – CLUE
3. Poussin painted Les Bergers d’Acadie - CLUE
4. Bas relief is a “REVERSE” of Poussin’s painting – CLUE
5. Bas relief has a casket obscuring view of Rennes le Chateau – CLUE
6. Sauniere parchment refers to Poussin – KEY
7. Replacing O with C in the eight-letter word and reading it REVERSED (i.e. upside down and mirrored) gives for the first line: AAVACSNC. This is an anagram in French “Ca Canvas” (That Picture). The bas-relief in England is obscuring the location of the Holy Grail in France - SOLUTION
No esoteric knowledge needed.
Solution by Ed McGrath May 16, 2007 (not Jan 17th)
That’s amazing, Ed, and thankyou for sharing it here. I trust you’ve been in touch with the people at Shugborough — although they may not be in a hurry to find a solution, the “mystery” helping to pull in the tourists! But a lot of people would be interested in this.
Hey thanks for featuring I AM WE and good luck with your site! Oh by the way I am weird and crazy! LOL!
Best,
Jim
You’re welcome, James. I see the website where I found your painting, beinArt International Surrealist Art Collective — http://beinart.org/index.php — is currently under maintenance, which I’m betting will only make it better. You keep up the amazing work, as seen in Dali House here: http://tinyurl.com/2sqwq9
I really enjoyed browsing through your website. I’ll try to set up a link to it on my website Surrealism-Plays.com. Keep up the good work.