Corbenic

by Brian Edward Rise

 
In the Vulgate Cycle, the mysterious, magical castle where the Fisher King keeps the Grail. It is here that Galahad rejoins the broken sword in the Queste del Saint Graal. In Malory, Lancelot and Bors travel to Corbenic but the Grail is not fully revealed to them. The name may be derived from “cor benoit” or “blessed body” a reference to the transubstantiation of the body of Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist. Joseph of Arimathea took Jesus’ body from the cross and is said to have borne the Grail to Britain. This miraculous body is also said to inhabit the Grail.

Cychreus

by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.

 
According to the myths Cychreus was the son of the god Poseidon and the nymph Salamis, the daughter of the river-god Asopus. Cychreus became a legendary king of the biggest island in the Saronic Gulf — Salamis — and he was worshiped there as a mysterious divine hero. In this mythological story the island was named after Cychreus’ mother, the nymph Salamis, but the place was also called “the Snake Island” in relation to the following myth about the king Cychreus. (Originally, the island Salamis took its name from the Phoenician emigrants coming there from Cyprus, for them this place was schalam, “peaceful.”)