{"id":12318,"date":"2008-05-30T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T22:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/05\/30\/the-original-indy.html"},"modified":"2008-05-30T15:40:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T22:40:02","slug":"the_original_indy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/the_original_indy.html","title":{"rendered":"The Original Indy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The article doesn’t make it quite clear how they “know” that Otto Rahn was the inspiration for Indiana Jones<\/a> — he’s a bit more of a Belloq character, to my mind — but it’s a fascinating tale nonetheless.<\/p>\n

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Like Jones, Rahn was an archaeologist, like him he fell foul of the Nazis and like him he was obsessed with finding the Holy Grail – the cup reputedly used to catch Christ’s blood when he was crucified. But whereas Jones rode the Grail-train to box-office glory, Rahn’s obsession ended up costing him his life.<\/p>\n

However, Rahn is such a strange figure, and his story so bizarre, that simply seeing him as the unlikely progenitor of Indiana Jones is to do him a disservice. Here was a man who entered into a terrible Faustian pact: he was given every resource imaginable to realise his dream. There was just one catch: in return, he had to find something that – if it ever existed – had not been seen for almost 2,000 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nazis. I hate those guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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