The Grail is first featured in Perceval, le Conte du Graal (The Story of the Grail) by Chrétien de Troyes
In this incomplete poem dated sometime between 1180 and 1191 the object has not yet acquired the implications of holiness it would have in later works
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While dining in the magical abode of the Fisher King, Perceval witnesses a wondrous procession in which youths carry magnificent objects from one chamber to another, passing before him at each course of the meal. First comes a young man carrying a bleeding
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lance, then two boys carrying candelabras (fancy candle holders) & finally a beautiful young girl emerges bearing an elaborately decorated Graal, what you say 'Grail'
Chrétien refers to this object not as "The Grail" but as 'a grail' (un graal)..
For Chrétien a Grail was a wide somewhat deep dish or bowl.
Chrétien's Grail held but a single Communion Wafer.
which provided sustenance for the Fisher King's crippled father
that isn't surprising because food sustenance & abundance come from the earth
what is surprising is exactly how lost you have all become
like i said
The Grail comes from word Graal, as it is earliest spelled comes from Old French 'Greal', meaning 'a cup or bowl of earth, wood, or metal'
Ie, Earth - google it up sometime 🥣not 🌏