Friday, September 29, 2006

The Da Vinci Code

Da Vinci Code is a pulse-quickening, brain teasing fictitious adventure. The very fact that it has been in the limelight, being the centre stage of lot of controversies, proclaims that it has some connection with our lives. It talks about the times of Jesus, about Mary Magdalene how they are related, what is the Holy Grail, what significance it has in the history and much more. This book is about how this confidential historic information has been conveyed by a dying old man to his grand daughter in forms of puzzles and verses, how she deciphers the hidden messages with the help of a well know symbologist. On the quest to solve the puzzles she unravels lot of true facts, which are hard to believe.

In the Louver museum, Paris its curator Jacques Sauniere has been assassinated and the curator leaves some cryptographic message seemingly for the investigating agencies to trace the murderer, but he indirectly involved his grand daughter Sophie Neveu, who happens to a cryptographist with the French police. The message was pointing to a symbologist, Robert Langdon, police believed to be the murderer but Sophie deciphered part of the message and in an attempt to solve rest of the puzzle, took Robert away from the police. They started on a quest to solve one of the biggest mysteries of all times. Sophie comes to know about the life of Jesus, the truth that he was married to Mary Magdalene, the romance between them conceived a daughter and their bloodline still exists. She also learns about how the church has been trying for centuries to hide this and destroy all the documents, which proves this fact. At times church also tried to destroy their bloodline. Apparently, the church was trying to destroy these facts because they feared that the Church would be feminised if Mary Magdalene took over the reins of Church after the crucification of Jesus and they considered it to be devilish.

Every attempt was made to defame Mary Magdalene, a lady from a royal family, as a poor whore. But the followers of Mary Magdalene tried to protect her identity and her history, this history is now been protected by a secret society called Priory; the sole purpose of this society was to protect the documents and the Holy Grail (the grave of Mary Magdalene), which proves these facts. At any time there are four members from the Priory who have the information about the Holy Grail and the documents, Jacques Sauniere happened to be the grand master of this society and he passed on the message to her granddaughter because the other three members have died recently, protecting this information.

Sophie and Robert unravel the history by deciphering the hidden message and during this they also come to know about the person behind these killings. She comes to know that she is one of the living offsprings of Jesus and to protect this bloodline her grandmother was living in hiding with her brother, who were declared dead with her parents in an accident. The priory thought that it was a murder disguised to be an accident and hence the family was living separately to protect the bloodline.

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