Listening to : “The Scientist” by Coldplay I’m very sleepy today. It’s “high call” again!
Finished The Da Vinci Code. Or almost finished (just a few pages to go). Bit late I know, considering the hype started a few years ago. Very interesting read. An “alternative historical opinion”. A very well written “What If??” One thing is quite right though, the ego of “man” has been running unchecked for centuries (according to the book), by it’s female counterpart (the “goddess”). Come to think of it, early in history there were gods and goddesses (at least in many religious lore), but with the advent of christianity, we are now under the concept of one “God”. The book, was a tribute to the vanished “goddess” or the sacred feminine.
”The quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one.”
“…at it’s heart the quest for the Holy Grail has always been a quest for the Magdalene – the wronged Queen, entombed with the proof of her family’s rightful claim to power…”
-an excerpt from the book.
My sympathies go with Silas (the albino monk). Poor, poor guy. The “leading cast”, Robert Langdon & Sophie Neveu were very well crafted (both were complex and “real”). As were the mad-scientist-esque (or historian, in this case Sir Leigh Teabing (the book describes a portly man, but I keep seeing the movie counterpart, Sir Ian Mckellen in my mind’s eye – the evils of “movie-first”), the desperate Bishop Aringarosa and the well meaning but thoroughly misguided Silas.
6 Sep
