Resumo de The Da Vinci Code

Back ground: Christanity believes that Jesus was an ascetic
who never treaded a family life and died single. But a
small sect priory of sion is privy to the fact that he was
a married man with bloodline relatives. The Holy Grail
refers to Mary Magdalene who held his blood in her womb.
The priory of sions had kept that fact a closely guarded
secret and their existence is not even known to the modern
world.

The book:
The Da Vinci code says, Jesus was just an ordinary man, who
was not divine,did not die for sins and was not
resurrected. The story is about the murder of a curator
Jacques Sauniere, within Louvre museum and an unusual code
was found near his dead body including a name, Robert
Langdon, written in blood. A Harvard symbologist, was
summoned at the dead hours of night by French police as his
name was Robert Langdon. The young and flamboyant
professor, the hero of the book was threatened with arrest
as police is convinced with his involvement in the
murder.The tension builds up.

To prove innocence Langdon gets unexpected help. The
beautiful granddaughter of the murdered curator happens to
be a gifted cryptologist working with the French police.
She teams up with Langdon and decides to find the actual
murderer by solving the clues.

The process of investigations runs into deep trouble. The
omniscient hand of a powerful invisible opponent seemed to
thwart each and every effort. Time was running short for
Langdon and the suspense peaks.

As the couple continue their worldwide chase for the
evidence of murder, they relaise that a dreaded secret
awaits unravelling. A delay on their part might result in
the irreversible loss of valuable documents.

Finally the pieces of puzzle come together. It became known
that Jesus did not die a bachelor. And the claim of his
messiah hood is also not uncontested. He didnot even die on
the cross. Survived by some miraculous power after three
days of suffering, he had been able to reach a woman, his
wife, Mary Magdalene. The child the woman was carrying was
also his blood and Mary Magdalene had seen him before his
disciples could do so.

The answer to the question - why the lineage of the great
messiah was kept a secret was the clue to the murder.
Investigations reveal the murdered man was a supreme chief
of the present day priory of sions who were the protectors
of the Jesus's family. The glorification of Jesus was
closely associated with his dying on the cross as a chaste
man. There was a possibility that his wife and bloodline
descendants would have yielded power and respect if the
facts were revealed. The male dominated church of the time
which controlled the social powers were concerned that Mary
Magdalene, being a female, may rise to dominance because of
his connection with Jesus. As her association with Jesus
was a public fact and cannot be suppressed they conspired
to label her as a prostitute. To make it doubly sure they
banned the female goddess worship in christanity.

The protectors of the Jesus's family were progressive
intellectuals who were outnumbered by the dominant church
of the first five centuries. So the Knight of Templer, who
were protecting the Holy Grail kept it within the
community. Later on the relatives become a part of the
French Royal family and the documents passed on to the
group of intellectuals like Boticelli, Victor Hugo, Sir
Isaac Newton, Great Leonardo Da Vinci among others. The
great Vatican vaguely knew of its existence and was
concerned that his exposition will challenge their
authority as well as the image of Christianity. Da Vinci
kept it secret during his time but left clues of its
existence in many of his famous paintings including Mona
Lisa and the last supper. He hoped that when at a later
period when world will be more logical and less orthodox,
the deciphering of the hidden clues would reveal one of te
most important facts of humanity and exonerate a great
woman who had been a victim of a mean conspiracy of
powerful people.

The suspense thriller doesnot only provide us the moments
of tension and anxiety. There is an undercurrent of
romanticism between Macho man intellectual and the
Beautiful heroine Sophie Neveu who was found to be a
descendant of the Jesus.

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