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The Da Vinci Code

Sauniere and Langdon were supposed to have dinner that evening. Robert Langdon is a famous symboligist that had studied the history of the Holy Grail. Sauniere assumed the Robert Langdon would help his granddaughter solve the mystery of the location of the Holy Grail. Instead Robert Langdon becomes the number one suspect of the Paris police. Sophie and Robert escape the Paris police by throwing Robert's tracking device (slipped into Robert's pocket by a police officer) onto a moving truck. The police watching Robert's every movement on a computer screen think Robert has jumped out the window. The police go chasing the truck carrying the tracking device while Robert and Sophie investigate the crime scene.
             Robert and Sophie use some of the numbers scribbled by Sanuiere to open a bank vault. The numbers formed the famous Fibonacci sequence. The bank vault contains a box holding a cryptex. Leonardo DaVinci invented the cryptex. A cryptex is a way of keeping a message secret. If a person puts in the wrong password, the cryptex contains vile vinegar that will destroy the paper inside. The cryptex was a good way for keeping correspondence a secret. Robert and Sophie have the task of trying to find the passwords to the cryptex (the first one contains a second one) and then interpreting the poems written inside. Leonardo DaVinci is so important to this book because of the clues left in the Last Supper, his invention of the cryptex and because of clues left in the Mona Lisa. Historians believe that early European peasants practiced paganism, including Leonardo DaVinci. Historians also believe that Pagans of that time worshipped the sacred female of femininity. The Mona Lisa is named after Anon and Isis, the female and male fertility Gods. The Mona Lisa's smile is covering up DaVinci's secret. DaVinci painted this pagan symbol once the church had become to powerful to challenge. Many people believe that the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa have been altered to cover up DaVinci's antichurch message.


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