In 2004, Dan Brown's best-selling book, The Da Vinci Code, refreshed interest in finding the Holy Grail, reshaping the medieval saga for a public often obsessed with pseudoscience, pseudo-history, and fantasy.
Unfortunately, the book is largely based on vaguely forged documents that have deceived millions of people.
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The adventure begins with the Paris police summoning Indiana-jones-style Robert Langdon to the Louvre to see the body of curator Jacques Saunier. Sonnier was murdered in bizarre circumstances. Soon, propelled by a series of puzzles and clues, Langdon and the beautiful cryptographer Sophie Neveau take readers on a treasure hunt across France and Britain that is refreshing.
In the process, the two seek a hidden "truth" that challenges mainstream Christianity. Brown drew heavily on the 1982 bestseller Holy Blood, the Holy Grail, co-authored in 1996 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, of which Lincoln was the concept author.
Brown's novel is based on a conspiracy theory involving Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Presumably, the Old French word "sangreal" is not interpreted as "holy grail", but rather "royal blood". Although the concept was not popular until the late Middle Ages, the Holy Blood, Grail holds that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and bore her a child, and that he may even have survived the cross. This "documentary" book claims that the children of Jesus thus began the bloodline of the Merovingian dynasty, which was successively ruled by several kings of present-day France from 481 to 751 AD.
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Evidence of divine ancestry is said to have been found in a pile of parchment documents, in the Pyrenees. This secret has been kept by a mysterious group called the Mount Gao Hermitage. The history of the Hermitage dates back to Templar times, and the former masters were Leonardo da Vinc, Isaac Newton, and Victor Hugo.
Brown grabbed Da Vinci and borrowed the first chapter of another pseudo-historical work, Leonardo da Vinci's Code, called The Templar Apocalypse. The painting was co-authored by "researchers" Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, whose previous absurd attempt was to claim that Da Vinci created the Shroud of Turin, although the forgery appeared nearly a century before the birth of this great artist and inventive genius!
Dan Brown used the "revelations" of Pikenett and Prince in The Da Vinci Code, one of which is Da Vinci's fresco The Last Supper, which contains hidden symbols related to the true secrets that are sung. For example, they claim that St. John in the painting (sitting at the right hand of Jesus) is actually a woman—Mary Magdalene! The shape made by "Mary" and Jesus is "a huge, open 'M,'" which is said to confirm this interpretation. By repeating this stupid approach, Brown infuriated critics, making them notice that his description revealed ignorance of his subject.
The whole basis of the Da Vinci Code: "Discovered" Rennes-le-Ch? It's part of a scam created by a man named Pierre Plantard. In 1956, Planta commissioned a friend to forge parchment, which he used to make up fake monastery stories. (See Carl E. Olson and Sandra Missell, The Da Vinci Hoax, 2004.) )
Of course, Dan Brown, author of The Holy Blood, The Holy Grail, and the Templar Apocalypse, was also deceived by the hermitage of Mount Phou, which in turn imposed on the reader. But he apparently didn't regret it, and his apologists pointed out that the Da Vinci Code was fictional after all, although at the beginning of the novel, Brown claimed that it was fact-based. Meanwhile, despite the devastating negative evidence, the da Vinci Code frenzy continues. Perhaps, Brown should continue his own quest until the moment the truth emerges.