the hidden meaning of characters of The Da Vinci Code: (tagsa-tagsaon lang nato ha kay di ko paspas mo-type)
Jacques Sauniere
According to local legend, the Abbe Berenger Sauniere, a poor parish priest, was doing some repairs in 1891 in the village church at Rennes-le-Chateau, a southern French town. He found some parchments that he took to the abbe of the church of Saint Sulpice in Paris to be deciphered.
Abbe Sauniere subsequently became wealthy, and it was supposed that the parchments had contained valuable secrets.
Robert Langdon
the author, dan brown, pays homage to John Langdon (a real person), who created the stunning ambigrams for the book Angels and Demons.
Bezu Fache
Mount Bezu is a mountain very near Rennes-le-Chateau; it has at least two aspects of significance. One is that a Templar stronghold was built there. It is also one of five mountaintops said to form a perfect pentacle in the area. Grand Fache is a mountain in the Pyrenees, not far from Andorra (where Aringarosa found Silas) and not far from Rennes-le-Chateau, the village where the story of Abbe Sauniere arises.
Sophie Neveu
as is explained in the da vinci code, sofia means wisdom in greek, and has a female avatar in greek and other mythologies. various reporters have suggested that "neveu," in addition to approaching the word for "new" in french, may also suggest "new eve" - with all the resonances to the eve character in the bible and in myth. a second coming of eve, the rebirth of the sacred feminine, the female goddess of wisdom - all fitting distinctions for sophie neveu. indeed, she anagrams as, "Oh! Supine Eve."
sophia, portrayed as a mystical consort of christ, is found in a Nag Hammadi book considered as scripture by the Gnostics. it is called the Sophia (Wisdom) of Jesus Christ. in this document, sophia is the female half of an androgynous Christ, and known as "First Begettress Sophia, Mother of the Universe. some call her "Love."
Sophie neveu could herself be considered a Holy Grail under the definitions of The Da Vinci Code, as the vessel carrying the bloodline of Christ. at different times the book seems to lean strongly in the direction of suggesting that Sophie, as well as her brother in Scotland, are actually descended from the union of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. but then there is some fairly explicit prose suggesting that is not the case, just for balance. like many other things, it's a mystery.
Bishop Manuel Aringarosa
Aringa rosa is italian for "red herring." if the ultimate mastermind of the conspiracy is Teabing, then the work of Aringarosa and his minion, Silas, is the red herring of the plot. the name contains the "rose" phoneme in it as well. the bishop anagrams into "nausea" or "alarming" - two likely reactions one could have to his plot.
the two books are superb..
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