what is the davinchi code all about?
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It is a very interesting mystery that involves an age old cult, and Christianity and its beliefs come into question as they clash with some pagan ones.  There is a good amount of interesting things about that period in history, overall a very good book, If you really want to understand it I recommend that you read it.
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This is the most important part of Da vanci code:\n\nwhen the santatic verses were published there was a price on the head of the author.\n\nwhen the Hindu goddess was painted nude...there were big protest in India.\n\nbut when christian believers are put down...every one say it should be taken as a art, book, fiction, movie etc and many wants to talk freedom of speech, its over the limit...and American are so foolish to talk like this..\n\nits so funny...
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Yes I've read it. It was written in 1983 or something and contains much of what The Da Vince Code is all about. It centers around a mystery the writers found in a southern French town, and some documents claimed to be found by a Priest named Sauniere (Dan Brown even used similar names in his novels). It is fairly interesting, but written like a historical documentary, so it is not like the page-turner written by Dan Brown. I think Mr. Brown used much of the information of this book and others to make The Da Vince Code. The guys who wrote Holy Blood, Holy Grail even tried to sue him, but failed.
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Could it be...the DaVinci Code...
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The Da Vinci Code is a mystery/detective novel by American author Dan Brown, published in 2003 by Doubleday Fiction. It is a worldwide bestseller with more than 60.5 million copies in print (as of May 2006) and has been translated into 44 languages. Combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy theory genres, the book is part two of a trilogy that started with Brown's 2000 novel Angels and Demons, which introduced the character Robert Langdon. In November 2004, Random House published a "Special Illustrated Edition", with 160 illustrations interspersed with the text.\n\nThe plot of the novel involves a conspiracy by the Catholic Church to cover up the "true" story of Jesus. The Vatican knows it is living a lie but does so to keep itself in power. The novel has helped generate popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity. Fans have lauded the book as creative, action-packed and thought-provoking. Critics have attacked it as inaccurate, sacrilegious and decry the many negative implications about the Catholic Church and Opus Dei.\n\nDan Brown's novel was a smash hit in 2003, even rivaling the sales of the highly popular Harry Potter series. It spawned a number of offspring books and drew glowing reviews from the New York Times, the People Magazine and Washington Post . The novel has also inspired several tour groups like Da Vinci Code tours, and companies like Ravenchase Adventures to create Da Vinci code like races and adventures using codes, ciphers, actors and gadgets. It also re-ignited interest in the history of the Catholic Church. As well as re-invigorating interest in the church, The Da Vinci Code has also spawned numerous "knockoffs" (as they are referred to by Publishers Weekly) , or novels that have a striking resemblance to The Da Vinci Code, including Raymond Khoury's The Last Templar, and The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry.\n\nSony's Columbia Pictures has adapted the novel to film, with a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman, and Academy Award winner Ron Howard directing. The film is set for release on May 19, 2006, and will star Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, Audrey Tautou as Sophie Neveu, and Sir Ian McKellen as Leigh Teabing.\n\nPlot summary\nSpoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.\n\nThe book concerns the attempts of Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious Symbology at Harvard University, to solve the murder of renowned curator Jacques Saunière (see Bérenger Saunière) of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The title of the novel refers, among other things, to the fact that Saunière's body is found in the Denon Wing of the Louvre naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a Pentagram drawn on his stomach in his own blood. The interpretation of hidden messages inside Leonardo's famous works, including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, figure prominently in the solution to the mystery.\n\nThe main conflict in the novel revolves around the solution to two mysteries:\n\n•What secret was Saunière protecting that led to his murder? \n\n•Who is the mastermind behind his murder? \n\nThe novel has several concurrent storylines that follow different characters. Eventually all the storylines are brought together and resolved with the denouement.\n\nThe unraveling of the mystery requires the solution to a series of brain-teasers, including anagrams and number puzzles. The solution itself is found to be intimately connected with the possible location of the Holy Grail and to a mysterious society called the Priory of Sion, as well as to the Knights Templar. The Catholic organization "Opus Dei" (a caricature of the real Opus Dei) also figures prominently in the plot.\n\nThe novel is the second book of a trilogy by Brown in which Robert Langdon is the main character. The previous book, A
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The first thing to remember about the "Da Vinci Code" is that it is a novel -- that is, fiction.  Much of the elaborate conspiracy / secret society / code apparatus of the novel comes from a book called "Holy Blood Holy Grail."  How much of all of that is true is open to argument; it is probably true that most religious / historical scholars reject it as fantasy.  A lot depends on how much secret conspiracy you are willing to believe permeates the world.\n\nThe web is full of writings on this subject, both pro and con the existence of the "code."  Poke around for a couple of hours and you can draw your own conclusion.  In sources are a few places to start.
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But what's the book about?
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You can go to the following site and read completely:\n\nhttp://www.idlebrain.com/mumbai/legends/gurudutt/index.html
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It's a book that suggests all this "contoversial" stuff about the Catholic church and Christianity. One of the claims, is that Jesus had a romantic relationship with a woman (I think it's Mary Magdelin) and that she is depicted in DeVinci's painting of the last supper. One of the desciples is painted with more feminine features than the rest. It's a good but long read, and if you go to Rome or Paris you can take DaVinci Code tours to help you see what some of the art, places ect. in the book.
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It is a book that was just made into a movie-it is fiction- but hidden in D'vinci's paintings is a code that when they de-sifer it claims to be proof that Christ was a mere mortal and the whole consept of him being the son was God was a haux.\nSome want to expose the Hoax to the world and others want to protect the secret so that religion stays in tact.\nI need to see the movie to get the whole story but that's the basics.
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http://www.masterpath.org/\n\nhttp://www.masterpath.org/sriGaryOlsen/\n\ni skimmed it, and it seems to be one of those new-age-let's-combine-some-of-the-more-"occulty"-practices-and-philosophies-with-christianity-somehow thangs.\n\ni did a brief search to generate the two sites.  read 'em and see what y'think.
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Its about the theory that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene & their blood line still exists protected by a secret society called Priority of Sion. \n\nThough this is the main theme od Da Vinci Code, there are also many controversial facts such as Jesus was a mortal just like any of us, the church has been putting down the role of women in the society & many such things.\n\nIts worth a read, very intresting.
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It is a book that is a great murder-mystery story w/ hidden codes.  It talks about these secret brotherhoods (which ARE real) and a secret that they must protect.  I don't believe anything they say when they talk about Mary Magdeline, Jesus, or Sarah.
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There's a good book by Simon Singh, titled The Code Book that goes through the entire history of cryptography and some of the background.  His website also has information and links on crypto theory.  If you're looking for the most up to date information, ie on elliptical cryptography though or RSA do a search on scholar.google.com for the actual papers.
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It could be most of it fiction or reality.Still yet, whe don`t know if The Holy Grail really existed.Holly Blood And Holly Grail is the main book used in  Dan`s Brown book"The DaVinci Code".
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I don't believe it.  Through the ages there has been phophesy as well as factual history recorded.  Why would the DiVinci codes not be widely known or atleast very widely speculated?  It hasn't been.  It is only through media hype and sacreligion that it has gained huge popularity.
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Its a Fiction movie!\n\nThe Da Vinci Code challenges Jesus' identity and deeds, the content of the Bible, the origin of the church, the motives of early Christian leaders and the relevance of the church today — but it does so without any historical, logical or theological credibility.