The crime enmeshes hero Robert Langdon, a tweedy professor of symbolism from Harvard, and the victim’s granddaughter, burgundy-haired cryptologist Sophie Nevue. The Da Vinci Code opens with the grisly murder of the Louvre’s curator inside the museum. Therefore Brown claims that “the quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene,” a conclusion that would surely have surprised Sir Galahad and the other Grail knights who thought they were searching for the Chalice of the Last Supper. Over the centuries, the Grail-keepers have been guarding the true (and continuing) bloodline of Christ and the relics of the Magdalen, not a material vessel. She was the vessel that held the blood of Jesus Christ in her womb while bearing his children. And that container has a name every Christian will recognize, for Brown claims that the Holy Grail was actually Mary Magdalene. In doing so, Brown inverts the insight that a woman’s body is symbolically a container and makes a container symbolically a woman’s body. But his book is more than just the story of a quest for the Grail-he wholly reinterprets the Grail legend.
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