All 7 Uses of
banish
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Women, once celebrated as an essential half of spiritual enlightenment, had been banished from the temples of the world.†
Chpt 27-28 *
- Even so, embarrassed officials at Florence's Uffizi Gallery immediately banished the painting to a warehouse across the street.†
Chpt 39-40
- Knights who claimed to be "searching for the chalice" were speaking in code as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned nonbelievers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine."†
Chpt 55-56
- Langdon quickly told her about works by Da Vinci, Botticelli, Poussin, Bernini, Mozart, and Victor Hugo that all whispered of the quest to restore the banished sacred feminine.†
Chpt 61-62
- When Langdon had first seen The Little Mermaid, he had actually gasped aloud when he noticed that the painting in Ariel's underwater home was none other than seventeenth-century artist Georges de la Tour's The Penitent Magdalene—a famous homage to the banished Mary Magdalene—fitting decor considering the movie turned out to be a ninety-minute collage of blatant symbolic references to the lost sanctity of Isis, Eve, Pisces the fish goddess, and, repeatedly, Mary Magdalene.†
Chpt 61-62
- After a moment of stunned silence, Rémy skulked out like a banished dog.†
Chpt 61-62
- The sacred feminine… the chalice… the Rose… the banished Mary Magdalene… the decline of the goddess… the Holy Grail.†
Chpt 101-102
Definition:
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(banish) to expel or get rid ofin various senses, including:
- to force someone to leave a country as punishment
- to push an idea from the mind