All 9 Uses of
Isis
in
The Da Vinci Code
- …relating to fertility, goddess cults, Wicca, and the sacred feminine, but during his twenty-year tenure as curator, Saunière had helped the Louvre amass the largest collection of goddess art on earth—labrys axes from the priestesses' oldest Greek shrine in Delphi, gold caducei wands, hundreds of Tjet ankhs resembling small standing angels, sistrum rattles used in ancient Egypt to dispel evil spirits, and an astonishing array of statues depicting Horus being nursed by the goddess Isis.†
Chpt 4
- Built over the ruins of an ancient temple to the Egyptian goddess Isis, the church possesses an architectural footprint matching that of Notre Dame to within inches.†
Chpt 19-20
- "It was Isis," Langdon told them, grabbing a grease pen.†
Chpt 25-26 *
- And the female goddess, Isis, whose ancient pictogram was once called L'ISA.†
Chpt 25-26
- Still others claimed that X rays of the Mona Lisa revealed she originally had been painted wearing a lapis lazuli pendant of Isis—a detail Da Vinci purportedly later decided to paint over.†
Chpt 39-40
- On the mantel above the fireplace, an alabaster bust of Isis watched over the room.†
Chpt 53-54
- Pictograms of Isis nursing her miraculously conceived son Horus became the blueprint for our modern images of the Virgin Mary nursing Baby Jesus.†
Chpt 55-56
- 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
- Since the days of Isis, sex rites had been considered man's only bridge from earth to heaven.†
Chpt 73-74
Definition:
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(Isis) Egyptian mythology: goddess of fertility and protector of sailors; took the role of goddess of the dead and of funeral rights when her husband, Osiris died