All 25 Uses of
tradition
in
The Da Vinci Code
- The controversial, neomodern glass pyramid designed by Chinese-born American architect I. M. Pei still evoked scorn from traditionalists who felt it destroyed the dignity of the Renaissance courtyard.†
Chpt 3
- Earlier this evening, within the sanctuary of his penthouse apartment, Bishop Manuel Aringarosa had packed a small travel bag and dressed in a traditional black cassock.†
Chpt 5
- Opus Dei's traditionalist philosophy initially had taken root in Spain before Franco's regime, but with the 1934 publication of Josemaría Escrivá's spiritual book The Way—999 points of meditation for doing God's Work in one's own life—Escrivá's message exploded across the world.†
Chpt 5
- Da Vinci had always been an awkward subject for historians, especially in the Christian tradition.†
Chpt 8 *
- When diagrammed inside a circle, these thirtytwo points of the compass perfectly resembled a traditional thirty-two petal rose bloom.†
Chpt 21-22
- SO DARK THE CON OF MAN "Sophie," Langdon said, "the Priory's tradition of perpetuating goddess worship is based on a belief that powerful men in the early Christian church 'conned' the world by propagating lies that devalued the female and tipped the scales in favor of the masculine."†
Chpt 27-28
- The head of this key was not the traditional long-stemmed Christian cross but rather was a square cross—with four arms of equal length—which predated Christianity by fifteen hundred years.†
Chpt 33-34
- The Depository Bank of Zurich was a twenty-four-hour Geldschrank bank offering the full modern array of anonymous services in the tradition of the Swiss numbered account.†
Chpt 41-42
- Keystones had always had a tradition of secrecy.†
Chpt 47-48
- By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.†
Chpt 55-56
- During this fusion of religions, Constantine needed to strengthen the new Christian tradition, and held a famous ecumenical gathering known as the Council of Nicaea.†
Chpt 55-56
- Of course, the Vatican, in keeping with their tradition of misinformation, tried very hard to suppress the release of these scrolls.†
Chpt 55-56
- Langdon's Jewish students always looked flabbergasted when he first told them that the early Jewish tradition involved ritualistic sex.†
Chpt 73-74
- Langdon decided not to shock his students with the fact that more than a dozen secret societies around the world—many of them quite influential—still practiced sex rites and kept the ancient traditions alive.†
Chpt 73-74
- Traditional American Thanksgiving tables still bore pagan, horned fertility symbols.†
Chpt 75-76
- It uses a traditional Roman alphabet.†
Chpt 77-78
- The photo showed the main entrance of a Gothic cathedral—the traditional, recessed archway, narrowing through multiple, ribbed layers to a small doorway.†
Chpt 79-80
- The Templars ignored the traditional Christian cruciform layout and built a perfectly circular church in honor of the sun.†
Chpt 81-82
- The altar boy hesitated, well acquainted with Father Knowles' deep observance of church tradition… and, more importantly, with his foul temper when anything cast this time-honored shrine in anything but favorable light.†
Chpt 83-84
- Although the altar layout resembled that of a linear Christian chapel, the furnishings were stark and cold, bearing none of the traditional ornamentation.†
Chpt 83-84
- Keeping architectural tradition, the abbey was laid out in the shape of a giant crucifix.†
Chpt 97-98
- Built by the Knights Templar in 1446, the chapel is engraved with a mind-boggling array of symbols from the Jewish, Christian, Egyptian, Masonic, and pagan traditions.†
Chpt 103-104
- This longitudinal Rose Line is the traditional marker of King Arthur's Isle of Avalon and is considered the central pillar of Britain's sacred geometry.†
Chpt 103-104
- Rosslyn Chapel was a shrine to all faiths… to all traditions… and, above all, to nature and the goddess.†
Chpt 103-104
- The sénéchaux were traditionally men—the guardians—and yet women held far more honored status within the Priory and could ascend to the highest post from virtually any rank.†
Chpt 105
Definition:
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(tradition) a long-established or previously long-established practice or belief
and/or:
one or more practices, beliefs, or stories passed down through generations within a specific culture or group