All 9 Uses
Isis
in
The Da Vinci Code
(Edited)
- …and an astonishing array of statues depicting Horus being nursed by the goddess Isis.
Chpt 4Isis = Egyptian goddess of fertility and more
- 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
Definitions:
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(Isis) Egyptian mythology: an important goddess of fertility, protector of sailors, and more; also took the role of goddess of the dead and of funeral rights when her husband, Osiris died
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) ISIS is also used to reference the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (or just the Islamic State). It is a transnational militant Islamist terrorist group and former unrecognized quasi-state.