The Da Vinci Code and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

The Di Vinci Code the 2003 Dan Brown Novel is now a www.sonypictures.com film, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks as Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon and Audrey Tatou as the premiere french cryptologist Sophie Neveu  in the search for the answer to the question the The Da Vinci Code raises: Did Jesus and Mary Magdalene marry and have a daughter whose descendants are living among us now? Have the past and present-day churches kept this information from us for eighteen-hundred years?

A guardian of these secrets, Jacques Sauniere, a curator at the prestigious Louvre Museum in Paris is murdered and the brush stokes of Leonardo Da Vinci detail the answer with cryptic clues. All this takes place within only 48 hours a sequence of the highest art, Renaissance painting rendezvoused with the history of the world's major religion nascent origins in a thrilling narrative. Biblical specialist Sir Leigh Teabing prophetically played by Ian McKellan.

As we say in west coast wording, what is the backstory? We assume that since males dominate the higher echelons of the world's religions today that this state was always thus. In The Alphabet Versus the Goddess By Dr. Leonard Shlain The Conflict Between Word and Image (ISBN 040196013 Penguin) is non-fictionally related to us and brings us to the biblical time of Joshua Ben-Joseph and Mary Magdalene. 

Where have all the Goddesses gone? Who removed them from their pedestals? Dr. Leonard Shlain, the father of the modern Goddess Movement, literaturally answers that in 35 chapters starting with: 1 IMAGE/Word through 35 PAGE/SCREEN, dichotomies.