![]() ![]() Also known as the pentagram, the pentacle may appear as an ancient symbol for the divine feminine it is also, however, “a sacred symbol of mind-body harmony” (e.g., for Pythagoras) and “a fundamental symbol” of the traditional five elements (light, air, wind, fire, and water in much Gnostic thought). ![]() Langdon’s explanation of this symbol seems largely correct, if oversimplified. The dominant image in the chapter-drawn on Saunière’s stomach in his own blood, and replicated by the way in which he positioned his nude body before dying-is the pentacle. Meanwhile, Agent Collet has sequestered himself in Saunière’s office, listening to and secretly recording Langdon and Fache’s conversation.Īnalysis: This chapter presents further exhibitions of Langdon’s symbological prowess now, however, Brown is moving us toward the mystery at hand. The message that is revealed (but not yet to readers) when Fache shines a black light over the crime scene delivers a further shock to the already stunned Langdon. Fache points out that the dead curator is clutching a black-light marker. Saunière’s body position doubles, or reinforces, the pentacle. Langdon tells Captain Fache that the pentacle is an ancient pre-Christian religious symbol, indicative of the feminine principle of religion. On his stomach, Saunière had painted in blood a pentacle (a five pointed star). Summary: In the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, Langdon examines Saunière’s nude corpse, still sprawled in the spread-eagle fashion that the victim himself arranged. ![]()
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