The Vitruvian Man Symbol

4.4.8. The Star of David

The Star of David or the seal of Solomon is the perfect example of unification between male and female. Its picture comes from the unification of blade and chalice. Blade is the symbol of masculine and chalice is the symbol of feminine. They are fuse as one to create balance and harmony. It is stated by quotation below: The blade and chalice. Fused as one. The Star of David... the perfect union of male and female... Solomons Seal... marking the Holy of Holies, where the male and female deities —Yahweh and Shekinah—were thought to dwell. Brown, 2003: 446

4.4.9. Left

Left usually used to show directions. It is the opposite of right. In The Da Vinci Code novel, left always has bad meaning. The word “left” in France and Italy is gauche and sinistra. Those words also have deep negative meaning. It always relates to evil. It can be seen from the quotation below: Not even the feminine association with the left-hand side could escape the Churchs defamation. In France and Italy, the words for left —gauche and sinistra—came to have deeply negative overtones, while their right-hand counterparts rang of righteousness, dexterity, and correctness. To this day, radical thought was considered left wing, irrational thought was left brain, and anything evil, sinister. Brown, 2003: 125 Sacred feminine is everything relates to women and their role that has not been acknowledge or honored by people. From that definition, we can conclude that there are many symbol of sacred feminine in the novel. All of the sacred feminine symbols will be as follows: First is Sophie Neveu. Sophie Neveu is one of character in The Da Vinci Code novel. She is granddaughter of Jacques Sauniere, the curator of Louvre Museum. She belongs to sacred feminine symbol because her name is rooted from the goddess of wisdom, Sophia. Next is Holy Grail. Holy Grail is one of sacred feminine symbols. It is because Holy Grail, based on the novel, is a woman. It is related with its symbol. The symbol of Holy Grail is a chalice, an ancient feminine symbol that shapes like “V” letter. It represents the woman’s womb. The role of a woman as a life giver, give a man birth to world, is same as like God’s power that create man and give him life in world. Her role once is considered as sacred. The other symbol of sacred feminine is Rosa Rugosa. This rose has five petal and they create pentagonal symmetry. The pentagonal symmetry or known as pentacle is the symbol of Venus, the goddess of sexual love and beauty. The Rose also represents the woman’s genitalia, where a man enters the world for the first time he was born. The unification of male and female is represented by the Mona Lisa. Its name was the anagram of Egyptian god and goddess. They are Amon and Isis, the god and goddess of fertility. Once, Isis’ pictogram was L’isa. The unification of male and female can also be seen in word Hermaphrodite. The word comes from the name of Greek god and goddess, they are Hermes and Aphrodite.