The Da Vinci Code
The instructions that Saunière revealed to Silas under threat, is actually a well-rehearsed lie, saying that the key isburied in the church of Saint-Sulpice under the obelisk in the ancient Rose Line (supposedly passed the prime meridian through Paris before being located in Greenwich. obelisk The message below contains just a reference to the Book of Job, which says: "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further." When Silas reads realizes he has been tricked.
The key is actually a cryptex, a cylindrical devicedesigned by Leonardo da Vinci to safely transport messages. To open it, the combination of rotating components labeled with the letters of the alphabet should be a word in correct order. If you open by force, an internal mechanism breaks a tube containing vinegar dissolving the message written on papyrus (but in reality the vinegar dissolves not papyrus). The rosewood box (or rosewood) where is thecryptex contains clues to the combination of the cryptex, written backwards, as did Leonardo in his diaries. While flying to England aboard Jet Sir Leigh Teabing, a member of the British Royal Academy of History, scholar on the subject of the Grail, Langdon solves the first puzzle that turns out to be "SOFIA", the ancient (and modern) Greek form of Sophie name, which also means 'wisdom'. Thecontains a smaller cryptex with a second riddle to solve their combination. This, he mentions an orb that should be in the tomb of a "knight buried by a Pope" does not refer to a medieval knight, but the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton, buried in Westminster Abbey, whose funeral was officiated by Alexander Pope (A. Pope, a pope, "a pope" in English). The orb refers to the apple observed by Newton says thatled him to formulate the law of universal gravitation and so the combination of the second cryptex is "APPLE" (pomum).
The Master is Sir Leigh Teabing, who discovered the identities of the leaders of the Priory of Sion hiding microphones in their offices. Teabing had contacted Bishop Aringarosa, belonging to Opus Dei and Silas protector, using a fake French accent to hide his identity andtricked him to fund the search for the Grail. Teabing never intended to give it, just took advantage of the desire of Opus Dei leader to find the Grail. Teabing assumed that the Priory had broken his promise to reveal to the world the truth about the Grail at the agreed time, so it devised the plan to steal the Grail documents and reveal itself to the world. Informed Silas that Langdon and Sophie were...
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