小說讀完了，電影還沒看，美國報章雜誌的影評都那麼差，有點提不起勁去買票。

不過看到稻柏臨 談＂性＂：關於＂夜店與嫖妓之我見https://city.udn.com/v1/blog/article/article.jsp?uid=scliao&f_ART_ID=278180&#reply_list

「性趣」可來了! 週末，老男人們在家紙上談兵。

以下請EQ、HQ、IQ及年齡低過21的小朋友存檔到老的時候再看!

中學讀老弟買的一大套「西洋文明史」，講到「神女」的典故，曾覺得不可思議!在「達文西密碼」書中又看到了: (英文平裝本第74章，336頁)

"Jewish tradition involved ritualistic sex. In the Temple, no less. Early Jews believed that Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple housed not only God but also His powerful female equal, Shekinah. Men seeking spiritual wholeness came to the Temple to visit priestesses - or hierodules - with whom they made love and experienced the divine through physical union."

妓女是落魄的古代女祭司，和酒一樣，能放大一個人的「酒品」，押妓時也會顯現出男人的「人性」、「神性」或「獸性」。

女主角Sophie有10年不理會從小撫養她的親爺爺直到他被謀殺在羅浮宮美術館館長任上，因為一次提前放春假，要給老人家驚喜，卻看到了不該看的事件(32章)，作者賣了好幾次關子，一直到第74章，才藉古符號專家(symbologist)藍登(Langdon)教授的口講出來。

爺爺裸體仰臥，身上騎著一位扭動吟誦咒語的銀髮女人，在一群圍觀禱告朝拜蒙面的男女中間行「春秋大禮」。

希臘文稱【Hieros Gamos】。

是兩千年前，埃及的男女祭司奉侍生殖女神Isis (圖左)的例行儀式。

歷史上，性交一度被視為雌雄同體的圓滿可達到通神的境界! 為什麼作愛能通神呢?

在古埃及生殖女神Isis的時代，作愛是人通往天堂的唯一橋樑。因為在達到性高潮時，心中會有空白的一剎那，會看到神*!

Sophie一臉懷疑的問:「拿性高潮當禱告?」

不像現在的性教育課偏重肉體衛生和避孕技巧。老祖宗們比較天真好玩吧!

英文附註:

Hieros Gamos had nothing to do with eroticism. It was a spiritual act. Historically, intercourse was the act through which male and female experienced God..........Since the days of Isis, sex rites had been considered man's only bridge from earth to heaven. " By communing with woman," Langdon said, "man could achieve a climactic instant when his mind went totally blank and he could see God."

Sophie looked skeptical. "Orgasm as prayer?" 

*絕不是我!