Someone told Luka that she ought to read this book where earth shattering secret messages were encoded on paintings. But a rebel as she is, she decided to make a web search first, and no later than sooner she found a more interesting interpretation of said messages.
Laura Knight Jadczyk writes:
The True Identity of Fulcanelli and The Da Vinci Code
[…] Many individuals have made much of the fact that this painting is supposed to depict Jesus dining with his “wife,” Mary Magdalene next to him. I certainly agree that the figure next to Jesus is obviously a woman, but is it Mary Magdalene? Or is it someone else? And is the clue meant to point to something else, something that was known then, and we only have the clues in the Stars, in myth and legend, and in a Cathedral in Auch?
Much has been made of the two “anomalous hands” in the painting by Leonardo da Vinci. One of these hands is found making a “cutting motion” at the throat of the woman seated next to Jesus. The other hand emerges holding a knife just behind the man seated to the woman’s right. If you use the hand with the knife, the hand making the cutting motion, the right hand of Jesus, his forehead, and the palm of his left hand as “points,” you have exactly the tracing of the constellation of Cassiopeia MIRRORED.
Cassiopeia is a beautiful constellation at the end of the Milky Way Galaxy and is associated with what is known as the Perseus Constellation Family. It is in the zodiacal sign of the Ram wherein one finds the stars Shedir, “The Breast,” (the star on the forehead of Jesus), Ruckbah, (knee) “The Enthroned,” (the star on the hand making the cutting motion at the throat of the woman next to Jesus), and Dat al-Cursa, “The Seated.” The Chinese called Cassiopeia Ko Taou, or a “doorway.” Some saw this constellation in the shape of a key.
The Arabic names of the main stars of Cassiopeia give some clues to the esoteric meaning of the constellation, among them being “breast,”(schedir-seder?) “hand,” “hump of the camel,” “knee,” and “elbow,” all of which are esoteric symbols found in many arcane works. The Arabs called the entire constellation the seder tree. Earlier Arabs thought that this constellation was “the large hand stained with henna,” the brightest stars being the fingertips.
It is quite in keeping with Da Vinci to have used “hands” to show a “hand.” What a marvelous construction of the Green Language, indeed!
Hanging nearly overhead in November’s mid-evening sky is the W-shaped constellation we know as Cassiopeia… Observers who face north will see the star called “Caph,” meaning the palm of a hand, on the left end of Cassiopeia’s upside-down “W.”
Interesting that there is the “palm of the hand” and the “palm branch,” located at the upturned palm of Jesus? Also strange that Cassiopeia is referred to as being an “upside down W rather than the more obvious M - an attempt to “hide” the relationship? […]
Intriguing; Luka ponders…
