Message #1296

[Tina Walter]

Bo really has a way with words.  I don't know if you've ever gotten around to seeing the Da Vinci Code yet, but the opening is all about symobols and their meaning.

Langdon (Tom Hanks) is running a slide show and shows a pitch fork and asks what it signifies. The French audience says "the devil, Satan!"

Hanks goes, "Poor, poor Poseidon." And pans lower to show the picture is one of Poseidon holding his trident, not the devil holding his pitchfork.

I think that Christianity has managed to taint a lot of the old pagan symbols.  In another thread we talked about Pan, Satan himself is clearly just a variation of Pan.