What hidden codes are there in the Davinci Code? WHy is this book so popular?

I read this book and took it at face value; just a good mystery suspense novel. The whole book is about codes. When people talk about hidden codes do they mean something else? What would the codes point out? everything in this book gets resolved at the end.

What hidden codes are there in the Davinci Code? WHy is this book so popular?
Since you've read it, you already know what the codes are. I think it is popular mostly because of the controversy surrounding it.





I think readers ought to keep in mind that it is FICTION. Some seem to think that because Dan Brown included a lot of obscure facts (for example, the discussion of PHI) that those facts give legitimacy to the fictional claims made in the book. They do make the fiction more believable, but readers need to be careful to separate fact from fiction and not take every claim made in the book as truth.
Reply:Probably the most important hidden code, exists in DaVinci's famous painting, "The Last Supper", where the figure seated to the right of Jesus, is clearly feminine and beardless, and the positioning of their bodies form the letter "M", as in Magdalene. It is also believed that Judas is not portrayed in this scene, and the only explanation for there being 13 figures in the painting, is that there are 11 disciples, Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and since women typically would not travel with a group of men in those times, unless they were married to one of them, the logical explanation, is that she was his wife...
Reply:Well, old painters/scientists/inventors/thinkers from the Renaissance period used to put "secret codes" or subliminal images on their work; they found the thought of extremely surprised people (we) entertaining. They "hid" these mathematical codes in their paintings through the use of very complicated geometry based on the principle of golden proportion (which declares that all living objects, and sometimes constructions, have the same proportion ratio) which could be interpreted as a binary code or just a series of numbers that usually only made sense to certain people (theirselves and maybe a few other hardcore mathematicians). As you might know, Da Vinci was a great mathematic as well as an excentric bastard (he used to write all his journals backwards and crap like that). And well, in the story, he put some codes in the Mona Lisa painting which told of the darkest secret of the catholic church, that Jesus (Son of God) had had a romantic (as well as sexual) relationship with Mary Magdalena (the whore He saved from being stoned to death)... Oh, wait! That's another book! Oh well, at least now you have an idea of what kind of codes they were, haha sorry...