April 14th, 2006

The Virgin of the Rocks - Behold the Mother

The painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, referred to by the author on page 465, as The Lady of the Rocks, understandably perhaps given what precedes it, is officially known as The Virgin of the Rocks, and it is a key image in terms of understanding the message of The Legend of Dagad Trikon. An earlier version of the painting can be seen in the Louvre.

The author notes the striking facial similarity between the Virgin Mary in the Rocks painting and in the Mona Lisa. At the point where this co-incidence is mentioned, (if co-incidence it is) Sanath, the wizard, observes that the last thing Jesus said on the cross to John, was, “Behold the Mother” and not “Behold Simon Peter,” inferring that the future was to be with Mary, his mother.

See The Virigin of the Rocks by Leonardo Da Vinci

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April 13th, 2006

Jonathan O’Lochan

Jonathan O’Lochan – an Arab scholar and Irish-American diplomat, we first meet him at the opening of the novel, in Cairo, just after the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, on November 4th 1995. Rabin had been shot dead by a right-wing student, Yigal Amir.

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