That said, I do not believe anything like a DaVinci Code, Mary Magdalene, or the blood line of Jesus has anything to do with the concepts in question.
There is a deeper underlying symbolism which has been staring us in the face all along and which suggests that the religions we believe to have derived from the patriarch Abraham (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) are based upon earlier matriarchal religions. I say this because among the core symbols of these religions can be found three of the chief aspects of the female genitalia.
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem represents the mons veneris. The word "Shekinah" (the divine presence of God in the Temple) has a feminine gender.
The chalice of Christianity represents the vagina, the feminine side of the yoni-lingam duality.
The black stone on the east corner of the Kaaba in Mecca represents the clitoris, the female phallus. The veil which covers the Kaaba may be symbolic of the burka (or vice versa).
It would have been obvious to ancient peoples that women play the chief role in the continuation of human life. It is therefore quite believable that early religions would have acknowledged that fact in philosophical and symbolic terms. Whether the rise of patriarchy and the imposition of its symbols on ancient matriarchal religions was due to the intervention of God or merely the invention of man is a question others will have to answer.
What I do know is that the presence of these feminine symbols has a deeper meaning than anything which can be attributed to Mary Magdalene or Leonardo DaVinci.
And perhaps the real "road map to peace" in the Middle East will have to come from a rejection of the differences among the patriarchal religions and the embracing of the basic unity of the matriarchal religions on which they are based. Just as mons, vagina, and clitoris are essential parts of the entire person, the unifying feminine aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam will have to work together if human life is to continue on this planet.
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