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For Mystery Buffs
Documentary
Ancient Aliens: Da Vinci’s Forbidden Codes (Season 13, Episode 2)
History Channel, 5 April 2018
Narrated by Robert Clotworthy
Executive Producer, Kevin Burns
Prometheus Entertainment/A & E Television Networks, LLC
Featured George Noory, Jonathan Young, Matthew Landrus, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, William Henry, Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Noah Charney, Lynn Picknett, Maurizio Seracini, Caroline Corey, David Hatcher Childress, Katy Blatt, Godfrey Harris, Giovanni Pala (William M. Roberts, translator), Layne Little.
* Quoting David Hatcher Childress: “Mary Magdalene, according to a number of traditions, was actually the wife of Jesus and she was pregnant with his children – and in fact these children will be special and carrying a special new type of DNA for a new type of person on earth – and this is literally The Holy Grail” (the stained-glass window in Kilmore Church on the Isle of Mull, presented as background to what was said, is plainly that of Jesus Christ with Mary of Bethany, not Mary Magdalene, as is evident from the inscription taken from Luke 10:42).
* The episode also conveyed the goofball claims of Lynn Picknett about Leonardo da Vinci that have been discredited for decades (for example, there are numerous examples of artists depicting the Disciple John as feminine in The Last Supper, this trait did not belong solely to Leonardo da Vinci).
The feminine figure of the Disciple John at The Last Supper
By contemporary artist Father Lawrence Lew, O. P.
(Ordinis Praedicatorum)
Stained glass detail from a window in the Sacred Heart (Dahlgren) chapel in Georgetown University (Washington DC)
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