The Letter M in Da Vinci's Last Supper

As we approach the pagan festival of Easter it might be interesting to delve into the symbolism that Da Vinci encoded in his painting of the last supper. The last night of Jesus is based on the story of the last night of Osiris as related in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The drama of the temptation, crucifixion and resurrection only make sense when understood in the light universal events which the Egyptians called the night of the battle in which the powers of drought and darkness were defeated. Osiris was betrayed by his twin brother, Set, in the banqueting-hall in which bread and wine is on the table. Set and his 72 followers cut Osiris into 14 pieces and placed them into an ark on the last night of his life which is why it’s called the Last Supper. Plutarch

When Paul says: ‘They drank from the spiritual rock and that rock was Christ’ (I Corinthians 10:4), he was repeating the same words found in the sacred texts of the Roman god Mithras. In Mark 14:22 we find “And while they were eating, Yeshua took bread, and he blessed and he broke and he gave to them, and he said to them, “Take; this is my body.” Why does bread symbolize Jesus’ body? The answer may lie in what Michael Tsarion calls Astro-Theology.Bread is symbolized by the constellation Virgo. “The ancient glyph for Virgo looks like an M with a serpent’s tail. This glyph may explain why this glyph is encoded with two hidden meanings.

1. “Virgin Mothers” like Jesus’ mother Mary, Adonis’ mother Myrra, Buddha’s mother Maya, and Horus’ mother IsisMeri

2. The controversial doctrine of the Serpent dual seed-line has the serpent in the Garden of Eden mating with Eve, and the offspring of their union was Cain. This belief is still held by some adherents of the Christian Identity theology, who claim that the Jews, as descendants of Cain, are also descended from the serpent. Wikipedia

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Virgo is also called the House of Bread and is represented by an angel with wings holding a chaff of wheat, representing harvest time. Bethlehem also means “House of Bread” another reference to the constellation Virgo.

I’ve never looked Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper in the same way since I read Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince’s controversial book, ‘The Templar Revelation’ published in (1997). The authors propose that the person to the left of Jesus is Mary Magdalene rather than John the Baptist. They point out that their body angles form the letter M, which they believe is a reference to the Magdalene. Tony Bushby’s The Bible Fraud subscribes to the idea that the fifth disciple from Jesus’ right, dressed in matching clothes, is Jesus’ twin brother Judas Khrestus. Both Da Vinci and Michelangelo constantly portrayed twin boys with the Madonna.

The Templar Revelation introduced Dan Brown author of the Da Vinci code to the idea of the Hieros gamos or Hierogamy the "holy marriage" a symbolic ritual where humans represent gods. It is the harmonization of opposites. The Da Vinci code rocked the Christian world with the suppressed knowledge of the marriage of Mary Magdalene to Jesus. But Dan Brown left us hanging about the relationship between Jesus, John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene.

Picknett and Prince also believe that Leonardo da Vinci himself is in the painting with his face pointing away from Jesus, and that Jesus is being confronted by "the John gesture," on his left. The V formed by John’s fingers represents Capricorn’s goat horns. Capricorn is a sea goat with a serpent’s tail, the most important god of the Babylonians whose name was Oannes worshiped by the Knights Templar as Baphomet, the devil of the Christians.

Their first book, The Turin Shroud (1994), reveals Da Vinci’s reverence for John the Baptist, whom he and the Masons consider the Messiah. The Templars were burnt at the stake for worshiping Baphomet and they also worshiped the head of John the Baptist which connects him with Baphomet and with Baptism. So it's all about gods from the sea and why Nun means fish. Jesus is also called son of Dagon another name for Oannes and Enki who is portrayed with baptismal waters flowing from his shoulders.

Now let’s examine more closely the symbolism of the M in The Last Supper painting. If you look at a book of Eastern temples it shows a Makara, the Eastern astrological sign of Capricorn, protecting entryways to Hindu and Buddhist temples. This is probably a more realistic image of the fish gods.

Makara. The makaras are five mystical words beginning with M on which are important to Christians: madya (wine); mamsa (flesh); matsya (fish); mudra (mystic signs) Ma, a name of Lakshmi, the consort of Vishnu, the goddess of the sea and of the Virgin Mary.

Another M can been seen in the center of the labyrinth of Chartres Cathedral, built by the Knights Templars in the 13th century. There is a wild rose, and carved into it there seems to be an M figure the symbol of Virgo which is the M for "Our Lady", the Virgin Mary Magdalene, to which the Ichthys, the Fish god Oannes of Wisdom is appended, denoting the genital nature of the whole glyph itself. As the labyrinth is situated in a cathedral dedicated to Notre Dame, and the doorways of these Gothic churches represent the Vulva it seems appropriate to think of it as the vulva of the Virgin. Both Chartres and Notre Dame were centers of Black Madonna worship that represents Queen Semiramis who was known in Babylon as the Madonna. The Templars built their churches in a circular shape, indicating their widespread use of the dome or ‘womb’.

M for mother derives from the Egyptian hieroglyph ''Mut': The Egyptian mother goddess Mut wore a vulture headdress and was associated with the cow, the cat and the lioness. Mut was an androgyny, having breasts and an erect phallus. The marriage of Mut and Amun was one of the great annual celebrations. When Amun visits Mut in her temple at Luxor a great following would escort him from his temple at Karnak.

The Virgin goddess was all powerful in the Mystery Schools and males were not allowed in the inner sanctum of the Queens Chamber, the birth chamber for their bloodlines. Located at mid-point in the Great Pyramid, the Queen's Chamber symbolizes the heart of the temple and reflects its sexual spiritual essence. The word "pyramid" literally means "fire in the middle" and refers to the star- fire essence -- Divine Light –the wisdom revered in menstrual blood. Wisdom" refers to the union of male and female essences. Thus, the Queens Chamber of the Great Pyramid is associated with the hieros gamos a sexual ritual that plays out a sacred marriage between a god and a goddess, especially when humans represent them. Sacred prostitution was common in Sumeria and Egypt as a form of "Sacred Marriage" between the king and the High Priestess of Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and warfare.

There is a niche resembling a "womb" in the Queens Chamber and the air shafts are "fallopian (fallic) tubes" which suggests the practice of sexual magick. Some interpret this ritual as "spiritual birth." Subsequently, the initiate was anointed with messeh, crocodile oil; origin of the word Messiah. Ceremonial offerings of (holy bread) the wheat sheaf of Virgo and wine (star-fire) are placed on the altar. This is the origin of the Christian “being born again” by drinking the blood of Christ and eating the bread of Virgo at the Last Supper. Happy Easter