The Da Vinci Code and a Mother’s Day Gift

Have you read The Da Vinci Code? If you have, then half my job is done. The Da Vinci Code is the story of people’s pursuit of the feminine aspect of divinity, to which justice wasn’t done by the male-dominated society. Dan Brown calls this suppressed aspect of divinity the sacred feminine.

Mother’s Day is approaching and I thought that a little bit of thinking would be in order while making up your mind about the most ideal gift for your mother on that day. History gives you one clear gift idea for Mother’s Day - a Mother and Child figurine.

Let me tell you why the gift item of a Mother and Child Figurine is most appropriate for Mother's Day.

All through human history, the feminine was considered powerful because of its creative and nurturing forces.

The worship of the Mother Goddess was a practice in early human civilizations. Statues featuring pregnant women and figurines featuring a mother and child were discovered by archaeologists studying ancient civilizations.

Excavations of the Neolithic civilizations which flourished in Sesklo in Greece and Çatalhöyük in Anatolia showed figurines featuring mother and child. Mind you, this was almost seven millennia Before Christ.

An ancient civilization flourished in the northwest part of India three millennia Before Christ. Folks there worshiped the Mother Goddess and there were images and sculptures of the Mother in her glory.

Archaeological studies show that in Mexico, two centuries Before Christ, the inhabitants of the region made figurines portraying mother and child.

In the Christian tradition too, the mother and child image is of great importance. Mary’s love and care for her son Jesus has inspired many pictures and sculptures.

It seems that the past was full of mother and child figurines. In other words, mother’s love has been a fascinating theme for human beings since time immemorial.

If you look at the Mother and Child figurines that are available in the market these days, you would see quite a range of cultural diversity. You find such figurines depicting African Americans, the Maasai tribe of Kenya and Tanzania, Native Americans, and the Japanese.

The Mother and Child theme seems to be a great leveler of diverse human cultures!

There is a famous Spanish company called Lladro which produces fine porcelain figurines. One of their Mother’s Day gifts, a part of their Catholic collection, is a child in mother’s arms - a picture understood and liked by people all over the world.

If you are like the great Leonardo Da Vinci or the fictitious but admirable Robert Langdon (easier remembered as Tom Hanks in the movie adaptation), you would worship the sacred feminine. You would not have any second thoughts about what to gift your mother with on Mother’s Day - a lovely Mother and Child figurine!