Mary Magdalene notes

[From MetaFilter] ABC program examining the life of Mary Magdalene and her role in Jesus’ life as possible wife. The Mary-as-whore idea was debunked some time ago, but is it possible that she was made into a whore by the church to explain her intimacy with Jesus? The novel The da Vinci Code, on which this ABC program was based, explores the relationship between da Vinci and a secret society protecting the blood line of Christ, who according to some theories fathered children with his wife, Mary Magdalene. If you look at the Last Supper, the figure to the right of Jesus is so clearly a woman, and it is possible that the Holy Grail that gathered the blood of Christ is a metaphor for Magdalene’s womb carrying Jesus’ children. And according to Magdalene’s apocryphal gnostic gospel, she knew secrets that Jesus kept from the apostles.