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On the Worship of Goddess in The Da Vinci Code I. Introduction Feminism is the belief and aim that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men as well as the struggle to achieve this aim. Goddess worship is the practice of showing respect for Goddess by saying prayers, and singing with others (A. S. Hornby, 2004: 2040). The history has witnessed the vigorous development of feminism in recent years in many fields such as movie, literature, music and so on. The Da Vinci Code is contrary to the traditional patriarchy, and praised the feminism by the worship of Goddess. As a popular novel, The Da Vinci Code has many themes — oppugned the Christian orthodox culture, analyzed the painting of Leonardo Da Vinci, but the main theme is the worship of Goddess ( Liu Qin, 2008: 267). In this book, semiotics expert of the University of Harvard Robert Landon (actor of this novel) was suspected by France police for the GD (General Director) of Palais du Louvre(卢浮宫) Saunier Jacques’ death. Sophia Neveu (actress of this novel) who is Saunier Jacques’s granddaughter and Landon did their best to disclose the truth---Holy Grail, which was related to the paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci and Jesus. The paper discusses about the worship of Goddess in The Da Vinci Code in three fields—history of the worship of Goddess, forms of the worship of Goddess in the novel and influences of the worship of Goddess in modern society. II. History of the Worship of Goddess The worship of Goddess has a long history. As the holy woman in the beginning of human history, Goddess was respected extremely. But in Holy Bible, Goddess was framed, so the worship of Goddess was oppressed. With the vigorous development of society, people have paid important attention to the worship of Goddess. 2.1 The reason of the worship of Goddess’s appearance In the beginning of Human being’s history, women were the mother of the Earth. She created all living creatures in the world, and devoted her ev