Book Title: The Lost Symbol

Released Year: 2010

Writer: Dan Brown

Language: English

In his latest book, Dan Brown brings Robert Langdon back to the spot light. The story takes place over a period of 12 hours in Washington, D.C., with a focus on Freemasonry. Robert Langdon is summoned to give a lecture in National Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol, with the invitation apparently from his mentor, a 33rd degree Mason named Peter Solomon, who is the head of the Smithsonian Institution. Solomon has also asked him to bring a small package which he had entrusted with Langdon for safekeeping years earlier. When Langdon arrives at the Capitol, however, instead of an audience for his lecture, he finds the severed right hand of Peter Solomon mounted on a stick, directly in the middle of the room. The hand contains tattoos on each finger, and Langdon recognizes it as the symbolic Hand of the Mysteries, which seemingly points straight up to the fresco. [©wikipedia]

Reading this book like brings me travel through time. Imagining the complexity of ancient symbols and a-bit-or-more makes me think that Washington is build based on those astrological myth.