Category Archives: Mary

Black is Beautiful: A Black Madonna gallery

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

Who are they? The Black Madonnas are ostensibly medieval images of the Christian Mother of God, often with her child, the incarnate God Jesus, in which she is depicted as black.  Mary is so typically presented throughout medieval Europe as … Continue reading →

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Virgin of Guadalupe, Spain

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

Since writing my previous post on Mary in the Americas, it has come to my attention that yet another possible source for Our Lady of Guadalupe (besides religious vision and Aztec mythology) is a Black Madonna in the town of … Continue reading →

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An American Goddess: Mary in the New World

Posted on January 8, 2011 by

Every Christmas Eve at the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, the residents of the oldest town in America bring out an old, old statue of the Virgin Mary and give her a procession through an eager crowd.  This representation of … Continue reading →

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Star of the Sea

Posted on December 16, 2010 by

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, the most beautiful of all the goddesses of Greece has an unusual origin.  She was born out of the penis of the sky when it fell into the sea. The penis in question belonged to Ouranos, … Continue reading →

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Is the Moon female?

Posted on September 18, 2010 by

It is popular in modern times, especially in neopagan circles, to think of the moon as representing a goddess. But what did the ancients think?  Was the moon female to them? In classical Greece and Rome, the answer to that … Continue reading →

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Theotokos: How the Mother Goddess became Mary

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

Mary becomes Mother of God: The year 431 A.D. was a momentous one in the history of the Queen of Heaven.  That’s the year the church fathers, meeting in Ephesus in modern day Turkey,  officially declared that Mary is Theotokos, … Continue reading →

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The many names of Isis

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

Google the name Queen of Heaven today and most of the sites you will find relate to Mary, the Mother of God in the Catholic faith.  Just a click away are sites for churches, schools and other organizations named for … Continue reading →

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Mary Queen of Heaven

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

In this beautiful work by French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) we see Mary enthroned in the Heavens and crowned with the stars like a luminous goddess of the sky. In every way (except the way of official theology) she is … Continue reading →

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Mother of Earth and Sky

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

Many people believe the ubiquitous feminine, often pregnant figurines found throughout Paleolithic and Neolithic sites in ancient Europe and the Middle East represented Mother Earth, out of which are born the plants and animals and people which are her children, … Continue reading →

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