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The cult of the black virgin

By: Material type: TextTextBoston Arkana [an imprint of Routledge & Kegan Paul] c1985Description: 289p.; illus.; gazetteer, p153-264; bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1-85063-022-4
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT670.B55 B44 1985
Contents:
1 The influence of the east. 2 The classical tradition. 3 Natural religion: the Celtic and Teutonic sources. 4 The whore wisdom in the Christian era. 5 The symbolic meaning of the Black Virgin
Abstract: '...investigates the pagan origins of the phenomenon as well as the heretical Gnostic-Christian underground stream whoch flowed West with the cult of Mary Magdalene and resurfaced in Catharism at the time of the Crusades. A resurfacing of the powerful pagan goddesses of sexuality, the underworld and earth-wisdom, the Black Virgins are symbols of power and majesty: the other aspect of the traditional Madonna's maidenhood or tender maternity....'
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1 The influence of the east. 2 The classical tradition. 3 Natural religion: the Celtic and Teutonic sources. 4 The whore wisdom in the Christian era. 5 The symbolic meaning of the Black Virgin

'...investigates the pagan origins of the phenomenon as well as the heretical Gnostic-Christian underground stream whoch flowed West with the cult of Mary Magdalene and resurfaced in Catharism at the time of the Crusades. A resurfacing of the powerful pagan goddesses of sexuality, the underworld and earth-wisdom, the Black Virgins are symbols of power and majesty: the other aspect of the traditional Madonna's maidenhood or tender maternity....'

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