On May 28, 6:01=A0am, "Zadok" <nob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "athair ambrois" <em...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 27, 5:11 pm, Dafydd <dafyd...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > that mankind does need a female deity
> > as well as a male one... and Mary was truly wor****pped.
> >David, when did the wor****p of Mary cease and why? =A0Among what
groups?
>
> The Goddess has always been wor****pped.
>
> Sumerian hymn to Inanna -
>
> I say, "Hail!" to the Holy One who appears in the heavens!
> I say, "Hail" to the Holy Priestess of Heaven!
> I say, "Hail" to Inanna, Great Lady of Heaven.
>
> Where do you think the "HAIL" Mary's came from??
>
> Read your bible!!
>
> Jeremiah 7: The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and
the
> women knead the dough and make cakes of bread for the Queen of Heaven.
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> pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke me to anger.
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> That is simply Inanna again, she was called the Queen of Heaven.
>
> And you can follow that down through Ishtar, which is simply the
Babylonia=
n
> for the earlier Summerian Inanna.
>
> On to the greek goddesses, to Cybele the mother of the Gods,
>
> Here read this -
>
> Roman devotion to Cybele ran deeply. Not coincidentally, when a
Christian
> basilica was built over the site of a temple to Cybele to occupy the
site,=
> the sanctuary was rededicated to the Mother of God, as the Basilica di
San=
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> Maria Maggiore.
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> There is only one religion that continues to wor****p the mother of God,
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> Queen of Heaven!!
> And they still have pagan idols also.
>
> Smile.
Thanks, but none of this addresses the questions of *who" used to
wor****p Mary and when and why did they stop.
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