{"id":279,"date":"2009-07-03T23:01:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T06:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2009-07-03T23:01:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T06:01:35","slug":"mary-magdalene-a-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Mary Magdalene a Goddess?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were discussing last week on the GoddessChristians forum<\/a> whether Magdalene is a goddess or not. Many ask whether Jesus was a god, was he divine, was he “just” a spiritual teacher with a divine message. So when it comes to the Sacred Feminine we come up with the same questions. \u00c2\u00a0Were Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene “goddesses”?Divine beings? Or enlightened teachers? Margaret Starbird wrote in to say:<\/p>\n

I guess it’s time to ask the question, “What is a Goddess?”<\/p>\n

Many theologians identify “God” as pure energy, personified in a
\nmasculine image (like the Almighty Father in Michelangelo’s “Creation”
\non the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But everyone knows that “He” is
\nnot really “the One”–who is ineffable and defies description. Judaism
\nand Islam allow no images of God because God is beyond all human
\nability to create such an image.<\/p>\n

Yet we know of many “gods” in the ancient world… Could we say that
\nthey are “incarnations” of the masculine attributes of “God”? and,
\ngiven this, might we then say that Mary Magdalene is an “incarnation”
\nof the “Goddess” attributes of wisdom\/compassion\/love?<\/p>\n

I believe that just as Jesus embodied the Jewish tradition of Yahweh
\nas the “Bridegroom of Israel,” Mary Magdalene embodied their tradition
\nof the “Daughter of Sion” as Bride (as in the rabbi’s interpretation
\nof the Song of Songs that has so many verses in common with an ancient
\nliturgy honoring Isis and Osiris). The Jesus\/Mary Magdalene story was
\na “personification” of the ancient and archetypal marriage covenant
\nbetween “God” and his Beloved–His chosen people.<\/p>\n

peace and well-being,
\nMargaret
\n“Mary Magdalene, Bride in Exile”
\nwww.margaretstarbird.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were discussing last week on the GoddessChristians forum whether Magdalene is a goddess or not. Many ask whether Jesus was a god, was he divine, was he “just” a spiritual teacher with a divine message. So when it comes to the Sacred Feminine we come up with the same questions. \u00c2\u00a0Were Mother Mary and … Continue reading Mary Magdalene a Goddess?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mary-magdalene","category-mary-mother-of-jesus","category-sacred-feminine","category-what-sunday-school-wont-teach"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}