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Virgin Birth
"Holy Virgin" was the title of harlot-priestesses
of Ishtar, Asherah or Aphrodite. The
title didn't mean physical virginity; it meant simply
"unmarried," The function of
such "holy virgins" was to dispense the Mother's grace through sexual
worship; to heal; to prophesy; to perform sacred dances; to wail for the dead;
and to become Brides of God.
Children born of such temple women were called by the
Semites bathur, by the Greeks parthenioi,
"virgin-born." According to
the Protoevangelium, the Virgin Mary was a kadesha
and perhaps married to one of that class of priests known as "fathers of
the god."
Mary's impregnation was similar to Persephone's. In her Virgin guise, Persephone sat in a holy
cave and began to weave the great tapestry of the universe, when Zeus appeared
as a phallic serpent, to beget the savior Dionysus on her. Mary sat in the temple and began to spin a
blood-red thread, representing Life in the tapestry of fate, when the angel
Gabriel "came in unto her" (Luke 1:28), the biblical phrase for sexual
intercourse. Gabriel's name means
literally "divine husband."
Hebrew Gospels designated Mary by the word almah, mistakenly translated
"virgin," but really meaning "young woman." It was derived from Persian Al-Mah, the
unmated Moon-goddess. Another cognate
was Latin alma
Christian translators insisted on rendering Mary's title as
"virgin," which saddled their religion with an embarrassing article
of faith. Even today, theologians like
Karl Barth declare that "It is essential to the true Christian faith to
accept the doctrine of the virgin birth" – thus drastically reducing the
number of people who can be called true Christians.
Early Christians demanded a virgin birth for their Savior
out of simple imitativeness. All the
other Saviors had one, for they were both of the Goddess incarnated in a chosen
"virgin of the temple," whose business it was to bear Saviors. The notion that mortal women were impregnated
by gods or spirits was a matter of everyday acceptance throughout the ancient
world. Even the Old Testament say
archaic "giants" (ancestral heroes) were born of mortal women
impregnated by spirits that came from God (Genesis 6:4).
Zoroaster, Sargon, Perseus, Jason, Miletus , Minos, Asclepius, and dozens of
others were God-begotten and virgin-born.
Even Zeus, the Heavenly Father who begot many other
"virgin-born" heroes, was himself called Zeus Marnas,
"Virgin-born Zeus." Plutarch
noted among the Egyptians the common belief that the spirit of God was capable
of sexual intercourse with mortal women.
Heracles was born of another almah, the Virgin Alcmene, whose name means Power of the Moon. Her husband also, like the biblical Joseph,
kept away from her bed during pregnancy.
The same tale was told of Plato, whose nephew affirmed that he was begotten
by the god Apollo, his earthly parents having no sexual relations until after
his birth. Christians believed this, and
solemnly attested that Plato was a virgin-born son of the sun-god.
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After Christianity was established as the official religion
of the Roman empire , however, church fathers
tried to discredit all other virgin births by claiming that the devil had
devised them, and maliciously placed them in a past time, so they would
pre-date the real Savior. Justin Martyr
wrote, "when I am told that Perseus was born of a virgin I realize that
here again is a case in which the serpent and deceiver has imitated our
religion."
Despite the efforts of church fathers, the virgin birth of
Jesus was neither the first nor the last such miracle given credence by
Christians. Priapic idols of antiquity,
credited with the power to father children, actually fathered other priapic
idols who become saints like Foutin, Gurtlichon, Gilles, Refnaud, and Guignole;
these were credited with the same powers of fertilization and were much adored
by women who desired offspring. Women of
Tuscany and Portugal thought they could become
pregnant by eating apples specially consecrated by a priest. Spaniards remembered the virgin birth of
Mars, and thought any woman could conceive like Mars's mother Juno, by eating a
lily. It was believed that souls could
enter a woman's body in the form of flies, worms, or serpents, to cause
impregnation. Cases were solemnly
documented, like that of a Scot named Gillie Downak Chravolick, conceived when
his mother raised her skirts on an old battlefield and received into her
"private member" some ashes from the burned bones of dead
warriors. As impregnation by a god use
to be the "acceptable explanation for pregnancy in most pagan countries
where the sexual act was part of the fertility rites," so Christians
thought impregnation by spirits was still credible, whether the alleged father
was a dead hero, a devil, an incubus, or even –in some sects-the Holy Ghost
again.
Such an untenable belief survived because it was important
to men. The impossible virgin mother was
everyman's longed-for resolution of Oedipal conflicts: pure maternity, never
distracted from her devotion by sexual desires.
Churchmen unwittingly showed their anxiety by denying even the evidence
of their own Gospels that Jesus had brothers and sisters. St. Ambrose
insisted that Mary never conceived again, since God couldn't have chosen for
his mother-bride "a woman who would defile the heavenly chamber with the
seed of a man."
Theologians in effect severed the two halves of the pagan
Goddess, whose realistic femininity combined abundant sexuality and
maternity. One half was labelled harlot
and temptress, the other a female ascetic even in motherhood. The Goddess's old title, Sancta Matrona-Holy
Mother- was added to the canon of saints as a phony St. Matrona, whose
pseudo-biography made her a "hermitess."
The primitive naïveté of the virgin-birth concept was
dressed in pretentious verbiage, purporting to explain it, while actually
hiding it from prying eyes. "A
shadow is formed by light falling upon a body, but the power of the most High
overshadowed her, which incorporeal light of the godhead took a human body with
her, and so she was able to bear God."
Churchmen often presented the doctrine of the virgin birth
as "ennobling" to women, since they viewed women's natural sexuality
as degrading. Seldom were female
sexuality and motherhood perceived as component parts of the same whole. Some women were astute enough to see that the
doctrine effectively degraded read womanhood by exalting a ever-attainable
ideal. At the end of the 19th century on
woman wrote:
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