Margaret Starbird on Mary Magdalene and the Black Madonna - c. 1993 

This was so good! Thank you Margaret Starbird for your outstanding work!

Thank you! Shared and downloaded! Very interesting perspectives and she has researched this topic a LOT:)

I have so much love and respect for you Dear Heart, your beautiful book changed my life completely. The love in your energy as you speak, I have seen in no other,so within this truth you be the teacher of heart's.

Spiritually speaking (gender aside), matriarchal wisdom can begin with a fundamental understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God). Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle. As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8). Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process. In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary "ego" death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld, her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle. Mary Magdalene's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as head to tail (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12:3) To carry the Ankh (now the female symbol ♀️) was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle. Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. Ganesha (like the elephant) wears God's cyclical nature on his face. A whole temple was dedicated to the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, who is the matriarchal "Uterus" personified. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J0m0zJSEFK0.html "See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba

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If Jesus was also from a royal line.(the house of David) he would have been required to be married in order to carry on with the bloodline

The blackness of the bride to me is a reference to in the beginning. We're the almighty handed power of creation to his son. There was the blackness. Of the womb

I support the idea that Jesus was married. I too believe the Crucifixion caused the Madonna to be lost to those who were unable to comprehend what Jesus meant by the Resurrection upon the 3rd day. God created Trees such as the TREE of LIFE on the Third Day (Genesis 1:12). Jesus the Barabbas was married and was the Rabboni of Israel aka Nicodemus aka John who when his disciples supposed he was the Christ, testified that he was not saying...for the Bride belongs to the Bridegroom, I am the friend, the forerunner (John 3:28-29). Was the Madonna black? She as you point out...was a tanner. Her skin was blackened by the sun (think Apollos the sun god) (Song of Songs 1:6). In fact, the Woman Jesus called the Magdalene, was sullied, her reputation was blackened because she spent the night, under the cover of darkness, with the Rabboni, the Teacher of Israel (John 3: 1-21; Luke 19: 1-10). The story gets complicated as the two talk out in the open at NOON (John 4:10) and then she "supposes" he may be the Gift of God, the Christ and goes into town asking people if this man she met is the Christ. So check out my work and see how people down through the ages have also asked that question and supposed the Magdalene and the Rabboni were married to each other. What does come into play is the fact that Jesus Simon bar Jonah is the Rock Jesus [the woman] chose upon which the Church, the family of God was to be built ...and yet people have stumbled over Jesus' choice because Simon bar Jonah, like Jonah was reluctant to "forgive sinners" and so preachers and commentators have separated all the Simons, in the same way that they have separated all the Marys (since Vatican 2) and have rejected Peter as the "black rock" and the Don who belongs to the Madonna, as the Father and Shepherd of her sheep, and as her husbandman, her Lord that she goes searching for in the Garden (John 20:15).