... Final Paper A Comparison and Contrast of the Mother Goddess Figure Introduction This paper compares and contrasts the Virgin Mary and the Egyptian mother goddess Isis. A mother goddess is a deity or persona that represents motherhood, fertility, creation or one that embodies the bounties of the Earth. The Virgin Mary and Isis each represent perspectives of what is called the Sacred Feminine or Divine Feminine. Upon first glance, it appears that the similarities between the Virgin Mary and Isis are nothing more than a coincidence. I however, think The Virgin Mary and Isis are the same entity merely altered to fit different cultural needs. Author and psychic medium, Jessica Jewett, best describes this on her web page, “The supreme mother of the universe; she is loving, wise, courageous and sacrifices herself and her family of the benefit of mankind. In modern Christian culture, this description fits the Holy Mother, the Virgin Mary, but three thousand years ago and longer, this description also fit the most powerful Egyptian goddess, Isis.” (Jewett) I will be using their origins, symbols, titles, functions in religion, and seasonal festivals to compare and contrast The Virgin Mary and Isis in attempts to show how they are one in the same. Origins/Births Both Isis and The Virgin Mary are similar in the fact that they are considered divine mothers and venerated as a “life-giver”. They both had male offspring, Jesus and Horus, both of whom...
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...In Chris Ofili’s Holy Virgin Mary, 1996, he uses many different materials. Some of his used materials include acrylic, oil, paper collage, glitter, map pins, elephant dung, and others. All of the materials provide a unique end result that help intrigue people to learn more about his painting. This painting dominantly included the colors yellow, brown, and blue. Ofili depicts the Virgin Mary as being African or African-American and not European like many have portrayed her as. Ofili’s medium helps the viewer to see the Virgin in a way that is not seen by many. He uses many different mediums but one that intrigues the viewer the most was the elephant dung. Ofili may have borrowed the idea of using dung from African cultures since it has been...
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...general prologue places her on a high pedestal - She’s neat and tidy – wouldn’t let a crumb fall from her mouth - She’s devoted to the Virgin Mary – wears all sorts of rosary - She’s kind to those less fortunate – wouldn’t harm a mouse But all of these descriptions were used purely for the purpose of revealing her flaws especially during the telling of her tale and during the introduction he gives to her tale in which he is highly sarcastic, and overtly polite. The difference in his manner of introduction to the Prioress’s tale compared with the Nun’s Priest’s Tale and the Monk’s tale, in which he ridicules their tales by saying “Your tales are boring all of us to death, and all this talk is a waste of breath”. Chaucer is in a more subtle way attacking the Prioress’s over-exaggerated sentimentality and sensibility. This can be prominently seen by his use of diction: “ politely as a girl” , “excuse me please” , “my dearest lady” etc. In the prologue to her tale the Prioress offers a hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary. She extols Mary, the mother of Jesus and the "whitest Lily-flower." This hymn acts as a preview of the tale to follow as not only does the prologue aptly fit the Prioress’ character and position, but the story itself is centered on another hymn “O Alma Redemptoris” which gives praise to the Virgin Mary as well. The hymn also acts as an invocation in which the Prioress prays for help in narrating the greatness of the “blissful Queen”. However, through...
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...Chapter 1 The Christmas dinner dispute introduces the political landscape of late nineteenth-century Ireland into the novel. This is the first Christmas meal at which Stephen is allowed to sit at the grown-up table, a milestone in his path toward adulthood. The dispute that unfolds among Dante, Mr. Dedalus, and Mr. Casey makes Stephen quickly realize, however, that adulthood is fraught with conflicts, doubts, and anger. This discussion engenders no harmonious Christmas feeling of family togetherness. Rather, the growing boy learns that politics is often such a charged subject that it can cause huge rifts even within a single home. Dante's tumultuous departure from the dinner table is the first in a pattern of incidents in which characters declare independence and break away from a group for political and ideological reasons. Indeed, the political landscape of Ireland is deeply divided when the action of the novel occurs. Secularists like Mr. Dedalus and Mr. Casey feel that religion is keeping Ireland from progress and independence, while the orthodox, like Dante, feel that religion should take precedence in Irish culture. The secularists consider Parnell the savior of Ireland, but Parnell's shame at being caught in an extramarital affair tarnishes his political luster and earns him the church's condemnation. This condemnation on the part of the church mirrors Stephen's shame over expressing a desire to marry Eileen Vance, who is Protestant. On the whole, however, Stephen's reaction...
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...jurisdiction of the parish is as follows: Santolan (North), Marikina River (West), Maybunga San Miguel (South), Cainta, Rizal (East). The church enshrines the 19th century Virgin Mary, said to be different among others, for she has a moon underneath her feet.[1] The parish is one of the three other parishes in the Diocese of Pasig that has been granted the special papal blessing to mark its Jubilee Year in connection with its 50th anniversary.[1] The Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Church, also known as the Salasa Parish Church (or simply Salasa Church), is a Spanish colonial church located in the municipality of Bugallon in Pangasinan, Philippines. The church is under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alaminos.[1] Its feast day is celebrated every February 11. The Santo Niño de Cebú (Spanish: Holy Child of Cebu/Batang Banal ng Cebu in Filipino) is a Roman Catholic title of Jesus Christ associated with a religious vested statue of the infant Child Jesus venerated by manyFilipino Catholics who believe it to be miraculous. It is the oldest religious Christian image in the Philippines, and was originally given in 1521 as a baptismal gift by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan via Antonio Pigafetta, who physically handed it to Lady Humamay, the chief consort of Rajah Humabon, along with a statue of the Virgin Mary and the bust of the Ecce Homo. The image merited a Papal recognition on 28 April 1965 when Pope Paul VI issued a papal bull for the Canonical Coronation and Pontifical High...
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...On the crisp cool morning of April 8th in Perigeux France, a son was born. Not a first chilld for this deeply religious couple , not even a second to complete a family, but the fourteenth baby out of fifteen. Upon his arrival in 1761 even though hugely devoted to the lord themselves his parents had no idea what an intuitive, compassionate, strong, brave, forward thinker they were to embark on the journey of raising. After watching three of his older brothers become priests, he felt a strong strong calling within himself to serve as well. At the innocent age of 10 he joined a minor seminary in Mussidan, and that is how it all began. William Joseph Chaminade of Perigeux France was ordaned a priest in 1785 for the local diocese. What is a diocese you may ask? A diocese is a district under the supervision of a bishop. The start of the french revolution was in 1790. This is also the year Chaminade moved to Bordeaux. Once there he gained a title as an enemy of the state, as he defied the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. This stated that he must take an oath confirming his support of the Revolutions secular vales and disclaiming the authority of his Roman Catholic Church. Even though strongly against the law he continued to risk death and work as a priest for a secret group of his followers. An allie he held close in his line of work was a woman by the name of Marie- Therese de Lamourous. Marie Therese was born in 1754 and later passed in 1836. Later on in time he assisted her in...
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...Marie Rivier was born December 19, 1768 in Montpezat, France. When she was two, Marie suffered an accident that left her severely handicapped and unable to walk. Every day Marie’s mother, a woman of great faith, would carry her to the statue of the Pieta in a nearby chapel. Soon little Marie began saying “The Blessed Virgin will cure me!” For four years Marie prayed at Mary’s feet. At the beginning of September in 1774 Marie’s father passed away. On September 8, 1774, the feast of the Birth of Mary, Marie began to walk. Later in the chapel Marie’s mother discovered a hat that she had made for Marie hanging on the statue’s head. Marie had placed the hat there as a votive offering. Marie always had a strong faith. Marie grew up to be the foundress of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary, and throughout her life, she devoted herself to the care and education of needy children. I chose Blessed Marie Rivier as my saint’s name for a couple of reasons. One reason was because I read her story and I was inspired by her strength and determination. Even though she was handicapped her faith taught her and she still believed that the Blessed Virgin would cure her. A second reason I chose Blessed Marie is because I have always loved the name Marie. When I was very young I would always tell people my name was “Sarah Lynn Marie”. My family wondered why I was doing it and found it funny but my aunt still calls me that to this day. Blessed Marie’s feast day is February 3. http://www...
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...takes place around christmas time in an unknown city, where a little girl named violet lives with her family. I believe the main themes in this short story to be: love, hate, jealousy, acceptance, fascination and despair. We are through the text following the life of Violet and her first meeting and impression of one specific woman. “I remember the first time i saw her. […] She stood higher than the rest of us, surrounded be candles”. In this quotation Violets first meeting with the women is described, but also the fact that it is no ordinary woman. The little girl has gotten a fascination of the Virgin Mary. The first glance she laid on her was probably a statue standing in the city to celebrate christmas. She is after this moment upsets with the Virgin Mary, and notices her everywhere she goes. It is in the following quotation told, that the are pictures of the virgin many places that she’s been before, for example and described in the quote, in the grandmothers house; “You know how it is when you learn a new word and then you begin to hear it all the time? It was like that with her. I started to see her everywhere we went. […] Then i saw her in the bookshop, at my brother’s school and even at me grandmothers house”. Violet is a little girl who is mute, which means she does not have ability to talk. It is to...
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...The figure of the Virgin Mary and her baby, Jesus, is an important and very well known topic among the renaissance era all throughout Europe. They have ben captured in countless paintings and sculptures and depicted in nearly the same composition, yet every artist has unique ways of portraying the image of Mary and her baby. As I walk along the many works of art in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts I spot Donatello’s Madonna of the Clouds and Luca della Robbia’s Virgin and Child with Lilies. Both of these reliefs contained the same image: the Virgin Mary cradling her child with angles surrounding the pair, yet because of the artists material and style both had crafted a completely different array of emotion and form of storytelling. One form of art, one set of figures, and two completely different stories. Reliefs are a type of sculpture that is crafted from a flat plane and then slowly...
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...Introduction The Hispanic world is dominated mainly by Catholicism. It is estimated that in the United States alone about 70% of Hispanics claim their practicing religion as being Catholic. Hispanic Catholics believe that health is a gift given by god and should not be taken for granted. The prevention of illness and injury is an accepted practice that is accomplished through prayer, the wearing of religious medals or amulets and keeping religious relics in the home. The visiting of shrines, offering prayers and the lighting of candles is a frequently observed practice. Many homes have shrines setup with statues and pictures of saints and candles are lit here and prayers are recited. Other notable minority religions of the Hispanic world also include: 1) Protestant 2) Judaism 3) Islam. Catholicism When the Spanish conquered the new world they were determined to spread the Catholic faith with no regard to the indigenous religions already present at the time they arrived. This introduction of the Catholic religion to the indigenous peoples brought about what is called religious transculturation when the Catholic religious practices mixed with the indigenous religious practices. Transculturation created an incredible variety of celebrations, rituals and physical representations of the elements of the Catholic religion such as Jesus, the cross, the saints, the novenas and the rituals in general. Celebrations Many of the celebrations of the Catholic Hispanic...
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...brush strokes and attention to minute details all brought across the message of these paintings I spent close to two hours looking at paintings dating from the Baroque period all the way into the modern age but the paintings that really caught my eyes were those from the 17th century. Of these the ones that made an impression on me were: 1. “Virgin and child with Angel” painted in 1642 by Simon Vouet in France. This portrays a virgin half sitting, half crouching with a cherubic infant on her hips while her focus was on the basket of fruits that she was eating from, oblivious of the angel to her right that was playing with the infant in her arms. The scenery is painted overshadowed by a large tree, possibly an Oak; in the distance a lake can be seen. The simplicity of the painting and its bright colors is pleasing to the eyes and one feels a sense of serenity and peace while viewing this piece. The characters are in accord with each other and there is almost a reverent feel to this setting. The sight of the angel playing with the child is thought provoking and leads us to remember that Jesus was born to the Virgin...
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...Bradshaw Final Winter 2012 The history of Mariology traces theological developments and views regarding Mary, the Blessed Virgin, from the early first century through the twentieth. The first image of Mary that we see is in the early second century and it is the earliest veneration of Mary with her son, Jesus. It was found in the Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome and is a fresco that included Mary and Saint Peter together. Mary’s status as the Mother of God is clear in the Gospels and the different venerations of Mary have been an important subject in Catholic art. Early Christians saw Mary as the bridge between the new and the old, as well as the second Eve because of her and Eve’s willing acceptance of God’s choice. Marian religion deals with the Virgin and her life, as well as veneration in daily life, prayer, music, architecture, and art of the Christian faith. Religious toleration was not well seated among its peers during the Roman Empire, but in 313 Emperor Constantine signed a letter, the Edict of Milan, that proclaimed that Christians were permitted to worship openly and the venerations of Mary became public. People began to build Cathedrals and churches for public worship in the name of Mary. The first Marian churches dated back to the fifth century in Rome, Saint Maria Marggiore. Though the earliest extant of biographical writing on Mary is Life of the Virgin attributed to the 7th century saint, Maximus the Confessor, which portrays her as a key element of the early...
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...On pale green walls The short story, ”On pale green walls” is written by Clare Wigfall and published in 1997. The story is about a mute girl named Violet, who lives in a religious family. One day she notices Virgin Mary, as a statue in the church, a beautiful woman in a blue dress and white shawl over her head, and she strongly catches Violet’s attention. Violet begins noticing her in many different places and immediately feels very connected to this woman. As Violet is just a little child she has no idea, who Virgin Mary is and her relations to Jesus and God. One-Day Violet notices her on the front page of the newspaper that her father is reading, only this time she is holding a baby in her arms. She gets very jealous and mad to see the love and affection Virgin Mary seem to feel for this baby, and Violet reacts by perforating the baby’s eyes and drawing red out of its mouth to look like blood stains. When her parents see this they get very angry and concerned to see their daughter’s, almost sadistic, behavior. The misunderstanding leads us to the main themes in this short story, which is the lack of communication between a little child and adults. Violet’s mother can’t see why she would want to hurt the baby, who in this case, is actually Jesus. We are not told the age of Violet, but implicit we can tell that she is very young. An example is when she gets frightened by an old man and hides between her mother’s legs. In this sentence; “Frightened by his wrinkles, I shrank...
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...panel is 66 3/4 x 66 1/2 in. (169.5 x 168.9 cm) and it currently resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The painting uses a balanced composition with the saints flanking the Virgin Mary, Baby Jesus, and John the Baptist. This composition creates a single coherent scene for the viewer. The figures dominate the space of the painting forcing the viewer to observe them. They are crowded in the foreground of the painting. The environment behind them is simple and unimportant when compared to the...
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...Rienz Tolentino ELX101 Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto Shepherds of Fatima Jacinta, a six year old girl, and his brother Francisco, who is almost two years older than her, the son and daughter of Peter and Olympia Marto. Lucia dos Santos is their cousin who is nine-years-old. The three were always together. They carried their lunches with them in a pasture land. The three shepherds always pray the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Angel of God. After lunch they would recite the rosary together. Jacinta invented that instead of saying the complete prayers, one of the three would call, “Hail Mary!” and the other would answer, “Holy Mary!” They would simply end each decade with the two words “Our Father” One Evening, as they were leading the flocks home, Jacinta dropped behind Lucia and Francisco. “What are you doing?” Lucia asked in surprise as she noticed Jacinta walking in the middle of the sheep. “I want to be like Jesus in that holy picture they gave me”, Jacinta explained, “The picture has Jesus right in the middle of all the sheep. And he`s carrying one of them in his arms”. “No lamp is as beautiful as the Lord`s!” Francisco would declare to Lucia and Jacinta. “I like our Lady`s lamp better,” Jacinta would answer, (This was her name for the moon). “It`s not hot like our Lord`s. It doesn`t burn us,” One day after the three had eaten their lunch, a strong gust of wind rattled the trees and above the olive orchard at the foot of the hill, they saw a white figure...
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