Titre : | The Cult of the Black Virgin |
Auteurs : | Ean Begg, Auteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | London [GB] : Arkana (Penguin Group), 1985 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-14-019012-0 |
Format : | xii + 289 p. / Photo N&B, carte N&B |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | JUF (Marie; mariologie) |
Résumé : |
Why are over 400 of the world’s images of the Madonna black’or dark? And why are they so little-known?
A resurfacing of the powerful pagan goddesses of sexuality, the underworld and earth-wisdom, the Black Virgins are symbols of power and majesty, the other aspect of the traditional Madonna's maidenhood or tender maternity. They personify the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant, in a quest for lost feminine wisdom and the search for soul. Ean Begg’s fascinating book investigates the pagan origins of the phenomenon as well as the heretical Gnostic-Christian underground stream that flowed West with the cult of Mary Magdalene and resurfaced in Catharism at the time of the Crusades. In addition the author provides a comprehensive gazetteer that enables the reader to locate the sites where Virgins can be found and provides information about their origins. |
Note de contenu : |
- List of illustrations - Preface - Acknowledgments - Introduction 1. The influence of the east 2. The classical tradition 3. Natural religion: the Celtic and Teutonic sources 4. The whore wisdom in the Christian era 5. The symbolic meaning of the Black Virgin - Gazetteer - Bibliography - Index |
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