February 4, 2008

• The Book of Isaiah Chapter 1 V.1 Part 3.3 Asherah 5

  The Book of Isaiah

  Chapter 1 V.1 Part 3.3 Asherah 5

   

  (Bear in mind…I’m still digging under the reference of Isaiah 1:1 at this time, and what is following is the result of that search, but fair warning…it’s a vast amount of information and is quite complex. Also bear in mind that the deities presented here are only presented to give clarity to the identity of the same false goddess and to demonstrate the origins of that theology and the various cultures, forms and names of this false deity under this theology.)

  Celtic goddess Brighid

   

  

   

  She is part of what many people call the “Old Religion” of Western Europe, including Great Britain and Northern Europe. In Ireland she is called Brighde, in Scotland, Bride; in Northern Europe, Brigantia; in France, Brigandu.

   

   

  Coatlique

  

  Coatlique Placing the Moon in the Sky

   

   

  Aztecs have a Mother Goddess, is known as Coatlique, or Lady of the Serpent Skirt, and is seen as being the creator of the fifth world that we live in now. Coatlique lived in an area called Aztlan, up in the mountains. She had 400 children that were stars in the sky, and so she is called the mother of the gods.

   

   

  Spider Grandmother

  

   

  American Indian tribes have a goddess known as the Spider Woman; also called Spider Grandmother, and is most popular in the American Southwest with the Pueblo people. Spider Woman is also called Thinking Woman because she merely thought things into existence or they came into existence when she spoke or sang her thoughts. Spider Woman went to work creating people, and she did this by molding the red, yellow, white and black clay of the earth. For every person she made, she spun a fine line of spider silk that she attached to their heads, so that they would always be connected to her and have access to her wisdom and teachings. As long as they kept the doorway from the top of their heads to let in the spider silk, they would always be protected by her.

   

  Dreamcatcher

  

   

  Wiccans and other Neo-Pagans worship the Mother Goddess. Most commonly she is worshiped as a Triple Goddess; usually envisioned as the Maiden, Mother, and Crone archetypes. She is associated with the full moon and with Earth. Many ancient Pagan religions had mother goddesses; it has been argued that the figure of Mary the mother of Jesus is patterned on these.

   

  Catholic Mary

  

   

  The Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches venerate her as the Ever-Virgin Mother of God (Theotokos), who was specially favoured by God’s grace (Catholics hold that she was conceived without original sin) and who, when her earthly life had been completed, was assumed bodily into Heaven.

   

  Catholics regard Mary, the Theotokos, as a “spiritual mother”, since she not only fulfills a maternal role, but is often viewed as a protective force and divine intercessory for humanity. She is not worshiped as a divine “mother goddess” officially, but she is “highly revered” (more so than Christ).

   

  The Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches identify “the woman” described in Revelation 12 as the Virgin Mary because in verse 5 this woman is said to have given “birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod” whom Catholics identify as Jesus Christ. Then, in verse 17 of Revelation 12, the Bible describes “the rest of her offspring” as “those who keep God’s commandments and bear witness to Jesus.”  

   

  They also cite John 19:26-27 where Jesus entrusts his mother to the Apostle John as evidence that Mary is the mother of all Christians, taking the command “behold your mother” to apply generally. The Virgin Mary receives many titles in Catholicism, such as Queen of Heaven and Star of the Sea, that are familiar from earlier Near Eastern traditions.

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