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Aemma
12-15-2009, 03:18 AM
Having been raised Roman Catholic, one cannot escape the preponderance of images of the Virgin Mother and Her Child. Even if one is not raised Roman Catholic, such iconic imagery is emblazoned in the European psyche and forever will be I would pretty much bet. Indisputably, I do believe that regardless of one's spiritual beliefs, one cannot but appreciate the images of mother and child. There is something at once visceral and at once ethereal in many of these images. [And yes I know that I am heathen. :P But this does not mean that I cannot appreciate art and many different motifs. :D]

So post some of your faves here if you have any!

A couple I have come across this evening that struck me as unique:

http://i46.tinypic.com/2hhkw8n.jpg

http://i50.tinypic.com/j6iowo.jpg

Cato
12-15-2009, 03:46 AM
Isis and Horus, pre-Christian by several thousand years (tis the original Madonna and Child).

http://wysinger.homestead.com/files/isis9.jpg

Murphy
12-15-2009, 06:22 AM
Isis and Horus, pre-Christian by several thousand years (tis the original Madonna and Child).

http://wysinger.homestead.com/files/isis9.jpg

Yet quite non-European ;). I don't think Aemma was interested in starting a debate about the Blessed Virgin and whatever pagan filth you can pull out to attack her holy name.

Anyway, here's one for you Aemma:

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3397/virginmary.png

Regards,
The Papist.

Cato
12-15-2009, 02:28 PM
Yet quite non-European ;). I don't think Aemma was interested in starting a debate about the Blessed Virgin and whatever pagan filth you can pull out to attack her holy name.

Anyway, here's one for you Aemma:

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3397/virginmary.png

Regards,
The Papist.

Just for you my rude mitre-wearing friend.

The Blessed Virgin Athena receiving her adopted son Erichthonius from the hands of Gaia.

http://www.theoi.com/image/T1.2Gaia.jpg

And to be on topic, here's a nice but small picture of a Japanese Madonna and Child:

http://www.udayton.edu/mary/gallery/exhibits/japan8.jpg

Don't they have such lovely sun disks behind their heads, what you call halos?

http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Apollo1.JPG/366px-Apollo1.JPG

Apollo agrees that the Madonna and Child have nice halos, but not as nice as his. :)

Pagan filth indeed chap. :thumb001:

Treffie
12-15-2009, 02:35 PM
Sorry, I had to :p

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200708/r166210_617260.jpg

Cato
12-15-2009, 02:44 PM
^LOL HAHAHA!

Lulletje Rozewater
12-17-2009, 07:37 AM
http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/415/livevrouwenkind.jpg


Vlaanderen "Onze Lieve Vrouw"

Lulletje Rozewater
12-17-2009, 07:41 AM
http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/439/maryandchild.jpg

Amapola
12-17-2009, 09:35 AM
The virgin and Jesus is the example of the worship of maternity, like almost every early worship, nature-related: univeral symbolism, universal facts.

Óttar
01-30-2010, 11:37 PM
I don't think Aemma was interested in starting a debate about the Blessed Virgin and whatever pagan filth you can pull out to attack her holy name.
Don't even talk. I have been studying Marian art and liturgy for more than half of my life and the conclusion I have come to is that your Romish church is just thinly veiled sun-worship.

It's too obvious. Images with Mary with a crown of stars, with a solar orb representing Christ (The Sun) at her chest, and then her blue mantle representing the sky, with the moon under her feet?

It's sun, moon and star worship, that is all.

Take for example this prayer called the Arkhatiston from the Eastern Catholic Church:

Hail, O Beam of the Mystical Son; (conveniently misspelled. ;))
Hail, O radiance of the Light without setting!
Hail, Lightning-Flash that brightens the souls;
Hail, Thunder-Clap that strikes down the foes!
Hail, for you have raised the many-lighted Star;
Hail, for you have opened the many-coursed Stream!
Hail, O you who traced the living Model of the Pool;
Hail, O you who erased the stain of sin!
Hail, flowing Water that cleanses the conscience;
Hail, Holy Vessel overflowing with joy!
Hail, O Fragrance of the sweetness of Christ;
Hail, O Life of the Mystical Banquet!

The Sun is the true "Light of the World, which gives all men life."

This is basically admitted by a Catholic website no less!


Mary's position with regard to the Sun places her in the center or beyond the changing seasons and times, symbolized by the signs of the Zodiac.

This title is defined with regard to the Sun. There exists reciprocity between Mary and the Sun, Sol in Virgine and Virgo in Sole. The Sun, symbol for Jesus Christ, dwells in her virginal person, just as much as Mary has meaning only in and through the Sun Jesus Christ. See the Jesus (IHS) monogram on Mary's chest.

From: campus.udayton.edu/mary/prayers/litany11.jpg

Don't talk shit..

Nodens
01-31-2010, 12:15 AM
On that note...


It seems quite clear that there is now but one organization in the West that is of a traditional character and that has preserved a doctrine which could serve as an appropriate basis for the work in question, and this organization is the Catholic Church. It would be enough to restore to the doctrine of the Church, without changing anything of the religious form that it bears outwardly, the deeper meaning really contained in it, but of which its present representatives seem to be unaware, just as they are unaware of its essential unity with the other traditional forms ; these two things are, as a matter of fact, inseparable from one another. This would mean the realization of Catholicism in the true sense of the word, which etymologically expresses the idea of " universality," a fact that is too apt to be forgotten by those who seek to make of it no more than the denomination of one special and purely Western form, without any real connection with the other traditions. Indeed it may be said that in the present state of things, Catholicism has no more than a virtual existence since we do not see in it any real consciousness of universality ; but it is none the less true that the existence of an organization bearing such a name is in itself an indication that there is a possible basis for a restoration of the traditional spirit in its fullest sense, the more so because throughout the Middle Ages it has already served as a support for it in the West.

-Rene Guenon, Crisis of the Modern World

Majar
01-31-2010, 02:20 AM
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8716/6a00d8341bffb053ef00e54.jpg

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/456/chocolateaddictjesus.jpg