Hellenistic roots of the Virgin Mary
 
Engelsman (57) refers to a "Hecate-Artemis-Diana-Mary" mythic complex
 
indicating "connections between some of the great goddesses of the Hellenistic world and Mary, who inherited certain attributes and powers traditionally belonging to these earlier feminine deities"
> from Joan Chamberlain Engelsman's The Feminine Dimension of the Divine (1979)

> tagged with #greece, #christianity, #myth, #goddess

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