𝕻𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄.

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While convincing those not to fight her she normally despises all forms of violence and bloodshed but Mother Mary can be shown multiple times to be an experienced fighter.Some ahistorical and factual art displays the blessed virgin brawling or pinning a dragon or traditionally the 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥.

Jesus is God and human so therefore Mary is simply human. Christian theology has always maintained that she was a human being and not God, but nevertheless, she was a human being in a very important and intimate place in the story of Jesus.There have been many images of Mary through the centuries. Some have derived from the Bible, such as the image from the book of Revelation showing Mary with a crown of 12 stars. She represents the early church with the 12 tribes of Israel represented by the stars.There have been images of Madonna and child; Mary seated in a chair with the child on her lap. Some of these images look very similar to images that we know about from some of the pagan goddesses at the time.Isis, for example, was seated in such a chair with the infant Horus on her lap in the same way.When Christianity was spreading across the Empire, it's clear that it deliberately took images from the pagan world in which it lived and into which it spread and used those images. Old holy wells and shrines were turned into Christian shrines. In Egypt a shrine of Isis was deliberately and self-consciously re-created as a shrine of Mary.

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝕮𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝕿𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝕾𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬also known as the circle of twelve stars is Mary's heavenly crown.In the book of Revelation St. John records seeing --❛❛ a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars” (Revelation 12:1).Traditionally this image is linked to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and throughout history, she has been depicted in art with a crown of 12 stars. These stars are seen as symbols of the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve apostles.The circle of stars often represents unity, solidarity and harmony in flags, seals and signs, and is also seen in iconographic motifs related to the Baroque allegoric art that sometimes depicts the Crown of Immortality.Currently speaking these stars that Mary uses are the exact depiction of the astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together. Or simply a star in a much smaller form.She can utilize the stars as a portal for weapons holding spears, chains, cross staffs, or they act as a magical blast canon. They can also perform as golden shields.

Shield

Pagan images of Mary, is she considered a goddess?

Many people, Protestants particularly, object to the figure that Mary has become. She is seen almost as a goddess figure, possibly derived from the fact that many Pagans became Christians in the early centuries of the church and they believed in goddesses, so Mary became to them the goddess. Many people would say that was something that went wrong with Christianity. There's nothing about Mary being a goddess in the New Testament.Jesus is God and human so therefore Mary is simply human. Christian theology has always maintained that she was a human being and not God, but nevertheless, she was a human being in a very important and intimate place in the story of Jesus.

One of the important cities for Mary was Ephesus, where the goddess Diana was worshipped. It's not surprising that Mary drew upon the imagery associated with the goddesses because that was the imagery the people knew. In the same way, we have imagery of Christ with a triumphant crowd looking like an emperor.

mary as a young girl at the temple

the angle said ❛ Greetings, favoured one. The Lord is with you.❜But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be. The angel said to her, ❛ Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. And look, you will conceive in your holy womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’ He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his kingdom. ❜Mary said: ❛ O my Lord, How shall I have a son when no man hath touched me? ❜He said: ❛ Even so: God creates what He wills: When He has decreed a plan, He but says to it, 'Be,' and it is. And look, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For with God, nothing will be impossible ❜she ended: ❛ I am the handmaid of the Lord; may it be to me according to your word. ❜ he then departed from her.When Joseph learned that Mary was pregnant, even though they hadn’t been wed, he “planned to divorce her quietly” because he was unwilling to expose her to public disgrace. A woman didn't have the right to divorce her husband, but he could divorce her. If she divorced she would lose her children as well. Most inheritances that she received would go straight to her husband. The husband would maintain legal responsibility for the children. And as a young woman, Mary was innocent but she knew people wouldn't believe her. she would've been kept in slavery for Prostitution or stoned to death if she was announced pregnant before marriage and at a young age.

mary visits Elizabeth

birth of jesus.

In those days, emperor Augustus decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register.While he was there with Mary, she gave birth to a son, named him 𝕵𝖊𝖘𝖚𝖘.She used a manger as a cradle because there was no place for them in the inn. After eight days, Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. Mary presented the baby in the temple, and was circumcised according to Jewish law("Jesus" (ישוע), which means "Yahweh is salvation".)while Jesus was resting soundly in his cradle, he was visited by Three Kings who were also widely known as the three wise men or magi. They have become known most commonly as Balthasar, Melchior, and Gaspar (or Casper). According to Western church tradition, Balthasar is often represented as a king of Arabia or sometimes Ethiopia, Melchior as a king of Persia, and Gaspar as the king of India.(The time frame that they need to explore to determine if there was anything unusual in the sky that might have caught the attention of the Magi. As for the time for the appearance of the star of Bethlehem, also called the Christmas Star, revealed in the night sky and later led them to Bethlehem. Many Christians see the star as a miraculous sign to mark the birth of Christ.)

Simeon, Anna and the holy family at the temple.

When Joseph and Mary had done everything required by the Law of the Lord and returned home safely, the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was with him.Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. Thinking he was in their company, they travelled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, ❛ Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you. ❜❛ Why were you searching for me? ❜ he asked. ❛ Didn’t you know I had to be at Father’s house? ❜ But they did not understand what he was saying to them.Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

Jesus and Mary at the wedding

The Crucifixion of Jesus

On Friday morning, Jesus was arrested and tried by the Sanhedrin, and then sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be scourged, and finally crucified by the Romans. It portrays his death as a sacrifice for sin.Jesus was stripped of his clothing and was then hung between two convicted thieves and, During this time, the soldiers affixed a sign to the top of the cross stating "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" which, according to the Gospel of John, was written in three languages (Hebrew, Latin, and Greek). They then divided his garments among themselves and cast lots for his seamless robe.there Mary(his mother) horribly witnessed his death with nothing but tears. she had already lost Joseph before the crucifixion. Throughout these dreadful hours, the unseen hosts of a universe stood, weep, and mourn as they gazed upon this remarkable appearance of Jesus as he was dying, even the most ignoble death of a punished 'criminal.'These and other friends of Jesus held their peace while they witnessed his great patience and grit and set their gaze upon his intense sufferings.( after Jesus's death, one roman soldier whom eyes were slightly blind [named Longinus] pierced his side with a spear to be certain that he had died, then blood and water gushed from the wound and upon his face and cured his eye problems. )

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𝕳𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘.

𝕸𝖆𝖗𝖞 was a first-century Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph, and the mother of Jesus. Mary is said to have been born on September 8th as the daughter of St. Joachim and Anne in Jerusalem, an area of the old Roman Empire that is today part of Israel, Palestine, Egypt, and Turkey. She was presented in the Temple and made a virginity vow.Palestine had relatively limited legal and economic rights in the first century. This is especially problematic in the realm of economic rights. When a girl lived in her father's household, any labour she accomplished or earnings she received belonged to her father.Mary, like other Jewish women and girls her age, would have spent most of her day working. Every day, an enormous amount of labour had to be done, and it was mostly done by hand.

mary and Gabriel

As soon as he was plotting the dissolution, he fell asleep.then in his dream "an angel of the Lord" came to him and told him to not hesitate to take Mary as his wifehe said:❛ Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. ❜All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:❛ The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel. ❜ (which means “God is with us”).When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife.Mary travelled to Judea with a group of close friends to visit Elizabeth, when she arrived at Judea and called out for Elizabeth, Elizabeth heard Mary's greetings and was filled with the holy spirit:Elizabeth, In a loud voice she exclaimed:
❛ Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. But why am I so favoured, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her! ❜Mary then stayed with Elizabeth for 3 months, she had witnessed the birth of John the Baptist(Marys's nephew), then returned home.

the magi noticing the star of Bethlehem

Joseph was again warned in a dream that King Herod wanted to murder the infant Jesus, the family fled by night to Egypt and stayed there for some time. After Herod's death in 4 BC, they returned to Nazareth in Galilee, rather than Bethlehem, because Herod's son Archelaus was the ruler of Judaea.There was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah. Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required, Simeon took him in his arms and praised God.The child’s father and mother marvelled at what was said about him. Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary: ❛ This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be spoken against so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too. ❜There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day. Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem. the family then returned to Galilee, to their own city in Nazareth.

Jesus teaching at the same temple

The wedding at Cana, Jesus's first public miracle.

On the third day, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Mary was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, Mary said to her son, ❛ They have no wine. ❜And Jesus said to her, ❛ Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come. ❜Mary said to the servants: ❛ Do whatever he tells you. ❜Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ❛ Fill the jars with water. ❜ And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them:❛ Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast. ❜ So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him:❛ Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now. ❜ This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

mary at the foot of the cross

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, ❛ Woman, here is your son, ❜ and to the disciple, ❛ Here is your mother. ❜ that those were but his last words of her only son.From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.and At the end of her earthly life. Mary died a natural death, this time was called (the Dormition of the Theotokos, the falling asleep), like any human being; that her soul was received by Christ upon death; and that her body was resurrected on the third day after her repose, at which time she was taken up, soul and body, into heaven in anticipation of the general resurrection. Her tomb, according to this teaching, was found empty on the third day.and at last reunited with her son, for eternity.The Assumption of Mary.and from there on she is considered by millions to be the most meritorious saint of the religion and proclaimed as the patroness of all humanity till this day many claims to have received miracles and visions from her.𝐄𝐧𝐝. (I appreciate you continuing to read. As much as I adore myths and Christian lore, I sincerely hope you like how I've portrayed The Virgin Mary or the story as a whole that I wrote!!!)