Kurai Extravaganza

Distance leads enchantment, true enough. People like me better when they know nothing about me. However, that is not the reason that Christanity's Holy Virgin is so admired. She brings softness, feminity, and a human touch to the faith. All what she symbolizes, stands opposed to the God, full of vengeance and wrath, in whose name millions died, and her son, whom - according to the church - demands endless sacrifices from all, for whom thousands of women wasted away their lives in convends, bound by one way proclaimed wedding vows. In any regular marriage, the marriage would not exists, as both bride and groom have to say their vows, as well as the marriage has to be consumated. The virgin, on the other hand, demands nothing.

In ancient times, she was the great mother-goddess, and Christianity added her virginity to that. Virgin-mother, God the father, and Christ, the son. A family as the holy threesome. Not father, son and holy spirit as they, the men of the church, say. If we take the words about Christ being born out of a virginal womb and the reason for his dead, than mankind would been nowhere without the virgin, whom gave birth to the person whom died for the sins of all. To the story, the virgin is just as indispossable as the eternal 'traitor', Judas Iskarioth, the 13th apostle. Without any of them, there wouldn't have been any cause for Christianity, and no pope would have had a chance for shameless luxury.

Though, I am not even religous and dread things such as attending church (except for enjoying the architecture) and praying aloud, I enjoy the learnings of saints. Many a thing can be learned from it, and it can be used in many ways. However, there is quite a difference between Catholicism and Protestantism. Though a catholic in my love for beauty and rite, I despise the pompous hunger for luxury and selfenrichment, while there is but a hollow afterimage without anything of the original learnings present. It are just hollow phrases which are spoken. In learning, then, I find myself a protestant.

Let us just say that I am a nonbeliever with a deep interest in and love for such an old and import piece of culture and culture which still is entwined in people?s lives, though they may seem to believe there is not.

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Now, of course it can be debated how much of Mary's virginity is true, but this is of no importance. Her virginity was merely used to make Christ seem divine and to tie Christianity to the Old Religions It has no meaning as it is the symbol which counts. And she is the symbol of many things.

Virgin, Mother, Pieta.

The story of the Great Goddess once over.