Re: RELIGION: intuition (OT) ( wasRe: dreaming and remembering)

July 21, 2005

José-,

>

> I don't think it is linked with

>matriarchy, because I see most of Latin American as very patriarchal,

>even more than the Anglo-Saxon world. So maybe here is another reason

>for the devotion to : it was the women's attempt to restore a lost

>balance with the males through the influence of religion.

>

What do you think about ordaining women priests?

Deanna

July 21, 2005

On 7/21/05, downwardog7 <illneverbecool@...> wrote:

> It's because of La Virgin de Guadalupe. Do you know the story? She

> appeared at the alter of an indigenous goddess, Tonanzin, speaking

> Nahuatl, to a peasant whose credibility/very existence is in doubt, at

> a time when the Catholic church was desparate for a way to convert the

> populace. She appeared to a poor indio, speaking his native tongue,

> and she had brown skin. Mass conversion ensued.

I read somewhere that first century Christian catacombs had images of

the Virgin engraved above the tombs of martyrs that were used as

altars, which I think predates the spread of Christianity to the

Americas.

Chris

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