Black Madonna Le Puy "museum reproduction" 100-300 CE]

100-300 CE]

The eternal jiva is reborn according to its karma until it attains liberation through divine grace

we are led to decisions for change that can heal the Earth and all her threatened species

but also to nourish the spirit

harvest loaves

Black Madonna Le Puy "museum reproduction" 100-300 CE]Her mountain shrine was the origination point for the 12 century Crusades. This image resembles an earlier one of Isis with Horus. As Virgin and Mother, she incorporated two of the faces of the ancient triple goddess (Virgin, Matron, Crone) which were least threatening to the church, but her continuity with archaic virgin goddesses is indisputable. As a later identity of Isis with Horus, she shows how papal and kingly thrones all hark back to the lap