Black Madonna Le Puy East Asian The eternal jiva is reborn

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

Gathered around a sacred water jug

Hephaestus was a very kind and loveable god

ready to protect and defend her followers

some dating from Neolithic times

Black Madonna Le Puy East Asian The eternal jiva is rebornHer 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