Virgin goddesses, Great Mother Earth Goddesses Saints and Witches

The ancient lunar priestesses were referred to as virgins. “Virgin” doesn’t mean a woman who never had sex with a man like the church says today. The Latin word “virgin” comes from “vir” meaning strength, power, powerful woman.. It applied to the goddesses who were called virgins not because of their purity, but because of their vigor, because of their independence.

Many women like Marie, Isis, Ishtar, Artemis, Astarté, were called virgins, which was not a sexual reference…

And all the great cultural heroes of the past, mythical or historical, were born of virgin mothers or powerful mothers:

Osiris, Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Dionysus, Jesus;

all were affirmed as children of the Great Mother, because their power comes from her, so many early cultures are Matrilineal.

But religions, when they ceased to be spiritual and became dogmas, much changed.

Still everyone has been wondering how a “virgin” can get pregnant…?

Judeo – Christians could not conceive the Virgin Mary as a woman not dependent on man, that is, the notion that a  woman was born from man’s rib, then, they invented the idea of “no sin conceived” to denigrate sexuality.

Religions have distorted the meaning in sexually pure, caste, never touched.

When Jeanne d’Arc, with her witch associations, called herself La Pucelle d’Orléans, “the young,” “the Virgin,” the word retained part of its original pagan meaning of a strong and harmonious woman.

And that’s what is needed today, a meeting between man and woman without submission.

But neither is the exit from radicalism, which only wants to change the Pope for a Mother , a Francis for a Francisca. Could that deepen patriarchy?

In addition, the issue is not just gender but classism, racism and other -isms. That will be possible from community alteration.

We must reclaim the Great Mother, which is the Pachamama or Cosmic Mother, as life-giver, who together with Pachakamak or Cosmic Father, as life-force, contain, sustain and maintains existence. One could maybe have to get out of religions and atheisms to regain spiritual balance and respect .