I hear a lot about dark goddesses or saints being more intimidating. I’m curious if this applies to Black Madonna compared to other titles of Mother Mary. What’s your experience?
ETA: I’m also curious about Mary titles like Our Lady of Sorrows, Empress of Hell, etc
A video like this got 10 million likes so I want to know if most people really think these sorts of videos are funny
I believe they’re the same spirit regardless but I’m curious if Mary behaves differently in her different titles (e.g. Queen of Creation vs Stella Maris vs Black Madonna).
For context, I was always fairly average-looking. I was underweight for most of my life and now at 29 I’m on the slim side of a healthy weight.
Whenever I see discussions about how skinny people have it so much easier socially, I get sad because I grew up very skinny & I was the lowest on the social totem pole. The (neurotypical) overweight kids were low, but I was even lower. I would try to hang out with them but they would run away from me like I was plague so I ended up sitting alone.
I spent a lot of time isolating myself because I was socially traumatized. I finally decided in my mid-20s to try to make friends. I went to probably 50 different events at a variety of different groups over 2 years before I made a friend. Most communities excluded me.
Oftentimes I would go to events and end up crying afterwards because I was excluded.
I’ve made a few friends at a local pride center but aside from that, the only communities that were welcoming to me turned out to be run by known sexual predators who were trying to prey on me (as well as their enablers).
It feels like I’m invisible unless someone wants to exploit me sexually.
I’ve never been in a relationship or kissed anyone.
Anyway, what’s really bothering me lately is that people argue skinny people have it easier socially. I am coming up on 30 now. I’m worried that as I get older, gain weight, and age (therefore becoming less conventionally attractive), I’ll be even more invisible and isolated.
Can anyone relate or offer words of comfort or advice?
In the Greco-Roman era, Isis was considered the All-Mother Creator Goddess “of 10,000 Names” - all other goddesses were seen as faces of Isis. There are parallels between her, Mary, and Sophia.
Has anyone syncretized Isis and Christianity? Is Isis the same being as Sophia and/or Mary, in your experience? If not, does she mesh well with the Christian Godhead, or do you worship separately?
I’m curious if anyone has encountered saints in their near death experiences.
I want to venerate a Christian figure with explicit associations with cats.
I know that Mary has some folklore surrounding cats, namely that tabby cats’ “M” markings are a blessing from Mary because a tabby cat kept baby Jesus warm, & that a virgin cat gave birth to a kitten the same day Jesus was born. I also know that some historical artwork of Mary included cats.
I was wondering if anyone has personal experience with cats and Mary, or any other Christian figure (saint, angel, face of God, etc)?
“Panentheism ("all-in-God") is the belief that the divine interpenetrates every part of the universe while also extending beyond space and time. It maintains that God is both immanent within the world and transcends it”
Is there room for this perspective in Norse Paganism? Which deity(s) would it be?