Black Madonna Le Puy East Asian Many goddess images strive for

Many goddess images strive for ideal feminine beauty while ignoring the frightening images of female divinity found throughout the world

10 1/4 inch resin statue

Gathered around a sacred water jug

she produced all earthly life

Black Madonna Le Puy East Asian Many goddess images strive forHer 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