Happy Birthday, Estelanui!

[whiteling]

*dashes in just in time to wish Estelanui a happy birthday*

Happy Birthday, dear Francesca! :-)

I hope you are having an enjoyable day full of pleasant happenings. *hugs*

And look - those lovely ladies have come, bearing gifts for you:

Comments

[estelanui]

Thank you dear whiteling for your wishes and for your incredible gift. The pic is beautiful , the art is intriguing, but you choice opened me a new window about the triple goddess

[whiteling]

I'm very glad you liked the BD photo so much. :-)
Yes, this votive altar is especailly beautiful; it is placed in a huge room at the Landesmuseum and the three goddesses literally seem to bless the entire room. There are other Matrons altars too, which look more rural and simple. But they all exude a very powerful energy.

I didn't know of the Matrons cult either, before I lived in the Rhineland region. It's a very special thing of this area, I mean, in that high concentration of remaining altars. Cologne and Bonn have been the centres of Matrons worship. Under the Minster of Bonn the archaeologists found many votive altars and oblations, all dedicated to the Matrons.
Thanks for the Epona link. I loved the depiction with the two horses by her side very much.

The worship of Matres and Matrones seems different from the Madonna one, but the needs of the worshippers are not different at all.
You are so right. We will never know how the old rites and worship looked like, but the things worshippers prayed for haven't changed much.

I wish

Pt. 1 (sorry, it got really long...)

[mechtild]

Estelanui, happy birthday, if well after the fact. I loved that your birthday inspired this post by Whiteling. (This is for you to read, too, Whiteling

Pt. 2 (this is the end of it.)

[mechtild]

The reason your post, Whiteling, and your comments, Estelanui--in combination with the thoughts of Riane Eisler--so brought the St. Anne-Virgin-Child art works to mind after seeing the Matronae is that here is all this devotion and art work for St. Anne and the Virgin and the Virgin's child ), yet in the scriptural texts there are no references to St. Anne, or Mary's mother at all

Re: Pt. 2 (this is the end of it.)

[estelanui]

thank you for your wishes mechtild. I have no time for a suitable reply tonight, sorry. I will catch during the weekend. :)

The sculture of Mary, Anna and "Emerentia" is really stunning.

There are another ‘female’ episode in Jesus’s family: Mary Virgin visitation to St. Elizabeth in the Gospel of Luke 1:39-56

by Giotto
http://www.mystudios.com/gallery/giotto/15a.html

or by Cristoforo Caselli
http://www.cattedrale.parma.it/img/crono-catt/A23b-pag155.jpg

or by Jacopo Carrucci
http://www.po-net.prato.it/artestoria/fuori/htm/visit.htm

more is coming....