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To: Dayuhan who wrote (32592)	3/15/1999 11:42:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Steven, the Mary-escaped-to-England-pregnant argument is made by some European scholars, none of them seeming like stroking the royals in their intent at all, and most of them looking like they live in dusty old library stacks. These are similar to the scholars who spend their lives searching for, and trying to authenticate early Christian relics. It would be amusing, of course, if the European royals were actually Jewish! Jesus' mother, Mary, was a goddess figure in Europe until the 1200's. Depictions of her up to that point show her looking quite womanly and fertile, not saintly. Of course, this is a common technique when a new religion in Europe (Christianity) is trying to convert all the pagans--they make their symbols similar to those of the older religion. There may have been some confusion about "virgin" and "unmarried woman" which got the virgin birth mythology going--i.e., there were mistranslations of early texts and these made it into the Bible. However, the virgin myth is an important part of the early pagan mythologies, as well. Here is a very interesting discussion on how Mary may have been turned into a virgin after the fact: infidels.org