The Assumption of the Virgin
Reflections: Anne Maria Clarke
Featuring the painting: The Dornination & the Assumption of the Virgin by Fra Angelico
& music: Ave Maria: by Ashana
Whether we are religious or not, the moment has meaning for us all and most particularly for women, for it heralds the loosening of the grip of the great patriarchies and their long-time banishment from canon and creed of female deity. Remember Eve, and all the trouble she inadvertently stepped into to by eating the apple?
Well to cut a long an utterly fascinating story short - there’s a very real sense in which the Assumed Virgin is a far, far distant granddaughter of Eve being welcomed back to Paradise and regaining her lost divinity - for you see Eve was not just any girl, she was in her turn the granddaughter of countless classical and pre-classical goddesses from ancient times who over the centuries had gradually been stripped and dis - possessed of their power.
So you see 1954 was a momentous moment in time - and its why the 15th August really is worth celebrating.
The symbolism is immeasurably important and perhaps, as the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung has suggested,
‘the most significant event of the twentieth century.’
Much love
Anne Maria Clarke
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Ann Baring & Jules Cashford : Myth of the Goddess
The Dormination & Assumption of the Virgin: Fra Angelico
Ashana: Ave Maria
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