VIRGIN MARY THE HOMELAND OF THE GODDESSES: ANATOLIA From Kubaba to Cybele, Leto to Artemis, and Virgin Mary to Sarıkız… The gratitude sentiments and vows of the people in Anatolia for these goddesses form similar parts of the goddess tradition in Anatolia in different epochs. Hence, determining the worship places in the Anatolia, means pursuing the women of such epoch who have many roles in social and religious life. FROM CYBELE TO VIRGIN MARY Cybele is a result of societies’ observations about the women giving products like soil. She has been assumed as the mother goddess belief’s result. The Hittites who see themselves as the people of thousand gods’ religion, named Anatolian Cybele as Arinna then Kubaba. The Urartus who are mentioned in Old Testament and who lived near Van, Turkey; VIRGIN MARY This sacred woman, which has been accepted by two dominant religions and as a primer member of the third dominant religion, supposedly shows us the way of solidarity and the fraternity, living in an earth where there are no conflicts. In a special surah (Al-I İmran Surah) of the Quran it says: “The angels said: O Mary! Behold, Allah has elected thee and made thee pure and raised thee above all the women of the world.” |
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Ephesus is a sacred place where there are many Christian tourists today, and was a place where there were religious visits once. The house of Virgin Mary where Virgin Mary spent her last years in Ephesus is just a few kilometres far away from the point where people worshipped to Artemis.
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