Video I: Goddess persists in Abrahamic religions

Persistence of goddess traditions in the Abrahamic religions

Hamsa from Canaanite, Jewish, Christian, Muslim: Hand of Fatima

Khochmah, Shekhinah, Sakina

Smashing and defacing Goddess icons; demonized, blasphemous, heretical

Khochmah syncretizes with Sophia

Isis into Christian Madonna. Mary, literally the Goddess Veiled.

Churches founded over pagan temples.

Holy Spirit / Ruakh ha Qodesh merges with dove of Atargatis, Hera, Tanit

Hagia Sophia in the Greek Orthodox world, and especially Slavic icons.

Book of Kells, Mary with halo; Brigid becomes her midwife

Harley Psalter: Goddess (possibly Herodias) dancing with stone, tree, snake, cornucopia and garlands; but superseded by Christian god

Boniface fells the Thunder Oak of Geismar; the Noce di Benevento cut down (but memory as a witch-place lasted into Inquisition trials ca. 1600)

Frankish images of Mother Earth with greenery, cornucopia, distaff. She suckles snakes, or animals. Images of Mother Earth in Christian texts.

Earth gets turned into Luxuria, with two snakes at her breast, now made into a representation of Lust, and as such, allowed in churches, especially in France and Spain. Some on baptismal fonts.

Mary tramples on Luxuria, who becomes more and more demonized, the snakes chewing on her breasts, more agonized, and aged

In Scandinavia, she remains more pagan, chimeric beings at her breasts.

Video II: Black Madonnas and Marian Iconography

Fairies in church architecture. Goddess into saints

Vesica Piscis in Christian symbolism. Sapientia of Hildegarde.

Black Madonnas of France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Poland

La Virgen de Guadalupe in Extremadura and Mexico (as Tonantzín)

Virgen de Regla, Caridad del Cobre, Erzulie Dantor in the African Diaspora

Ethiopian Madonna; Sara la Kali in Camargues

Vierges Ouvrantes / Shreinmadonna: her body encloses the All

Maria's mantle of mercy, the protector

Pokrov ("she who covers") and Bogoroditsa ("god-birther") in Russia, with veil in hands, sometimes with rushnik tucked into her belt

Mary as Tree, symbol on Swiss peasant rebel flag

 Video III: Goddess in the Tree

Snake goddess in the tree: two dozen European depictions of Eve and the Serpent in Genesis, from 900 to 1600: Spain, France, Britain, Germany...

Snake woman (or lizard) coiled around a tree, snakes coiled around spine (Kundalini), and snakes coiled around the caduceus of Ishtar

St Margaret of Antioch with her dragon, a virgin martyr who became the protector of pregnant and lactating women

Dragon Princess in East Asia: China, Korea, Japan

Virgin with the Unicorn in the flowering garden, turns into the Virgin at the Annunciation, and the furry Wild Woman with her unicorn

Allegorical Goddesses with pagan symbols. Prudentia. Sapientia. Fortitude.

Negative allegories, demonized Eve, Ecclesia tramples a blindfolded Synagoga. The Anti-Semitic blood libel attaches to Mary.

The Lady of Lourdes: the simpering ecclesiastical version and the potent Mystery that revealed itself through Bernadette Soubirou, the real vision.

Virgin in the Tree mysteriously appears, or Lady in the Mountain, or saint sitting in the middle of a megalithic circle. Megaliths to chapels.

Basque "saint in the cave," a natural formation.

Labyrinth of Chartres, the Rose, Black Madonna Notre Dame Sous-Terre. More church labyrinths with bird-dragons

St Anne, mother of Mary, adored in Bretagne; depictions of a Woman Clothed with the Sun from the book of Revelation

Sirenas, mermaids, harpies, fantastic beings, in Romanesque church capitals. Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and the scallop shell. Goddesses with dragons, birds, animals in folk sculpture

Sophia / Sapientia giving breast to seekers. Goddess in alchemist symbolism: woman in the tree again, energetic transformations of the elements. Alchemical goddesses / allegories in the Aurora Consurgens.

Resurgence of Artemis Ephesia as a goddess of Nature, and Isis too. The names of West Asian and Mediterranean goddesses catalogued.

Anima Mundi, "world soul." The Three Fates, Morai.

Transmutations of Indigenous Spirit under colonial rule. Earth and Water in Peru; Pachamama emerges as Santa María de Potosí.

Voyage of the Sable Venus, and modern African Diasporic reworkings by Harmonia Rosales, Birth of Oshun; and by Lili Bernard, The Sale of Venus

Diasporic African traditions: Santería/Lucumí. Yemaya becomes la Virgen de Regla, and Oshun becomes La Caridad del Cobre. Mami Wata and Santa Marta la Dominicana [not Santa María as is said in the video]

Mexican and Chicana artists reinterpret la Virgen de Guadalupe / Tonantzín as protector, warrior, athlete, and cholita

Wrathful goddesses of Indian Tantra and Bön religion get integrated into Tibetan Buddhism. Palden Lhamo and the Tenmas converted into Dharma Protectors. Ritual pegging down of Srinmo, Mother Earth, for buildings

Tara challenges the Buddhist theme of inferior female body with her vow to attain enlightenment as a female. Green Tara (Syama).

Buried goddesses reemerge from the Earth. Greece, Türkiye, Italy.

Visionary re-imagining: the Cailleach at Drogheda. Driftwood woman-shrine in Colorado. Tree of Life Ruakh haQodesh. Reenvisioning Sistine Chapel creation story in African women.

Nana Burukú of Dahomey in Brazilian Diaspora. Another black veiled goddess, Ma Ze, Tian Hou of China. Lady of the Realm in Vietnam.