Mary and The Trinity “From the earliest ages, the concept of the Great Goddess was a trinity and a model for all subsequent trinities, female, male, or mixed. “ –The Women’s Encylopedia of Myths & Secrets

The Holy Trinity

The Father-Son-and-Holy-Ghost is not the only Holy Trinity, nor even the
oldest trinity. Historically, Father-Mother-Child was a much more wide-spread
trinity, one that many still see in Jesus-Mary-and-Joseph today. Even
older still is the trinity of the Triple Goddess: Maiden-Mother-and-Crone.

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Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Father, Mother and Child
Maiden, Mother and Crone
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As recorded in the scriptures of early Christians,
the Gnostic scriptures, The Holy Ghost was envisioned as
Sophia, the Goddess of Wisdom (C *). The Holy Ghost’s symbol, a dove,
is an ancient Goddess symbol, well-known in the days of early Christianity,
as was the concept of Wisdom as female, Sophia (B, C *). Sophia The Goddess
of Wisdom was popular not only with early Christians, but was also mentioned
numerous times in the Old Testament, as evidenced in these quotes from
Proverbs 8:

““I Wisdom dwell with prudence, and find
out knowledge . . . . By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
. . . The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his
works of old. . . .I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,
or ever the earth was. . . . When he gave to the sea his decree, that
the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations
of the earth: Then I was with him, as one brought up with him: and I
was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him. . .”

Gnostics viewed Sophia as the
Bride of God, the female power which the Sky Gods (like Jehovah) needed
to validate their rule (B).
Asherah fulfilled a similar function as the Wife of Yahweh, in the
ancient (unorthodox) worship of the Hebrews (D, E *).

Father, Mother and Child
Father, Mother and Child (often a Savior-Son) is an ancient trinity, naturally
reflected in the world around us. Just as Mary is strongly linked to Isis,
so the Holy Family, Joseph, Mary and Jesus, is linked to the trinity of
Osiris, Isis and Horus. In Christianizing the pagan world, this family
trinity was familiar and, therefore, effective in encouraging conversion
to a religion that seemed so similar to native worship (F).

Today, the Holy Family persists in popular worship as a Trinity, despite
it’s marginal orthodoxy, mainly because the family is a real-life model
for everyday life, much more real and familiar that an all-male trinity
or an ephemeral Spirit.

Mary is linked to ancient Triple Goddesses through
much of the symbolism associated with her. The Protoevangelium of James,
which describes Mary’s girlhood, portrays Mary as spinning in the Temple.
This links her with the triple Fates, the three Goddesses known as the
Moerae or “Marys” who spun out the destinies of those on earth. Cyril
of Jerusalem, in his Coptic Discourse, linked the three Marys at
the foot of the Cross (Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Mary Salome) with
these same triple Fates. A striking similarity occurs in Nordic mythology
where the three Fates stand at the foot of Odin’s tree of sacrifice. Welsh
mythology links Mary with their triple White Goddess,
Brigit. Even today, Mary is called The White Mary (B*).