http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/goddess-of-mexico.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/goddess-of-mexico.html#comment-833 The Wild Hunt » Quick Note: Hail Mary Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:04:48 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/the-goddess-of-mexico.html#comment-833 [...] an object of veneration for staunchly conservative Catholics,  jaded post-modernists, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Vodouisants alike. In her new book “Full of Grace: Encountering Mary in Faith, [...] [...] an object of veneration for staunchly conservative Catholics,  jaded post-modernists, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Vodouisants alike. In her new book “Full of Grace: Encountering Mary in Faith, [...]

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/goddess-of-mexico.html#comment-832 The Wild Hunt » America the Eclectic and other Pagan News of Note Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:17:26 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/the-goddess-of-mexico.html#comment-832 [...] located on a former pagan shrine. While nearly a million travel to gain the blessings of the “goddess of Mexico”, the local priests want you to know that there is no trace of pre-Christianity left in the rites [...] [...] located on a former pagan shrine. While nearly a million travel to gain the blessings of the “goddess of Mexico”, the local priests want you to know that there is no trace of pre-Christianity left in the rites [...]

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/goddess-of-mexico.html#comment-831 The Wild Hunt » The Coredemptrix Dog Whistle? Wed, 27 May 2009 14:46:39 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/the-goddess-of-mexico.html#comment-831 [...] social justice work of people like Dorothy Day.  Best of all, they have their very own active and thriving goddess tradition (at least that is what we Pagans would call it) in the form of Mary, mother of Jesus. Over the [...] [...] social justice work of people like Dorothy Day.  Best of all, they have their very own active and thriving goddess tradition (at least that is what we Pagans would call it) in the form of Mary, mother of Jesus. Over the [...]

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/goddess-of-mexico.html#comment-830 juffie Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:56:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/12/the-goddess-of-mexico.html#comment-830 And ironically, that same name is found in the infamous Treaty of Guadalupe signed up my street in Mesilla, NM -- a treaty hated even by the lead estados unidos representative sent to negotiate it (he reflected his shame in his own journals). Sadly, as anger and prejudice against the inflow of Hispanic, particularly Mexican, peoples fills this heartland it is little remembered that these lands were theirs, and by any objective examination of those old times, might have been theirs still anyway. And ironically, that same name is found in the infamous Treaty of Guadalupe signed up my street in Mesilla, NM — a treaty hated even by the lead estados unidos representative sent to negotiate it (he reflected his shame in his own journals). Sadly, as anger and prejudice against the inflow of Hispanic, particularly Mexican, peoples fills this heartland it is little remembered that these lands were theirs, and by any objective examination of those old times, might have been theirs still anyway.

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