Christos Anesti

On a recent trip to Ephesus, the ancient capital of the Roman province Asia Minor (nowadays Turkey), it dawned on me that right there, in the Church of Mary, at the Council of Ephesus in 425AD, patriarchy put down its leaden food and declared its ultimate and indisputable  superiority because it was there and then that Mary was dethroned and declared a mere human, albeit mother of the Son of God (thereby himself a God).

For centuries before that, Ephesus had been the centre of worship of the Goddess Kybele and later, under Greek rule, the Goddess Artemis - the Virgin Goddess and sister of Apollo.  

Mary, too, was worshipped in the founding years of Christianity.  But the Pope and his regional bishops decreed that while de facto worshipping three entities, Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, it was inadmissible to worship a woman.

  

In fact, in the years to come they would burn thousands of women at the stake.

Welcome to Christianity!  But then, under Hinduism women continue to be burned, raped and beaten...and let me not start with Islam.  

Welcome to Patriarchy then.