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hokieokie (OP) User ID: 1221208 United Kingdom 01/11/2011 05:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The plural in the name of the town of Les Saintes Maries-de-la-Mer derives from the fact that two Marys, Mary Magdalene and Sarah, arrived there from the sea. Still today, gypsies in the South of France call Sarah “the Egyptian” or “Notre Dame Noir” (Our Black Lady). The epithet “black” does not refer to any particular complexion or to skin burnt by the sun of Egypt, where Mary sought refuge after fleeing Jerusalem (4); black is the colour reserved to priestesses who have achieved the rank of Sophia: initiated into the holy wisdom of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of gnosis, the knowledge of the nature of all things. In the Gnostic creed of the initiated, the colour black means that self-consciousness, knowledge and understanding existed even before the duality or polarisation that gave origin light and to the material world. In St Mark’s Gospel we read that when the descendent of the royal house of David, (5) the Nazar-Essene (an Essene of Nazar) Yeshua ben Joseph, Jesus, was in the house of Simon Lazarus in Bethany, he was approached by a woman holding an alabaster vase. The woman, Mary Magdalene, anointed his head with precious oil (6). This ritual was known as hieros gamos, or holy matrimony, by the Greeks. In Jewish tradition, and later in the Sumerian, Babylonian and Canaanitic traditions, the ritual anointing of the king is performed only by the royal priestess or by the royal spouse in her role as Isis. It was only after this ritual union with the priestess that kings assumed their role of messiah, the anointed |