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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike Margolis, post: 3239001, member: 88401&quot;][USER=82549]@gsimonel[/USER] </p><p>I know little of Latin but these lines from the essay linked above seem to also refer to the Deum in that usage as singular:&quot;Next to that coin is another with the legend MATRI DEVM. This time Cybele is standing, but she is still demonstrating supreme casual confidence by the way she <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/reverse_securitas.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/reverse_securitas.html" rel="nofollow">leans on that column</a> and crosses her legs. She is holding her drum and her sceptre, and one of her lions is still at her feet. If that old theory is right, and this coin was supposed to suggest that Julia shared some of the characteristics of the Magna Mater, then it is worth noting that this coin was minted in the year after Domna&#039;s husband Severus died, when their son Caracalla was emperor. <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/family_coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/family_coins.html" rel="nofollow">Caracalla</a> hated <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/family_coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/family_coins.html" rel="nofollow">his brother Geta</a>, and had killed him a year before. So choosing this date for a reference to &quot;Mother of God&quot; in the singular might have been a pointed reference to Caracalla&#039;s sole rule and his position of supreme power.&quot;</p><p>In doing a little research online it seems the title was also related to ISIS as the mother of HORUS, the singular deity,&nbsp; who held the throne of his father Osiris, and it&#039;s adoption by the dominant form of Christianity. Nice write-up Warren [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] and follow-ups. In my study with the Native American indigenous cultures I have come to the conclusion that it is good to come from the perspective that there is only one Goddess, they call &quot;First Woman&quot; in creation stories as well as many other names but she has many different aspects. These different functions often relate to the the time frame involved- ie. the year and the seasons, the day and night cycle(the lions as suns of dawn and dusk) or the precessional cycle of the rise and fall of cities and civilizations. Here she is as the Earth herself/Tree bearing fruit and Gaia/Tellus mother of the four seasons.[ATTACH=full]847422[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]847423[/ATTACH] Here is a better one I got from online, it may be TIFs copy, not sure.</p><p>In relating to the Goddess it is also beneficial to internalize the ancient worldview that the Earth was the center of the entire creation and all else including sky and sea, underworld and time cycles(motions,turnings)were projections or developments from her body. ([USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] your new labyrinth is a beauty from another thread.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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