I have been listening to some favourite Palm Sunday hymns. Not for the first time my mind wandered and (with respect, not cynicism) I wondered if the world would have been a kinder place had Mary born a daughter?
Perhaps it would have become 'Christine-ity'? :o)
But I agree with Prudie, if that *had* been the case, we'd have been taught to follow a different prophet.
God probably was a female originally; the first deity seems to have been the earth mother, in charge of things like fertility. She was gradually displaced by male gods, generally war gods. But her status seems to have lingered on in later goddesses like Diana, Isis and Astarte, and ultimately Mary too.
It appears she only had sons, though, Jesus and James.
I wondered if the world would have been a kinder place had Mary born a daughter?
I would imagine Balthazar, Gaspar, and Melchior would have turned the air blue with expletives and who could blame them ... Travelling all that way bearing excellent gifts only to discover Mary has a bloody girl!
Do you know, Queen....I have never wondered that.....I know I'd be told to stop wondering if I had asked this as a child.....God chose for Mary to have a boy....that's all you need to know!
But the....what if she'd had a girl.....has given me lots to think around now......interesting...x