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I too would like to get back to St Anne ....
I have no problem with images of St Anne and the BVM as a (young) adult
woman, with or without the Christ Child.
I have no problem with the image of St Anne teaching the BVM to read -
indeed that may have something to say about the transmission of female
literacy in upper class households ...
What does bother / intrigue / puzzle me is the St Anne Trinitaire in its
most extreme form: as the large Mother with the BVM and the Christ Child
seemingly equal in size (small) sitting in her lap.
There is also a kind of sub-category where the BVM is a child but a kind of
Big Sister to the Christ Child, definitely a pre-pubescent girl.
This seems distinctly un-Christian to me.
Is there any pagan image / legend which this could be a roughly baptized
version of ?
Mother Earth and a male and female offspring of some sort ? Classical ?
Celtic ? Indo-European ?????
Any ideas ?
I have quite a collection of these images from an exhibition catalogue from
Nantes, Brittany in 1966.
Brenda.
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