by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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The character we are going to talk about is very famous worlwide. But you totally ignore she was a Priestess of Artemis, one of the last, at a moment a new religion was going to appear. Her role in this new religion, which is also universally known was determining. She was a rich woman, even she was seen by some people as an hairdresser and a perfumer : she would even be at some extend the most famous Earth ever had, with her worshipped mother-in-law carrying the same first name. We guess you don't understand at all whom we are speaking about !
She was from Phenician-Syriac origin, and most likely a Princess due to her rank of Priestess of the Goddess Artemis in the Near East. Does this help you ? Probably not ! The new religion she was going to give birth with an extremely famous character, equally from a renowned Royal House, was then hybrid. Of course, few scholars know or acknowledge such a detail. And paradoxically, the people who know the less who she was exactly are the present followers of this new world religion !
The name of her husband was starting with a Y (or a J), depending on the language you are using. He himself was a hidden Prince. Some people call him the Prince of Orion, to show his father was in the Skies. Is it clearer for you ? Not yet, we think ! Her husband and her had a different religion. And this also is totally ignored by most people nowadays. In their mind, she had obviously the same religion of origin as her husband when they met... especially when you consider it a very long time after, like now !
This question is very important to understand, as till nowadays her name has been associated with a certain confusion on her real status and identity : perhaps the composite being created from three different women, was intended not to openly say she was a sacred Priestess of the Artemis cult initially ? It has been pretended during a long time she wasn't married with her man, which is not true. And in her case, marriage is strangely taken wrongly : it would be allowed for almost everybody, but not for her and her quite famous husband !
To conclude about our exceptional character of the day, something must be added : in her case and the one of her husband, it has dogmatically been decided by Paulinist opponents that their couple shouldn't be recognized and accepted by all. This may even look ridiculous when you read carefully the very canonic Gospel according to Saint John, which is saying Jesus was married and called the "husband" by his cousin Saint John the Baptist : "the one who belongs the bride is the husband ; but the husband's friend stands near him and listens to him" (Saint John, III-29). This detail seems to be an allusion to the sacrament of the nuptial room, which is giving back its primary harmony to the Cosmos, Jesus being considered as the Prince of Orion !
As a lot of people believe in Maria-Magdalena and Jesus, it doesn't appear fair to have denied dogmatically to them the natural and historical right of marriage. And the two children they had (Sarah and Yeshuah) can hardly be considered to have never existed. About that, there is a long tradition making the Merovingian dynasty which once reigned on France, as descending from Jesus Christ and Maria-Magdalena ! The "Sang Real" (Royal Blood) of the original Priory of Sion - dating from 1116 - would have become the "Saint Graal" (Holy Grail) in French !
At this stage, you most likely started to guess whom we are talking about ? And you may be right. A strange destiny made her becoming friend with two other famous characters connected to the public death of her husband. If we give you their names, you will understand with certitude whom we are speaking. Those names are Pontius Pilatus, Prefect of Judea, and his wife, the Roman Princess Claudia Procula : see our article untitled "Rediscovering famous characters VII : Maria and Claudia, or the happy end of a marital drama !", published on Global Politics and Economics on September 18th, 2019 !
So now, you have progressively discovered with a certain amazement that our character of the day is Maria Magdalena (Maria of Magdala) ! Without her, there would have been any recognized divinity for Jesus Christ, as it's her who saw him first after his resurrection. And everybody knows that resurrection is impossible for a human being. Without her, no Universal ("Catholic") Religion either so, even her true role and origin are always hidden without the great respect she is deserving with her husband !
Don't forget the idea of Jesus being the son of God is not coming from his male disciples at all, but from Maria Magdalena...and Jesus himself ! When he was a teenager, his legal father, Joseph, scolded him because he was playing on a saturday, and Jesus took him back by saying : how dare you speak so to the Son of God ! Anyhow, the fact remains that M (Maria-Magdalena) and J (Jesus) are beloved and worshipped in the whole world, in spite of all obstacles since a bit more than two thousand years...with another Maria, Maria the Virgin, mother of Jesus-Christ ! And about Saint John who is said to have written the Gospel carrying his name, he musn't be confused with Saint John of Patmos who wrote the Apocalypse dedicated to the tribulations of present times with the final Armageddon (for the battle of Meggido in Israel) !
