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The Virgin Mary is a remnant of a divinity much worshipped in antiquity in the countries of the Middle East and the shores of the Mediterranean. Named Ischtar or Astarte, and later Aphrodite, she was a fertility and activity goddess, and not in the least chaste. This goddess was related to the planet Venus. Christianity took her over and made her a virgin. Many of the holy days, or holidays, in the West are related to this fertility goddess. This was the case during the Middle Ages in Sweden before a ruler imposed the Lutheran teaching at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
These teachings (and their acceptance) represented in a way the final rejection of female divinity, and the total acceptance of male superiority, patriarchalism, and, yes, stupidity, for lack of psychological balance in the ideological system.
This entry sign was one of the signs for Virgin Mary used on clog almanacs (see  in Group 5) to denote holidays such as the Annunciation Day, etc.
The sign is structurally similar to  , which means mountain in the earliest Chinese system of writing.
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