Mary Magdalene

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CHRISTIANITY'S HIDDEN GODDESS

Traditionally portrayed as a marginal figure, a reformed prostitute and penitent befriended by Jesus, the Mary Magdalene of the Gospels is always inferior to the male disciples, though in recent times there have been moves to adopt her as an icon of liberal Christianity and a "thirteenth" disciple.
But another Magdalene is now emerging - the "Apostle of the Apostles" and "The Woman Who Knows All". The Gnostic Gospels reveal that for the early Church she was second in importance only to Jesus. Mary and Jesus were lovers and spiritual partners, and she may even have borne him a child. She may not have been a Jewish woman, but could have come from Ethiopia, a land with its own cult of itinerant prietesses, known to have travelled as far as Egypt and Israel to preach.
Picknett re-evaluates the evidence from the Gospels, the contemporary Gnostic works, and ancient Egyptian texts, seeking enlightenment in fields as diverse as the art of Leonardo da Vinci and the statues of Black Madonnas. She believes that virtually everything the Church teaches about Mary Magdalene is a deliberate attempt to cover up uncomfortable facts; that it is time to see the real woman and to reasses the history of Christianity.

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