Throughout my search into the Catholic faith, its origins, and its history, there is something that I would like to share with you and it is yet again more proof that Catholicism is pagan.
The title "queen of heaven" in Catholicism was from the Council of Ephesus. It has been used almost as long as the catholic church has been around. The Catholic church uses Revelation 12 to justify their use of this term.
Rev 12: 1-5: A great and wondrous sign
appeared in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven; an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.
1. The Woman in this Passage represents the Church. The twelve stars are the twelve Apostles.
2. The Woman represents Israel. The stars are the twelve tribes.
What is odd about this is the origin of the term "queen of heaven" is actually in reference to Ishtar, pagan Babylonian Goddess. In images of her, there is most always a circle disk behind her head. If you pay attention to the art of Mary throughout the age of Catholicism, you will see that most often, there is a disk behind her head. You have to ask yourself if this is intentional. Ishtar image in paintings and statues often show her with an infant with a disk behind the baby's head as well. I urge you to look at the history and the art behind this. It is very easy to see the connection.
With Ishtar being the goddess of fertility(it is said that she was also a sun goddess and a sea goddess as well) it shows the motherhood of her. The same is with Mary.
The Catholic Church denies this and it is understandable why. They do not want to admit the paganism within the church. They make the claim that there are terms used in scripture that were originated from paganism. While this is true, you have to look at how closely these two are to each other.
Ishtar was thought to be ever virginal and that she is the overseer of all things. Just like the Catholic Church declares Mary is.
I will be adding more to this at a later time.
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