The Father (Heavenly god, sun or sky God, remote and inscrutable) = El (Canaanite for ‘Lord’) = Yahweh = Allah = Zeus = Odin = Elohim = Osiris
And let us not forget that our God, the God of the desert religions, is like this El in yet another significant way – He is constantly being spoken to on mountains and high places. Where did Moses commune with God? Mount Sinai. Where was the Temple built? Mount Moriah. Where did Yeshua give the beatitudes and pray frequently to His Father? Mount Olivet. What was seen as one of the most sacred places in Jerusalem? Mount Tsion. El, our God and their God, is a God of High Places! Perhaps that is why Melchizedek and Abraham gave him the title El Elyon, or God Most High.
The Mother or Consort (Earth Goddess, immanent, nurturing, intercessor, mediatrix) = Asherah = Ea = Inanna = Isis = Demeter = Mary (virgin AND mother)
The Mother is the weeping Demeter, crying for her daughter, the mother-of-all Gaia, or the wife Hera. Her powers go to support her children or husband. In one form she is also Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. She is any mythological figure devoted to her child.
The Son (Intercessor, messiah, earthly incarnation, human, infant, sacrificial god, male fertility) = Jesus (Yeshua) = Ba’al = Marduk = Dionysus = Adonis = Amun
Dionysos, of course, explicitly combined all these aspects: at once the ecstatic ithyphallic god of orgy, the divine infant Iakchos and the sacrificial god who was torn to pieces to be resurrected. …
The interesting thesis of Mr. J.M. Robertson that a mystery play underlies the story of the Passion seems to receive support from the discovery of some cuneiform tablets relating to the Babylonian god Marduk, whose death and resurrection were dramatically represented long before the Christian era. Marduk, the son of Ea and intercessor with his father for mankind, was tried, condemned to death, slain, buried in a mountain cave, and raised to life. He is also said to have visited “the spirits in prison” (a curious parallel to I Peter iii. 19). Possibly some form of this dramatic mystery was known in certain heterodox circles of Judaism. …
DID YOU KNOW that Jesus made wine out of water like DIONYSOS; walked on water like POSEIDON; was born in a stable like HORUS; was buried in a rock tomb like MITHRAS; was born of a virgin on the eve of the winter solstice like TAMMUZ; was mourned and found by women like ATTIS; performed “medical” miracles like AESCULAPIUS; was arrested, sentenced, chastised. Put to death with another malefactor as the god in the BAAL-MARDUK legend; his mother became “Queen of Heaven” as ASHTORETH- ASTARTE (compare Jeremiah 7:18); he rose from the dead like MITHRA; was a “son of god” like PHARAOH, and all the pagan Roman Caesars etc.
The Daughter (Celestial female consciousness, fertility, intercessor) = Diana = Mary (virgin AND mother) = Anut = Isis = Ishtar = Aphrodite = Persephone
Everyone, who reads the Bible and sees how expressly it declares that, as there is only “one God”, so there is only “one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” (1 Tim 2:5), must marvel . . . . “How it could ever have entered the mind of anyone to bestow on Mary, as is done by the Church of Rome, the character of the ‘Mediatrix’.” But the character ascribed to the Babylonian goddess as Mylitta sufficiently accounts for this. In accordance with this character of Mediatrix, she was called “Aphrodite”. . . . that is, “the wrath-subduer” * . . . . who by her charms could soothe the breast of angry Jove (the god Jupiter), and soften the most rugged spirits of gods or mortal-men. In Athens she was called Amarusia (PAUSANIAS). . . . that is, “The Mother of gracious acceptance”. ** …
The goddess has been interpreted in three aspects: the virgin, the mother, and the crone. The virgin is the youthful girl and young woman, the new moon of potential. The mother is the full moon, pregnant with life. The crone is the wise old woman, the waning moon, who understands death’s mystery. The virgin archetypes are ever popular, for they are pleasing to men. The mother archetype also pleases and serves men, for mothers take care of boys and men and give them children. In Christianity, where the trinity is cast in masculine terms, the goddess survives as Mary, a combination of virgin and mother. But the crone, the most powerful aspect of the feminine deity, has become invisible and unwanted ever since the goddess and her animals were declared profane.
Occasionally, a virgin archetype survives in popular culture. The half-woman/half-fish mermaid is associated with the goddess in her virgin, or maiden, aspect. The mermaid can swim in the realms of the unconscious and live in the watery world of mystery. Fear of the intuitive maiden’s power has resulted in trivializing the mermaid, or making her a temptress who lures men to their death. The maiden is also referred to as the nymph, a free-spirited child. But too often the maiden qualities, which are sexually attractive to men, become distorted and the nymph unfairly becomes the nymphomaniac.