But if we’re the least bit uncomfortable about the difference, we’re told it’s only because of our “Western sensibilities”. Okay then.
Here’s a compilation of Marian apparitions/images of popular devotion, and the places where Mama Mary appeared/the image originated… as we can see, not always “the West”.
Top row, from left:
Our Lady of Altagracia, Dominican Republic
Bottom row, from left:
and the latest… “Our Lady of the Amazon” plus one other figure some commenters have presumed to be St. Elizabeth
The Visitation by Geronimo Antonio de Ezquerra
I’ve seen the argument that we are just not being “open-minded enough”. Funny though. I thought the goal was evangelization. So my question is… Are we Christianizing pagans? Or are they paganizing us?
Pachamama is closer to Gaia, NOT Mama Mary. Mama Mary is a CREATURE, a CREATION of God. Mama Mary is NOT Mother Nature or Mother Earth. And we worship God, not Mama Mary.
More:
Virgin Mary/Pachamama Syncretism: The Divine Feminine in Early-Colonial Copacabana
Why That Naked Native Lady Statue in the Vatican Ain’t Catholic
Mama Mary, ora pro nobis.
Edit 10/19/19:
Came across this post from Pedro Gabriel over at Where Peter Is. Watching the video I am inclined to change my opinion re the intentions of Amazon natives, even though I still find many aspects of the Synod at least mildly disturbing… and I don’t fully trust REPAM, based on previous research into /experience with international Catholic (sometimes “Catholic”) orgs … but I will leave these things to the Holy Spirit. As an Internet commenter pointed out, we are not there (the Amazon, not Rome), and we don’t know exactly what’s going on. I find the arguments (from both sides) re finding “evidence” online pointless; confirmation bias is a thing, and I will readily admit to being guilty myself… but no matter. God is still in charge. I will wait for fruits before I evaluate further.
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