Pre-Basque Phonology

[Stanley Friesen]

At 10:05 PM 9/30/99 +0200, Eduard Selleslagh wrote:
>The Virgin Mary's role in (Catholic) Christianity has greatly increased over
>the centuries, especially in the 19th c., and it looks to me (no offense
>intended to people's religious convictions) that this is a consequence of the
>psychological gap left by banning Mari.

This may certainly have been part of it.  However, a large part of the
modern Marian treatment in Catholic Christianity goes back to the
assimilation of the Romano-Egyptian worship of Isis.  (Of course, if it
happened once it could happen more often, and we could have a major
composite here).

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