The worship of the Mother Goddess was popular all over the world since ancient times, and is popular today.

The Mother Goddess was usually associated with fertility.

Different cultures worshiped her in different ways, attributing to her aspects similar to their own.

For example, the black people would worship the black Mother Goddess, and the Egyptian people would give her their own religious attributes, and so did Hindus.

In Africa, the Divine Mother is worshiped in many aspects. We find the same to be the case in India. Ancient Greece, Egypt, and Babylon – the inhabitants there also had their own mother goddesses.

In Catholicism, we find Mother Mary representing different aspects of the Mother Goddess. In Hinduism, one deity manifesting as many is a very usual trait. The idols of Catholicism representing the Virgin Mary in actuality represent the Mother Goddess of pagans.

The Mother Goddess of ancient Sumer was Inanna. Her Babylonian equivalent was Ishtar. She was the goddess of love, beauty, sexual desire, wisdom, war, and fertility.

We find a similar representative of this goddess in Haiti voodoo religion too, who was called Ezili Dantor.

Haitian slaves who were forced to convert to Catholicism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries continued to worship their voodoo gods under the disguise of the worship of Catholic saints and the Virgin Mary.

They found it easy to worship the Black Madonna because they, I assume, recognized her to be their own deity – even the facial scratches attested to it.

Ezili Dantor, the Black Madonna’s equivalent, was a fierce goddess who was a patron of homosexuals, single mothers, abused women, and children.

She was the goddess of passion, sex, and war and is similar to the Hindu goddess Kali.

People who are used to invoking her report that she, like Kali, needs blood sacrifices to do one’s bidding.

She is described as being fond of knives. This particular deity belongs to the family of water spirits.

She has seven children, as some sources suggest. One of the children is told to be her husband, which is similar to the Tammuz and Semiramis story.

She can be fierce, wild, aggressive, and difficult to control. She is independent and strong.

Here’s a popular song in her honor:

These two sisters could not stand each other.

There was strong jealousy between them. They both were in love with Ogou Lwa.

They fought over this man and during the battle Ezili Dantor took her dagger which she always carried with her and stabbed Freda in the heart.

That’s, I assume, where we get the Weeping Mary idol from – the stabbed heart was the sign of Ezili Freda.

Freda, in turn, removed the dagger and cut Ezili Dantor’s face, thus scarring her. Thus, you can see the scars on the Santa Barbara Africana image (the right image below), which was painted from the inspiration of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa painting shown below (the left image).

I don’t know if the scratches on the Black Madonna painting indeed point to her voodoo origins, since the official story is different, but this particular image of Madonna indeed looks like that of a fierce tribal warrioress.

This particular spirit, Ezili Dantor, was conjured up in a voodoo ritual carried out by Haitian slaves in 1791.

A black pig was sacrificed to evoke her and drunk by the ritual participants.

Some sources suggest that during this ritual, voodoo priests also made a deal with the devil by writing the contract with pig’s blood in which they dedicated themselves and Haiti to him for 200 years in return for his protection.

When the spirit of Ezili Dantor was conjured up and possessed the voodoo high priestess Marinette, she ordered to kill the French oppressors. This caused the slave revolution.

Her own people cut out her tongue, as they were afraid of her disclosing voodoo secrets if she was caught by the French. She was eventually burnt up alive. On January 1, 1804, the nation of Haiti was born.

They attend the pilgrimage to Les Saintes Maries in France and other related ceremonies elsewhere honoring black female divinities.

They even worship the Black Mother in the same way that they do back in India – they give offerings to her, and, during festivals, they take their idol into the sea just like the Hindus of India do for their idols (they immerse them into the Ganga river, but now it’s banned).

The North Indians who migrated to Europe and now are called gypsies or Roma people worship their warrior goddess Parvati, as they did when they were in their home country.

Parvati is considered to be the Mother of the Universe. All the other goddesses are sometimes told to represent Parvati’s aspects. For example, her fierce aspect is Kali and her demon-killing form is Durga. Gypsies consider her to be their protectress.

Gypsies simply took their Hindu religion with them into exile, and now worship the same idol they worshiped in their country under the disguise of Catholicism.

The same has been done in Brazil and Cuba to preserve the worship of African ocean spirits such as Yemaya.

These ocean spirits have been blended with the Catholic figure of the Virgin Mary and are now represented by her Our Lady of Regla aspect.

So that is quite funny. Catholicism is all about the worship of pagan deities under the pretense of the Christian religion, and then the converted pagans continue worshiping the same spirits they did in the past. Some of them, I assume, recognize their own worshiped idols in the idols of Catholics, so the transition to another religion becomes almost non-existent.

So these two gods (together with their many aspects and manifestations) are the gods of fertility, sex, and war.

That’s what people worship today when they watch violent movies with sexual content and when they pay money to attend music concerts with demonically-dressed performers.

The same gods are worshiped to this day, though the way they are worshiped has been made more subtle. Children and animals are still sacrificed to these spirits, as it always was the case.