Voodoo and Babylonian Origins of The Black Madonna

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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.