Anothe gem from this site about the Templars, Mary Magdalene as Goddess.

This finally gives me the source of a quote that I found in some other document months and months ago but forgot about cause I couldn’t locate anything more on it:

The Divine Mother and her Consort/Savior Son is a strong theme in World Goddess Myth, making Virgin Mary/Mary Magdalen a likely composite. As noted on the Virgin page, the title of Virgin was often bestowed upon sexually active Goddesses. Sacred Temple Prostitutes were often called Virgins (D). In addition, children of The Sacred Marriage, a ritual union of a temple priestess and a king willing to die for his people, were often called “virgin born” or “divine children,” just as Christ was. As noted on the Virgin page, it is possible that Mother Mary was dedicated to a Goddess temple when she was a child. Perhaps Mother Mary was a temple priestess, thus making Jesus (or Yeshua) a divine child (E). There is even stronger evidence that Mary Magdalen was a temple priestess, so perhaps this is the true connection between Mother Mary and Mary Magdalen.

There is a bibliography at the bottom of this which indicates what books are referred to by the letters:

(C) Alone of All Her Sex: Myth and Cult of Virgin Mary
(D) The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
(E) The Moon Under Her Feet

Goddammit! I have so much fucking reading that I want to do now from all this stuff. ARGH!