MAGDALENE DESIGNS by Judith Laura
Scholars agree that the portrayal of Mary Magdalene as a repentent prostitute is historically inaccurate and based on confusing and combining several different characters in the Christian testament. Judith Laura's Mary Magdalene art is based on four different current interpretations:
(1) The historical theory that Mary Magdalene was a disciple/apostle; she had great intellectual and spiritual understanding and was the disciple with the closest relationship to Jesus, but this relationship wasn't sexual.
(2) The historical theory that Jesus was her husband, that they had at least one child, and that she and the child(ren) eventually went to France.
(3) The mythological theory that she and Jesus were involved in a hieros gamos, or sacred marriage.
(4) The metaphysical belief of some current gnostic groups who worship Mary Magdalene as Jesus' female counterpart.
The symbols in Judith's Magdalene art include: a cup/grail inscribed with her name in Aramaic, the language she spoke; a downward pointing triangle, a female symbol; a crown/halo above her head, embedded with 13 (the number of lunar months) egg-shaped rubies. (The egg is a symbol long associated with Magdalene as a symbol of life and/or resurrection.) The entire figure of Magdalene is composed of many oval and triangular shapes. How many can you find?
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