Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
This book argues that the Black Madonna iconographic tradition - most commonly identified as representations of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child - may preserve a far older and largely suppressed sacred feminine archetype: Sarah of Haran and her son Isaac, whose divine miraculous conception in Genesis 21:1 has been systematically overlooked and absorbed into later Marian veneration. Drawing on biblical textual analysis, Mesopotamian religious archaeology, comparative iconography, and patristic theology, this paper reconstructs the symbolic, geographic, and theological chain linking the Moon God Sin’s sacred city of Haran (modern Turkey) to the oldest surviving Black Madonna tradition. It proposes that the ’blackness’ of these iconic figures encodes the lunar darkness symbolism of a pre-Israelite sacred feminine world that Sarah herself inhabited - and that the image was never Mary and Jesus first. It was Sarah and Isaac.
