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Yahoshua’s mother, Myriam, as a ‘temple maiden’ MYRIAM in Hebrew means, “to be filled, full and fruitful”. Earlier in the Hebrew Scriptures, Miryam was the sister of Moshe (Moses). The origin of Myriam is Meri-Mu, Meri the mother. Meri is ancient Egyptian and it means “beloved.” It was a feminine deity of the Nile and also another title for Aset/Isis. The dual form of Meri as feminine deity of the Nile, south and north, is Meri-Ras and Meri-Mehi. Meri-Mehi also means “to be filled, fulfilled,” – from the Pyramid of Pepi I, ll. 565ff. Merit-Aten/Meryt-Aten/Meryet-Aten (14thcentury BCE) was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 18th dynasty, who held the position of Great Royal Wife to Pharaoh Smenkhkare, who may have been a brother or son of Akhen-Aten. Her name means “She who is beloved of Aten” – J. Tyldesley, “Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt,” 2006, page 136-137. Throughout Yahoshua’s life, he was surrounded by women called “Myriam” – his mother, her sister and Myriam from Magdala (“Myriam of MagdalEber,” Genesis 35:21). In the Gnostic Gospel of Philip, the name ‘Myriam’ is specifically noted as a title. “There were three who always walked with the Lord: Myriam his mother and her sister and Magdalene, the one who was called his companion. His sister and his mother and his companion were each a Mary.” This passage reveals much about these women and their relationships to Yahoshua. These women, “always walked with the Lord,” “had a favoured position,” and they “were each a Myriam.” Herod Antipas was married to Mariamme, a priestess of the triple feminine deity Mari-Anna-Ishtar, whose triple-towered temple was called “Magdala.” Myriam was a “temple maiden” and her name was a Hebrew title for temple priestess! Temple maidens In the Hebrew Scriptures, the word “kedeshah” (temple, divine or sacred woman) was from the root “q-d-sh” meaning “holy” or “set apart.” According to Adam Clarke’s Commentary on Genesis 38:21, “kedeshah” is “a holy or consecrated person,”and this is from “kadash.” This means “to make holy, or to consecrate for religious purposes.” ‘Qedesha’ was also the Canaanite name for their fertility deity and a title for either the feminine cosmic power called Astarte or Asherah (the Queen of Heaven, Mother Divine and the consort of El/YHVH according to Jeremiah 7:17-18 and 44:17). This was adapted from ancient Egypt’s Aset/Isis. Hebrews also adopted the concept of a “temple maidens” from Babylonians during their exile, where the Ishtar priestesses conducted fertility rites, prophesied and performed elaborate rituals in the temples throughout Babylon (which means “Gateway of the Divinities”). The purpose of “temple maidens” was to conceive, give birth and raise children in a manner to advance the royal and priestly lineages. Priests and their sons also lay with women coming to the Temple (I Samuel 1:22). According to James Still, ‘The Virgin Birth and Childhood Mysteries of Jesus,’ upon their return to Palestine, Hebrews of the Babylonian captivity brought back wondrous tales of the temple priestesses and their sexual relationships with the men who visited them. The role of the Ishtar priestess was to act as both mother to the prospective man’s child and minister to the child’s divine needs. The Hebrews called the children of these priestesses “bathur,” which meant literally “virgin-born” as in those children who were born of the holy priestesses of the temple. The Hellenic world called these “bathur” rituals “parthenioi.” Those involved in this practice were sworn to secrecy. As discussed earlier about Luke 1:38, Myriam was a ‘kedeshah,’ which literally means, “consecrated female” or “temple maiden.” Related to the term is ‘kedushah’ a fundamental concept of Judaism and it means holiness. The basic meaning is separation from the “general” and dedication to the “particular,” as in the “Kiddushin,” betrothal, of a “kallah” (bride) to her “chasan” (groom). This “consecrated female” is the concept of nuns within the Roman Catholic Church up to this day although they are celibate. They are considered as “consecrated” females within the Church and assist the clergy in the Church. Like married women, they take vows of loyalty and put on rings as if they are married. In ancient Egypt, priests served as sexual surrogates on behalf of the Divine to beget all the Pharaohs and those belonging to the priesthood who were then considered as divine. This was part of a ritual inherited by Essenes, in order to safely propagate the royal bloodline of King David and the hereditary priestly line. Deductively, Yahoshua was to be the embodiment of the “hieros-gamic” union between the “earthly vicar” of the Divine, the Chief Priest, and a consecrated young woman (Matthew 1:18-23, Luke 1:26-37). A young woman, Myriam, was chosen to bear a son of a member of the priestly bloodline. In this particular case a priest of the Temple would have to provide her with a child. Her ‘overseer’ Yosef was kindly assured that the process had received divine “sanction.” This being considered a divine ritual by the Essenes, the question of adultery never did arise. Email feedback at shingaindoro@gmail.com or twitter@shingaiRndoro. A gallery of his previous articles is found at www.sundaymail.co.zw///?author=266. Comment on twitter using, #ChiselDebris and #ImproveHumanity