Marilyn Monroe was the American version of the great mother goddess—our Diana, Astarte, Ishtar, Isis. But for the pagan, the Mother Goddess stood not only for sex, but also for life, fertility, prosperity, and all things abundant. Being an American and living on the precipice of the sexual revolution, Marilyn was the icon and image of only one half of that mystery… (essay by Dwight Longenecker)

Source: Marilyn Monroe and the Mother Goddess ~ The Imaginative Conservative

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