The Black Madonna

Who is the Black Madonna? What does she represent? What does the MOther of Oracles have to say about the origins and purpose of the Black Madonna? _____________________ Music used in this episode: "Past the Edge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photo: Black Madonna at the Basilica of Blessed Virgin Mary, Marija Bistrica, Croatia  licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported ___________________ Reference: Scarre, C. (2011). Monumentality. In T. Insoll (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion (pp. 9–23). Oxford University Press. ‌