RIGHT about now you might be saying to yourself, “My poor eyes. What in the world did I just scroll past? Think about the children!” That was my first reaction when digging up this memory capsule as well. They are all attributed to Miryam of Migdal, aka Mary Magdalene and she’s…. hairy. It’s not like we’re dealing with one artist either. Picture after picture, carving after carving, and to the point that it’s practically a genre unto itself—a genre which people today refer to as ‘Hairy Marry.’ But then look closer. The hair isn’t simply flowing from her head down to her toes. Well, sometimes it is, but that is not the usual case. No, Hairy Mary is a hairy creature. There isn’t a razor on earth that could shine those legs.
ACTUALLY, that’s not entirely true. Not every Hairy Mary depiction can be attributed to Miryam of Migdal. A case of mistaken identity is sometimes at play, and as I intend to show, there is another. It took me nearly three years to figure that out, and this is the illustration that finally managed to tip me off. You’re looking at it. Tell me what you see. Keep looking. If that is Mary Magdalene in the middle, aka Hairy Mary, then who is the woman staring at her, stage left? She’s holding an alabaster jar, as in Mary Magdalene and the Alabaster Jar. Some of you will tell me it’s evidence that Miryam of Migdal and the Woman with the Alabaster Jar is a composite of two separate women, and that I am the one confusing them. That’s what I thought might be at play as well.
But then, look again at what Hairy Mary is carrying. Is that a rock? Difficult to tell. All four women are holding a MacGuffin which is deemed necessary to the plot and the motivation of their characters. For example, the woman to the right of Hairy Mary is slaying a dragon with a crucifix lance. That’s bad ass. I did a little digging and discovered that Margaret of Antioch did the very deed. She was a Reptilian hunter. Again, bad ass. As a feminine duality of Saint George, she is also known as Margaret the Virgin, indicating that another of the 144,000 is potentially being identified. She was also said to have been martyred in 304 at the age of 15. To her right, the woman holding the palm branch is very likely Agnes of Rome, another virgin. I checked. After refusing to deny Christ, Agnes was dragged naked through the streets to a brothel, then tried and sentenced to death, again in the whereabouts of 304. The palm branch signifies her martyrdom.
If you’d like to read the full report, and there’s a lot to it, you can read it for yourself in the following PDF.