The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c11.77.4

v1.c11.77.4

Peter's, are to be seen (in Augsburg, as large as life) a black virgin and a black child".³⁴ In all this and in many other respects, there is a close analogy between the conception of Umā, the mother of the universe, and that of the Egyptian and of Grecian goddesses, as also that of the Gnostics, the Rosicrucians, Mariolaters and other mystics, whose influence on Christianity is still manifest in the traces they have left on the Roman Church; and they lead to the inference that there has been an interchange of ideas on the subject at an early period.