What a complex web of symbolism it is. There is the whole iconography around Mary and the morning star, the colors associated with Mary and how they tie back to Isis and Osiris and the old stories of dismembered gods reviving the earth. The connection between Easter and the idea of atonement, particularly Aquinas' view (I was reminded of at the dinner table this evening) of the inability of man to atone for sins on the grounds that man sinned against God, and man and God are not morally commensurate beings; in the same way (so Aquinas argues) that commoner and aristocrat are not commensurate beings. A commoner could not repair an offense against an aristocrat, some other aristocrat would have to do it for him.
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