Funny story. I was talking to my wife, who is catholic, about this tonight. When I suggested that The Creator does not have a mother, she laughed. She told me that they used to question the nuns about this stuff, and it always ended up with, “it’s a mystery. You cannot question a mystery.”
If eighth graders can get the sisters mixed up...I wonder how much sense the rest of it makes.
As I said earlier, the whole chanting and repetition is right out of meditation training. There is nothing new under the sun.
I also thinks it comes from the need to teach the Un educated masses of people by rote and memorization.
It doesn’t explain the veneration of Mary, but does explain the method.