[.. Functionally, and traditionally, the BVM fills the psychic and psychological space occupied by goddesses in pagan religions. A divine entity, an alternate mediator between God and man, an alternate method of salvation, a prayer-hearing and prayer-answering deity who also grants mystical experiences of Herself. The weird vibes surrounding, for example, the "Blue Army of our Lady of Fatima" have the same flavor as those surrounding the deity of Mormonism, another para-Christian cult with an alternate deity. ...]
Nice work.. but you're posting into to a long dark culvert..
The disconnect to pagan Queens of Heaven.. is great..
i.e. Isis and Horus(perpetual infant), Ashteroth(wife of Baal,Molech), Buddist, Hindu, Gnostic, and other mystery religions..
You did put it quite well I think.. short, sweet , to the point..