[Dr. Eckleburg]

How do you know they got it right?

Obviously many of them didn't. They were dealing with heresies coming from all sides, and so some of them incorporated the female pagan rituals into these inflated descriptions of Mary.

Isis and Cybele became Mary.

"CULT OF THE VIRGIN MARY
PHYSCOLOGICAL ORIGINS"
by Michael Carroll

[wmfights]

"CULT OF THE VIRGIN MARY PHYSCOLOGICAL ORIGINS" by Michael Carroll

That was a very good book to read. I highly recommend it, FWIW.