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I have done as you suggested, but the result of doing so will be disappointing.

I am only further convinced of Mary’s queenship and further grateful to God for having revealed to us through His Church, the true Queen of Heaven by revealing to us the true King of Kings, Jesus.

The OT tale are about HUMANS who sought to supplant God and take for themselves the worship and power that belongs to Him alone.

That was not Mary.

Semiramis was a woman of ill repute.

Mary was not.

Semiramis used first her husband and then her son for her own glory.

Mary did not.

Mary was a girl of humility and devotion to God, whom God chose to bear His Son.

Semiramis was not.

The contrasts are too numerous to list here.

There is no way in which the two women are alike and to use Semiramis as a comparison to the Catholic understanding of Mary is inauthentic.

Because God is the one, true God and Mary is the one true mother of Jesus. The authentic mother of the authentic King.

What protestants such as Hilsop and “you know who” seek to suggest with the comparison of the two women denies that

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, light from light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary
and became truly human.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

I see more and more why the Marian doctrines are so important in relation to our understanding of who and what Jesus is and how the leaders of the Church were led to define them.