he was calling upon his goddess. If the Christian were to counter that Mary is not a goddess, the pagan would rightly reply that the Christian simply does not understand the meaning of the word. Does it follow then that no artistic work of any kind is legitimate, and that all churches should be the bare, white buildings of Puritanism? In my view, this, too, is an extreme position. Even the Israelite Tent of Meeting had numerous representations of cherubim (on the Ark of the Covenant and woven into