The woman clothed with Sun: a review of the Apocalypse

Abstract

This article explores a reinterpretation of the Apocalypse that
distances itself from the patriarchal conception of the end of
the world as a catastrophic and vengeful event. Focusing on
the image of the Woman Clothed with Sun, on its relationship
with the myths of other pre-patriarchal goddesses and on the
appearance, consolidation and interpretation of its iconography
and attributes, the text proposes a journey through the female
genealogy of the said image until arriving at the image of Mary
as the Immaculate Conception. Through this journey we will see
how the image of the Woman clothed with Sun evokes the return
of the imaginary of the celestial goddesses which, marking a
cosmic rebirth that connects us again to the essence of life,
beauty and love, signals to us the end of the patriarchy, bringing
with it the beginning of the era of the feeling of the inner self
and of female symbolic.