It is incredibly intetesting what you have just said.From my theological point of view, and studies, Catholicism presents Mary as an archetype of the prototype human being. In my studies of the Hebrew text of the early chapters in Genesis, ha-adam possesses a female body, like Mary, and is created already pregnant with the first male, the Messiah, such that if not for Genesis 2:21, where the original plan is aborted, Messiah would be, what Paul (in Colossians chapter one) tells us he is: the firstborn of creation.
Catholicism brilliantly, if not yet fully consciously, realizes that Mary is a latter day ha-adam. Mary is what Adam was until Genesis 2:21: a virgin androgyne whereby the female aspect is the outer body, and the male aspect is the pre-fertilized ovum created simultaneous to the outer body.
John
I guess it is also connected to the fact that when Eve is created, she is called isha ...from ish (male)...and it is a very interesting term because even in the Vulgate she is not called mulier (woman) but virago from vir (male).
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