what cultures have a legend of a virgin birth?
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Deities/sons of deities believed to be products of virgin births:\nJesus Christ (Christian)\nLord Krishna (Hindu)\nLord Buddha (Buddhist)\nAhura Mazda (Zoroastrianism)\nQuetzalcoatl (Aztec/Mesoamerican)\nHorus-Re (also spelled Horus) (Ancient Egyptian)\n\nHope this is helpful!  :-)\n----\nIn regards to rian30's post,\n'One tradition states that Krishna was her (Devaki's) eighth child. Another states that it was a virgin birth: "In the context of myth and religion, the virgin birth is applied to any miraculous conception and birth. In this sense, whether the mother is technically a virgin is of secondary importance to the fact that she conceives and gives birth by some means other than the ordinary....the divine Vishnu himself descended into the womb of Devaki and was born as her son Krishna."'\nFrom:\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jckr1.htm\nSo I supoose there are two versions of Krishna's birth.
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The fable of Adam and Eve and the apple comes from Pandora's Box.  The virgin birth comes from Zeus' amorous adventures such as impregnating someone when he turned himself into a shower of gold.  Those are just a couple of them.  Read some of the myths and you will start to recognize them.
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The youngest person ever to give birth is Lina Medina, a Peruvian girl from the Andean village of Ticrapo. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days.\n\nThe girls father was initially suspected of being the father but authorities were never able to determine who fathered Lina's child.\n\nMedical examination at the time of birth revealed that Lina had the ovaries of a fully mature woman. Her medical history also claimed that she had been having menstrual cycles for years before the birth. She had also developed breasts. Doctors theorized that her abnormal sexual maturity was a result of an extraordinary hormonal disorder of pituitary origin.
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After giving her consent, the Blessed Virgin Mary was miraculously made pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit as described in the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/luke/luke1.htm\n\nWith love in Christ.
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mythological figure created by people to avoid facing facts
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That stuff about the Great Mother is bull... it's not possible that every goddess originates from the Great Mother, which is what every scholar wants to argue.\n\nAnyway, the reason the virgin is connected to childbirth is that, according to the legend, she helped her mother give birth to her twin, Apollo.
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The word "nativity" hails from an old word "nasci", which means "to be born".  That meaning morphed into also meaning, "the place of one's birth" = native.
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Deities/sons of deities believed to be products of virgin births:\nJesus Christ (Christian)\nLord Krishna (Hindu)\nLord Buddha (Buddhist)\nAhura Mazda (Zoroastrianism)\nQuetzalcoatl (Aztec/Mesoamerican)\nHorus-Re (also spelled Horus) (Ancient Egyptian)\n\nHope this is helpful! :-)
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Yep, happened to my cousins sister...she was technically a virgin when she had her first examination for her pregancy.
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Two virgin sisters would like to have children, so they get their father drunk, have sexual intersourse with him, and get pregnant. (Genesis 19:30-36)\n\nAn old king can no longer get an erection, so a beautiful young girl is put to bed with him. But alas! even she can't get a rise out of him. (1 Kings 1:1-4)\n\nA woman pretends to be a prostitute and entices her father-in-law to have intercourse with her. He does, and lo! nine months later she bears twin boys. (Genesis 38:12-30)
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Exactly - so many cultures, both pre and post Christianity include a "flood" story as part of their emic mythology, and explanation for things. Noah's story is just example - clearly borrowed from Babylonian and Sumerian mythologies.\n\nIn addition, had it not been for media, technology, and science, it would seem likely that similar stories would have developed in the major tsunami that occured in south-east Asia, about 1 and a half years ago. Oral traditions developing from chaos, uncertainty, and without explanation all lead to the development of myths to explan the mysterous.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH I... she's a virgin.. ; )
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A virgin is a person who has never had sexual intercourse...
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The Catholic church claims Mary is still a virgin.\n\nBut I think they're just trying to keep God from being charged with rape. No penetration, no rape.
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I don't think that anyone knows, but she was probably young.  I think that the Hebrew word Alma which is used in Isaiah 7:14 means a young woman of mairrageable age.  But of course to say that she would be a young woman does not contradict the fact that she was a virgin also.  Young women in biblical times were assumed to be virgins because fornicators and adulterers were stoned to death.  Mary was both a young woman and a virgin.  Also, in Isaiah 7:14 it says that there would be a sign which means that there would be something unique about the Christ's birth(virgin birth).  Also, it says that He would be called Immanuel which means "God with us".  Jesus is literally God with us.  www.equip.org
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well mythology speaks of adam as the first human on this planet. hence the answer is man. eve was supposed to be fashioned from adam's rib. so probably she came later!
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It is the belief that Mary was conceived without original sin.  It has nothing to do with the virgin conception of Jesus.