The term is derived from 'i-star' or 'eye star' and it was the chief god (goddess) of Babylon.
It was called 'Ma-r-i' which translates as 'mother's powerful eye' and its beauty was such that it contained the glorious colours of the rainbow in perpetually moving circles of light.
This same phenomena can be seen by holding a piece of cardboard with a small hole towards the early morning sun.
It evoked sounds related to the one's we still use in our language.
This image was so appealing that men wanted to marry (mary) it.
In the early rays of dawn when the image appears there is central to it the right-angled cross.
This then was the way men devised that they could rise with the sun at dawn as her 'mate'.
This term derived from 'Ma-t' or 'mother's cross' and it is the origin of the prayer mats still used in some churches, mosques and elsewhere.
Babylon was built and occupied by the Amors.
They were vicious, cruel, dominating and they enslaved their captives to build a great empire.
Their history is partly known as the next city of their recreation was Mari and then Ninevah.
They were Islamic and sun worshipers.
Then they invaded Italy and built Roma (reverse Amor) before conquering most of Europe, parts of Africa and elsewhere.
Their ways never changed and their dedication to the Mother God of their faith stayed as a strong as ever.
They were non-spiritual, murderous and their conquests fill the history books still.
One of their number was Constantine.
He established the Catholic Church based on the same principles as the Babylonian religion.
He built the first Christian churches and he invented Jesus Christ, verified in Revelation 13:13-18.
He forced everyone to worship the image he created or be killed and his number, in the Assyrian alphabet, adds up to 666.
He also put Mari into the religion as the Mother of God and Revelation 17 declares her as Babylon the Great.
Following him soon after was Jerome who was appointed by the Vatican to produce a text for the churches to work by and to format the religion.
He produced the New Testament based on the writings from around the empire.
They included the story of Chrishna (Krishna) the third person of the Vedic Trinity upon whom he modelled Christ.
There were no Christians prior to Constantine except for the followers of Chrishna.
Jerome took the order of mass, festivals, calendar, instruments, costumes and laws from the Imperial Islamic religion and gave them to the church to work by.