ABSTRACT

The mystery of the Annunciation, like the devotion of Antigone, are two moments that must be examined in order to interpret our tradition. Indeed, this "mystery" announces itself once a particular path has been forgotten, the path of an amorous knowledge which is as spiritual as it is carnal. Privileging the garment conceals a place of the spiritual to be for the feminine. In fact, endeavoring to be pretty in appearance through the use of artifice means, for woman, renouncing the spirituality of her skin, a spirituality which is more human and mental than man's. Renouncing love, including carnal love, for "God", would lose its meaning since amorous relations would be transformed into weddings and festivals, both spiritual and divine. The fecundity between man and woman would not be lived primarily as a physical generation, but as a spiritual one.