Female Imagery

Note also such Scriptures as:

Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Revelation 12:1-2, 5-6 A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth. . . . She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne. The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.