Songs of Holy Marry

7. This is quite the interesting song. It tells the story of an abbess (a nun who leads other nuns) who has sex with her servant and gets pregnant. Nuns, especially those who are high up and are meant to set an example, are not allowed to have get married or have sex. In fact, because the sex is out of wedlock it is doubly a sin. She is very loyal to the virgin Mary though so when she gets in trouble with the arch bishop, she prays and the virgin Mary essentially aborts her child and send it to France so the abbess will not get punished. I suppose the theme of this is that as long as you are loyal to the virgin Mary, she will help you out in tough situations, even if you're at fault. Perhaps because Marry is the moderator between God, and humans, she understands that humans are imperfect? It is very interesting how Mary really does essentially abort this child, and although it is supposedly still living, Mary just makes the "problem" go away. It is kind of crazy that Mary values loyalty more then she values virtue. This song kind of makes it seem like you can get away with almost anything as long as you are loyal to Mary.

26. This is the story of how a man cheats on his wife, so the devil tricks him into cutting his own penis off and killing him self only to end up in hell. Because the man is loyal to Mary, she sees this punishment as too much. She lets the man live, but does not give his penis back. The theme of this song, or moral rather, teaches the reader the dangers of cheating on your spouse, and the sin of sex out of wedlock. It is interesting how he does get saved in a sense because of his loyalty to Mary, yet he is still punished. When a lead nun got pregnant from sex in the previous song, Mary took all of her problems away with no punishment at all. Could this be because she was a women and this is a man? Is that why he doesn't get away scott free? They committed a very, very similar sins, why are they not treated as equals? The fact that the women was a nun is not a reason for Mary to take favor over her. In fact it makes her sin even worse. There seems to be some sexism going on here. In the previously mentioned song the nuns sex with her servant was essentially blamed on the devil. Couldn't the devil make the man cheat as well or are men just pig, and women always innocent? Is the penis seen as the devil inside of the man and that's why it was removed? It is also interesting that there is a sentence that essentially attributes these punishments, not to the action of cheating it self, but to the absence of going to confession after committing the sin. Can anyone do anything and just have a clean slate from going to confession right away?