Have you ever seen what putty can do to a set of gears? Anyway, I wasn't trying to refute what you were saying; I just found a little amusing in the context of this discussion that there would be a blond-haired Black Madonna. But then, I probably have a peculiar sense of humour ...


This site, also among those others, associates the Black Madonnas with the persistence of the Mother Goddess cult:

"The Mother goddess was given a black face as Demeter, goddess of fertility, in the December rites and as the Black Madonna she was thus related to the fertility and Mystery cults. Her worship was originally pagan and has been brought into Christianity due to a need for the support of the Mother. This arose in a celebration of femininity that to some extent counterbalances the ascetic, even misogynistic tendencies in the early Christian religion."