Is traditional Christian veneration of Mother Mary based on Paganism?

[Rainbow Mage]

Well is it?

Aset and Heru-sa-Aset

Mary and Jesus

 

[dogsgod]

Isis and Horus mosaic from The House of Dionysus

Eirene the goddess of peace holding her son Ploutos

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Wow, I never saw some of those before

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Let's see, I can find one of the Kemetic Holy Family (Osiris, Isis, and Horus)

Here's a good one

The Christian Holy Family

 

[dogsgod]

Diana of Ephesus shrine with blessing hands

Virgin Mary shrine with blessing hands

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Horus with his Staff

Jesus with his Staff

 

[Guitar's Cry]

Certainly the parent/child image is a powerful and primal one for humans of all cultures.

 

[dogsgod]

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Tammuz

Jesus

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Dionysus

Jesus

 

[Azakel]

I lot of the art of Jesus and stuff came from a culture a lot of the older art came from. It's not surprising that one would see similarities between them being that culture art and images are past down. People connect better with stuff they already know so the art create new stuff after the old. Doesn't really mean Christianity had anything to do with it.
Look at it like this, you can find a lot of art and stuff in Judaism that looks like and comes from Sumerian culture and a lot of stuff with in Islam is like that from the pre-Islam religions of the Middle East.