evil eye that could draw a person caught in the vampire’s gaze into the grave. Dmitrij Zelenin has traced the emergence of theeretikvampire from the fight conducted by the Orthodox against the medieval religious sectarians. Sectarians were designatedinovercy(i.e., persons who adhere to a ...
But the world is a messed-up place. Such conflicts all over – not just in the Middle East, but between Democrats and Republicans in the USA, ethnic groups in many countries in Africa, Muslims and Hindus in India, Europeans and refugees in Europe, and the list goes on. We are a fract...
Orthodox or conservative old fashion ideas are no-no in their dictionary. Change with the ever-changing Gemini and do not flow against the current . CANCER: DO’S Try to adapt yourself with the changing moods of the Cancer. At one moment they may be laughing and enjoying and in ...
Joe Biden will be in the proximity of these places related to “Mary’s immaculate conception” on a notable day in the Russian Orthodox Church calendar (from Onna’s notes)… • The Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary (Wikipedia) is a liturgical holiday celebrated on Julian Decembe...
Her mother was Jewish, but from a family of sufficient wealth and distance from the Orthodox faith to be considered acceptable in court society. After the end of World War One and the collapse of the Hapsburg dynasty, however, Count Kemengi found himself land rich and cash poor and put ...
One of the greatest Orthodox theologians of the last century, Sergius Bulgakov, insisted on the indispensable role of humanity in the Incarnation: Christ did not bring His human nature down from heaven, and He did not create it anew from the earth; rather, He took it from “the most pure...
To describe Sebastian Lelio’s “Disobedience” as “sexy” is in some ways an injustice. While the film notably features girl-on-girl sex, the subject matter is decidedly unsexy, telling the story of a lesbian who was ostracized from the Orthodox Jewish community for her lifestyle a...
Her mother was Jewish, but from a family of sufficient wealth and distance from the Orthodox faith to be considered acceptable in court society. After the end of World War One and the collapse of the Hapsburg dynasty, however, Count Kemengi found himself land rich and cash poor and put ...
“The Eye in Which I See God Is the Same Eye in Which God Sees Me” The Heart of the Gnostic Is like a Mirror in Which the Microcosmic Form of the Divine Self Is Reflected Bill Viola and the Abyssal Look of the Pupil of the Eye Blackness, the Repository of the Secret or Mystery ...
in the 1960–1980s, in the Russian North and in the Carpathian region in the 1990s. It shows that the relationship between the living and the dead in folk beliefs does not fit comfortably within the widespread notion of an “ancestor cult”. It argues that the dead are both venerated and...