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Hallowed Entries About Dark Culture & Thought, the Fantastic and the Supernatural (from an Orthodox Christian Perspective)

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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

A Once Popular Icon of Fear and Mortality

In Russian iconography during the 17th and 18th century there was icon to remind Christians that they are mortal beings and taught them ...

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Christ Antiphonetes: The Icon That Allegedly Could Foretell the Future

Christ Antiphonetes, c. 1350 somewhere in Greece, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita (1028–50) reportedly...

Thursday, November 15, 2018

A Byzantine Nativity Icon that Depicts a Belief in Witchcraft and the Evil Eye

The fresco above, dated to 1289 from the church known as Omorphi Ekklesia on the island of Aegina, might appear upon first glance to be a s...

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