-Caveat Lector-
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Colleen Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a icon which I bought at St. Josephs - Jesus holding a jewelled
>copy of a book, and he is giving the mojo sign.
>This painting is a very famous painting, done in the Byzentine period.
>I often wondered why jewells would be painted on this book;
Try actually READING the Bible for the answer to this...
>and what the mojo meant then.
'Mojo' is a relatively modern, and western, term...not sure what YOU mean
by it (indeed, I find trying to understand ANYTHING from you), but I
presume you're referring to the traditional church sign of blessing, where
two fingers are extended...
This is a very old and traditional sign of blessing...
>Some call this the sign of the devil;
I've neve heard it referred to as such...I HAVE heard of it as warding off
the 'evil eye', and indeed many people of Italian extraction where
necklaces with this sign as a pendant...
>Please forgive misspelled words. i aint what I used to be.
If you ever were...
>There was a jewelled copy of the Rubyait aboard the Titanic, that must
>have been worth a fortune; have never been able to find out how old this
>book was; but, its design looked very similar to the book held in the
>painting.
It was very common for books to have jeweled covers, prior to the
invention of the printing press, as the creation of a book was such a
labor-intensive project that it made the cost of each book prohibitive,
and in the league with precious gems...
June
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