This is phase two - the establishment of the bus-worshipping cult as the religion of the internet. You've noticed that three come along at once, I see...
Ah, you see, you can't tell. It's like the Old Testament Trinity icon, where all three Persons look the same (and vaguely feminine, to my eyes, but I'm fairly sure that's just differences in cultural and artistic convention rather than a theological statement.)
I think that at the time that icon was painted it was normal for Russian men to have beards, a fashion I think shared with the Turkic successors of the Mongols from whose domination they were just emerging... so beardlessness could symbolise otherworldliness and a non-warrior, non-sexual state, though that's rather obvious really
How long has it been customary for Orthodox priests to be bearded, I wonder?
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Date: 2009-01-31 10:42 pm (UTC)How long has it been customary for Orthodox priests to be bearded, I wonder?
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Date: 2009-01-31 12:06 pm (UTC)Let the Bus be with you!
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Date: 2009-01-31 10:33 pm (UTC)The first is my favorite, though the last made me laugh out loud.
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