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[tree_and_leaf]

This is too much fun: the bus slogan generator







And one for Bella:

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[tree_and_leaf]

Of course. It's a natural Trinitarian symbol! *ducks*

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Yes, but which is the bushead, which the word, and which the speaking of the word...

[tree_and_leaf]

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.)

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

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?

[tree_and_leaf]

... I must admit, I have no idea.