Subject: Re: IOU: Hand symbolism
inmanvk@sas.upenn.edu
Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 18:37:12 EDT
I have been disintrestedly following this, but have a question. When you say two fingers, do you mean two fingers not counting the thumb? Is the thumb bent or extended? Two fingers and an extended thumb represent 'three' in many European countries doesn't it? You are talking about a distinctive 2 made of only two fingers and no extended thumb aren't you? --V. K. Inman Quoting Horace Jeffery Hodges <jefferyhodges@yahoo.com>: > Perhaps this might lead you somewhere in your search. > > Jeffery Hodges > > ------------------------------------------------------ > http://rosariesforourlady.com/st.athanasius/DivineLiturgy.htm > > BYZANTINE SIGN OF THE CROSS > > Blessing oneself with two fingers brought to the thumb > represents the Trinity. The last two fingers held to > the palm represent the two natures of Jesus--God and > man. For the first 1,200 years of the Church, in > making the Sign of the Cross, the hand was typically > brought from the right to the left shoulder. In the > East this is still the practice, to signify Christ > enthroned at the right hand of the Father. According > to tradition and in the words of Pope Innocent III > (1198-1216), The Sign of the Cross is made with three > fingers because it is impressed upon us in the name of > the Holy Trinity. From the forehead we pass to the > breast, then from the right to the left. (Quoted in > Gasparri: Catholic Catechism, p. 248). > ------------------------------------------------------ > > ===== > University Degrees: > > Ph.D., History, U.C. Berkeley > (Doctoral Thesis: "Food as Synecdoche in John's Gospel and Gnostic Texts") > M.A., History of Science, U.C. Berkeley > B.A., English Language and Literature, Baylor University > > Email Address: > > jefferyhodges@yahoo.com > > Office Address: > > Assistant Professor Horace Jeffery Hodges > Department of English Language and Literature > Korea University > 136-701 Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu > Seoul > South Korea > > Home Address: > > Dr. Sun-Ae Hwang and Dr. Horace Jeffery Hodges > Seo-Dong 125-2 > Shin-Dong-A, Apt. 102-709 > 447-710 Kyunggido, Osan-City > South Korea >
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