Would’ve been a great episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
I think I’ve been to this particular monastery. I believe it is Xenophontos. Quite haunting.
I remember being there and having chills go down my spine as a monk read us Ecclesiastes in Greek:
> 1 The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
> 2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
> 3 What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?
> 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
> 5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
> 6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
> 7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
> 8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
> 9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
> 10 Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
> 11 No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.
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Plot-twist: they were all alive before he came there
Now he just needs to start throwing flames and we have a new LoL character.
Something to look forward to…..
weak we have a temple made out of bones here in czechia acualy multiple
Takes strength to be able to do/accept this as part of daily routine.
‘Yes, my son, soon your skull shall join my collection.’
Memento Mori.
Mount Athos. Is it that place where women or female animals are not allowed to get in? Edit: All female animals with the exception of hens (eggs) and female cats (rodents).
Wait until people find out the the Serbs painted Jesus with a sword. Orthodox Christianity is the best Christianity.
i an electrician used to work at a greek orthodox monastery around here. i was weirdes out by them but they really chill tbh
Looks like a Dark Souls NPC
Soooo….they decapitate their dead monks and then do what exactly to the heads to get the skulls cleanly out?
He looks like he us about to cast some spells
This is common for some secluded monastries of the orthodox world.Some well known monks or patriarchs get to lie in the courtyard while others get this.
Far worse than this are the ottoman skull towers that i saw.
Cool!
This picture gives me some 40k chills
Can’t fool me, he is a necromancer with good PR departament.
this man’s fingers are enormous.
Kinda related interesting fact: Jews at the time, including Jesus and many christians long after held the belief that there is no seperation of soul and body. You are completely dead until the day of resurection when your physical body is made alive again and you are judged by god. The belief that the soul is somehow seperate from the body developed later and was inspired by ancient Greek philosophers, whom also gave us our common depiction of Jesus in a white robe and with a beard.
This is the closest we are going to get to the Predator skull trophy room
Metal af
Uhmmm so who’s responsible for fetching the skull once the flesh rots away? Or, do they do it some other way?
r/accidentalrenaissance
Their headless bodies roam the monastery after midnight.
Hm. You seem to find coin pretty charming yourself.
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Would’ve been a great episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
I think I’ve been to this particular monastery. I believe it is Xenophontos. Quite haunting.
I remember being there and having chills go down my spine as a monk read us Ecclesiastes in Greek:
> 1 The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
> 2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
> 3 What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?
> 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
> 5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
> 6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
> 7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
> 8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
> 9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
> 10 Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
> 11 No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.
[deleted]
Plot-twist: they were all alive before he came there
Now he just needs to start throwing flames and we have a new LoL character.
Something to look forward to…..
weak we have a temple made out of bones here in czechia acualy multiple
Takes strength to be able to do/accept this as part of daily routine.
‘Yes, my son, soon your skull shall join my collection.’
Memento Mori.
Mount Athos. Is it that place where women or female animals are not allowed to get in? Edit: All female animals with the exception of hens (eggs) and female cats (rodents).
Wait until people find out the the Serbs painted Jesus with a sword. Orthodox Christianity is the best Christianity.
i an electrician used to work at a greek orthodox monastery around here. i was weirdes out by them but they really chill tbh
Looks like a Dark Souls NPC
Soooo….they decapitate their dead monks and then do what exactly to the heads to get the skulls cleanly out?
He looks like he us about to cast some spells
This is common for some secluded monastries of the orthodox world.Some well known monks or patriarchs get to lie in the courtyard while others get this.
Far worse than this are the ottoman skull towers that i saw.
Cool!
This picture gives me some 40k chills
Can’t fool me, he is a necromancer with good PR departament.
this man’s fingers are enormous.
Kinda related interesting fact: Jews at the time, including Jesus and many christians long after held the belief that there is no seperation of soul and body. You are completely dead until the day of resurection when your physical body is made alive again and you are judged by god. The belief that the soul is somehow seperate from the body developed later and was inspired by ancient Greek philosophers, whom also gave us our common depiction of Jesus in a white robe and with a beard.
This is the closest we are going to get to the Predator skull trophy room
Metal af
Uhmmm so who’s responsible for fetching the skull once the flesh rots away? Or, do they do it some other way?
r/accidentalrenaissance
Their headless bodies roam the monastery after midnight.
Hm. You seem to find coin pretty charming yourself.
Sick in the head
He looks like Michael Palin
Nope nope nope