Wordie: Tools Of God: Comments

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:36:05 +0000

Thanks sionnach, right on the ball as usual you old fox. I'm looking for more words from non-Christian religions just to balance the scale so come on all you voodoo warriors, speak up! This list is focussed on objects with ceremonial roles rather than clothing of religious personages, which perhaps deserves ... another list? :->

Comment by sionnach, 9 months ago

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:29:10 +0000

thurible? aspergillum?

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:12:25 +0000

Really? I always loved the sound of "crucifix," for some reason.

Comment by chained_bear, 10 months ago

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:38:26 +0000

I always thought crucifix was a scary word. (I guess it's supposed to be, though.) This list rocks. Its awesomeness can scarcely be contained by its abbreviated length.

Comment by rolig, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:46:05 +0000

Congrats, bilby. And speaking of hideously fascinating things, how about reliquary?

Comment by bilby, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:40:09 +0000

I like monstrance too, hideously fascinating! Found the word I was looking for: turba.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:36:16 +0000

Rolig, that's a great description of that word: scary/funny. :-)

Comment by rolig, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:32:53 +0000

as someone raised as a kind of hybrid Presbyterian Quaker, with the Quaker part eventually dominating, I don't know much about religious paraphernalia, but one word that I have always found surprising and a little scary/funny is monstrance. I have no idea what your Muslim friend's stone would be called, but I am delighted you want to know.

Comment by bilby, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:57:45 +0000

I knew a girl who was a Shia Muslim and she had this kind of stone. The idea was to hold it in the hand, and during the prostration bit of the prayer to plop it in front so the forehead touched the stone and not the ground. I would love to know that those things are called.

Comment by bilby, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:54:08 +0000

This list is a neglected member of my flock. Churches and I don't breathe in each other's faces that often.

Comment by rolig, 10 months ago

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:43:54 +0000

Misanthropic me! Here I was, expecting to find words like hurricane, flood, pestilence, drought . . .