(urth) Oldest altar

[David Stockhoff]

  Perhaps the knife is not dissimilar to the one Severian uses to split 
the skull of the old Autarch.

On 9/16/2010 6:13 PM, Matthew Weber wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Andrew Mason 
> <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com <mailto:andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com>> 
> wrote:
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>     Also. Severian dreams of a ritual taking place in the Citadel chapel
>     at a time before the old sun was darkened, which invoves bread, wine
>     and a knife - not exactly the Christian eucharist, but something like
>     it.
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> In the Eastern Orthodox liturgy, the (leavened) bread used in 
> Communion is cut with a triangular-bladed knife, referred to as the Spear.
>
> -- 
> Matt +
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> It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
>     Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.), Epistles, bk. III 
> (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 B.C.], l. 25
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