Re: CHAT: Visible planets (was: Corpses)

--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:

> I mentioned in another post that the Nidirino
> have a higher literacy rate
> than the Trehelish.  (That should actually be
> Trehelo, but, for some
> reason, that one gets Anglicized, and the other
> two don't.)  Literacy is
> encouraged among the Nidirino for religious
> reasons.  A lot of the special
> occasion prayers, such as the ones for
> eclipses, are printed in the
> standard, pocket-sized prayerbook.  These
> prayers are used infrequently
> enough that they would not get memorized by
> sheer repetition, as would
> sunset and dawn prayers, or even prayers for
> the lunar cycle that are heard
> daily or monthly.  (And I know from experience
> that when you hear a
> liturgical text at intervals of less than one
> week, it is difficult to
> memorize it from hearing it repeated.
I was amazed in participating in Eastern Catholic
liturgies how so many people knew all the words
and music without looking at the missals or
weekly pamphlets.

Perhaps they just used them as references before
hand, you know a sort of "oh, OK, that one
again".

I'm sure that at least older practicing Nidirino
would have most if not all of those prayers and
liturgies down pat.

> Anything
> repeated daily becomes
> memorized quickly.  I can rattle off large
> portion of Morning Prayers and
> Prayers Before Sleep without thinking, and
> frequently do, which is
> annoying, because if you're not concentrating
> on what you're saying, you're
> not actually praying, so I am perfectly capable
> of getting through 15 or 20
> minutes of prayers with out actually *praying*
> at all.  I need to correct
> that situation.)
If possible, try varying the prayers with
scripture readings or a capella prayer.

Out of pure curiosity, how much has the Orthodox
faith been an influence on Nidirino or even
Cwendaso religion?

Padraic.


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