Saturday, January 3, 2009

12/9 pt 2: The Ecumenical Patriarchate

This is a really good page in which to make sure that you are selecting "watch in high quality" on the youtube screen (bottom right under the photo on youtube page). It makes a big difference in being able to make out the icons and inlay, etc, inside the church.

As far as I can tell, the Ecumenical Patriarchate is the Seat of Power for Christian Eastern Orthodox Churches, including Greek, Russian, etc. They call the Patriarch (who seems a bit like a pope to me) "First Among Equals." I talk a wee bit about the Patriarchate in this video, which you may have watched in my last blog entry: a seagull summary of the day (after napping)* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI8wzTEO-9Y
The video I'd like to highlight from this part of the day is a wonderful demonstration of the gifts of our Professor, Ibrahim Farajaje. In it, he talks to us about the iconography inside the church, relates it to Rebecca Parker and Rita Brock's book, Saving Paradise, and goes into inter-relationships and overlaps of veneration between this Christian iconography and practices in local Turkish Islam.

Ibrahim explains multireligious symbols in the patriarchate* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaLbNPX_daw&feature=channel_page
There is only a little video from this portion of the journey, and I think it's all worthwhile if you have interest:
riverrock inlay pathwork such as I have seen at the Chinese Garden in PDX, cyclamen growing(my favorite flower), and Amina Nur imagines nests for cats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QS31Ps4BDg

Eastern Orthodox Seat of Power http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPhnej4jbWI
it is said she weeps and heals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOS-b2mdUFg
modern mosaic of accords between sultan and orthodox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5WOP6pscrM












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