HIST 218 Lecture Notes - Military Saint, Gello, Evil Eye
28 Mar 2014
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Holy men and women performed miracles and lives ascetic lifestyles. Seem by visitors as having power in their own rite not just through the divine. Many of these things are completely orthodox on one level (perfectly acceptable to orthodox theologians), but there is also room for ambiguity in these practices and beliefs. Most people in the byzantine world didn"t have the same sort of grasp as theologians on orthodoxy didn"t understand the way they were meant to. Not all demons and exorcisms are orthodox: ritual practices as having power in their own rite not just through grace this is unorthodox. Demons are without power individually power in orthodox traditions. In other traditions, they are more than just general they have names and specific power and attributes. Archangel michael and the child murdering demon of any names: in russian orthodox tradition (inherited from byzantine), he tramples female demon warrior, comes down from heaven with burning eyes and meets demon.
