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Tests on mysterious stone could rewrite history(LaSalle and Marquette)
Belleville News Democrat ^
| 14 Aug 2006
| AP
Posted on 08/14/2006 10:17:53 PM PDT by Marius3188
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To: GoLightly
Thanks. But do you remember the IHS part? It would be useful if you might.
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posted on
08/15/2006 8:28:37 PM PDT
by
mathurine
(ua)
To: raybbr
So, you got part of it right which is about normal for a head full of cheddar. :^) LOL You misunderestimate me. Other cheeses are also good. :o)
I didn't know they used that in RI.
May not be the whole state, bein as it's so big n'all. Years ago, I ran into some guy from RI on a different board. Every once in awhile, regional linguistic quirks would become a topic. The RI guy & I were giving some woman from MD fits, dropping wild clues like, "place for middle school boys to park mini-skirted chics". One of those silly "how Southern are you?" quiz deals, said there's an area in Southern MA where it's used.
Yeah???? Just wait till next year------
LOL Trust me, I know the feeling.
...dar, hey.
Sheesh I thought I heard them all.
Not dar, der, rhymes w/ there. I forgot to include the standard "ya" that usually precedes "der hey". :o) My ex is 100% Polish & when he'd give me the business about my mutt pedigree, specially the German part, "ya der hey" was usually a reliable response. lol
To: mathurine
But do you remember the IHS part? It would be useful if you might. I haven't a clue about IHS. I was following along w/ your back & forth about it, in the hope that I'd learn from y'all. I knew you weren't correct about a mother named Sophia & while double checking, found out the correct translation for the basilica.
Bout the only Latin that ever stuck w/ me was "sempar (semper?) ubis sub-ubis" & yes, I know that is very substandard usage.
To: gleeaikin
Why keep clams It's a Seattle-ism. We had a guy who ran a string of seafood joints...and his motto was "Keep Clam."
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:25:22 PM PDT
by
paulat
To: GoLightly
Not dar, der, rhymes w/ there. I forgot to include the standard "ya" that usually precedes "der hey". :o) My ex is 100% Polish & when he'd give me the business about my mutt pedigree, specially the German part, "ya der hey" was usually a reliable response. lolOkay, I will use "ya der hey" on the guy at work and look for his response.
Thanks. It was fun. See you around and God bless. Ray.
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posted on
08/16/2006 2:28:12 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: concentric circles
Does anyone have any more info on the resting cross symbol?
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posted on
08/16/2006 11:42:13 PM PDT
by
Bellflower
(A Brand New Day Is Coming!)
To: Bellflower
I haven't been able to learn anything about the resting or reclining cross. The Jesuits used an image of three nails beneath the IHS and cross monogram.
If this was left by La Salle it would make sense that he would use a Christian sign but not the Jesuit version. The Society of Jesus sought to monopolize trade and exploration throughout the upper Great Lakes and treated all others as rivals.
In some circles it was common practice to post the IHS symbol above entries and gates. The Ellington Stone was found near the high ground of the portage from McKee Creek to Cedar Creek, from the Illinois River drainage to the Mississippi River drainage. Just the type of location where a shelter might be built and consecrated with a Christian symbol over the doorway.
To: GoLightly
The vision that Constantine had before battle was a cross and the phrase "in hoc signo vinces", and is not IHS, which is a monogram of Our Saviour's name.
"From the third century the names of our Saviour are sometimes shortened, particularly in Christian inscriptions (IH and XP, for Jesus and Christus). In the next century the "sigla" (chi-rho) occurs not only as an abbreviation but also as a symbol. From the beginning, however, in Christian inscriptions the nomina sacra, or names of Jesus Christ, were shortened by contraction, thus IC and XC or IHS and XPS for Iesous Christos. These Greek monograms continued to be used in Latin during the Middle Ages. Eventually the right meaning was lost, and erroneous interpretation of IHS led to the faulty orthography "Jhesus". In Latin the learned abbreviation IHC rarely occurs after the Carlovingian era. The monogram became more popular after the twelfth century when St. Bernard insisted much on devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus, and the fourteenth, when the founder of the Jesuati, Blessed John Colombini (d. 1367), usually wore it on his breast. Towards the close of the Middle Ages IHS became a symbol, quite like the chi-rho in the Constantinian period. Sometimes above the H appears a cross and underneath three nails, while the whole figure is surrounded by rays. IHS became the accepted iconographical characteristic of St. Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419) and of St. Bernardine of Siena (d. 1444). The latter holy missionary, at the end of his sermons, was wont to exhibit this monogram devoutly to his audience, for which some blamed him; he was even called before Martin V. St. Ignatius of Loyola adopted the monogram in his seal as general of the Society of Jesus (1541), and thus it became the emblem of his institute. IHS was sometimes wrongly understood as "Jesus Hominum (or Hierosolymae) Salvator", i.e. Jesus, the Saviour of men (or of Jerusalem=Hierosolyma)."
I.H.S.
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posted on
08/20/2006 6:03:30 PM PDT
by
visualops
(artlife.us)
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posted on
06/27/2008 9:55:53 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Marius3188
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posted on
06/27/2008 10:01:48 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
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