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Nicholas Kotar Publishes The Song of Sirin

By Jonathan Pageau on July 11, 2017
Nicholas Kotar Publishes The Song of Sirin

  (Editor’s note:  We are excited to announce that Nicholas Kotar, who has written a few great pieces for OAJ, has recently published his first novel.  Here is a version of his press release.) Orthodox Writer writes a fantasy novel inspired by Russian fairy tales and the Lives of the Saints. Discouraged by the lack […]

Posted in News | Tagged fairy tales, fantasy, Nicholas Kotar, novel, Symbolism, Tolkien July 20, 2017

The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher (pt.2): Encountering Saint-Christopher

By Jonathan Pageau on August 26, 2013
The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher (pt.2): Encountering Saint-Christopher

This is post 2 of 2 in the series “The Dog Headed Icon of St-Christopher” In my last article on the dog-headed icon of St-Christopher, I promised to take the reader on an encounter with the Saint.  In order to do this, we must travel quite far from our main subject of iconography, but this […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged centaur, cherub, cherubim, cynocephali, cynocephalus, dog-headed, dragon, Ethiopian, fantasy, giant, heracles, hybrid, Icon, Jonathan Pageau, kerub, monster, Orthodox, satyr, sci-fi, st-christopher, st-christophoros, st-moses the black April 1, 2017

Understanding The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher

By Jonathan Pageau on July 8, 2013
Understanding The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher

This is post 1 of 2 in the series “The Dog Headed Icon of St-Christopher”   This post is the first of a series. Part two The icon of St-Christopher is one of the most astounding images found in the Orthodox Tradition.  Showing a dog-headed warrior saint, it conjures fantastical stories of werewolves or of […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged Ark, Armenian, Cain, Caleb, Canaan, Canaanite, cynocephali, cynocephalus, dog-headed, Elijah, Elisha, Ethiopian, eunuch, fantasy, flood, foreigner, garments of skin, giant, Icon, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, Joshua, monster, moses, Orthodox, Pentecost, periphery, sci-fi, st-christopher, st-mercurios, st-mercurius July 17, 2017

The Serpents of Orthodoxy

By Jonathan Pageau on April 18, 2013
The Serpents of Orthodoxy

One of the most surprising images one is faced with considering Orthodox liturgical symbolism is the bishop’s staff sporting two snakes flanking a small cross atop it.  Especially in a Protestant North American context, this image seems to hark back to ancient chthonian cults, more a wizard’s magic staff than anything Christian.  As I have […]

Posted in Liturgical Objects, Minor Arts, Theory | Tagged bronze serpent, crook, crosier, cross, crozier, crucifixion, dragon, dragons, fantasy, Jonathan Pageau, moses, nehuschtan, Orthodox, pageau, sci-fi, serpent, snake, staff, Symbolism July 14, 2014
 

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