Dr Harout.......
Congratulations Grand Caliph
Take a bow, and I'll take your photo
Brian
Congratulations Grand Caliph
- bonneville
- Grand Caliph
- Posts: 269
- Joined: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:24 pm
- Location: Rutland (smallest UK county 50% of the time!)
- Dr. Harout
- Subsuming Vortex of Brilliance
- Posts: 5662
- Joined: Wed May 30, 2007 7:38 pm
- Location: Yerevan, Armenia
- Contact:
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
Hi Brian,
this means you've been away for quite some time.
Waiting for the next degree...
this means you've been away for quite some time.
Waiting for the next degree...
- Dr. Harout
- Subsuming Vortex of Brilliance
- Posts: 5662
- Joined: Wed May 30, 2007 7:38 pm
- Location: Yerevan, Armenia
- Contact:
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
I like the first smiley.
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
What about the new (or old?) pic of yours? Is this traditional Armenian clothing? Otherwise I'd say it looks like Palestinean But then my knowldge about Armenian and middle east culture and dress code is rather limited
- Dr. Harout
- Subsuming Vortex of Brilliance
- Posts: 5662
- Joined: Wed May 30, 2007 7:38 pm
- Location: Yerevan, Armenia
- Contact:
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
Definitely not Armenian, rather Arabic as Caliphs (Khalif) in the past.bossel wrote:What about the new (or old?) pic of yours? Is this traditional Armenian clothing? Otherwise I'd say it looks like Palestinean But then my knowldge about Armenian and middle east culture and dress code is rather limited
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
While we're at it---what is a Heirophant supposed to be? I never heard this word before, and my English-German dictionary also doesn't know this word ...
-- Olaf
-- Olaf
- bonneville
- Grand Caliph
- Posts: 269
- Joined: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:24 pm
- Location: Rutland (smallest UK county 50% of the time!)
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
I'm not sure that you should be one if you don't know what you are01af wrote:While we're at it---what is a Heirophant supposed to be?
And I haven't got a clue, but I bet Wikipedia will know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirophant
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
Hab ich auch schonma gefragt: http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/vie ... f=21&t=59001af wrote:While we're at it---what is a Heirophant supposed to be? I never heard this word before, and my English-German dictionary also doesn't know this word ...-- Olaf
I've asked this before and didn't get any good answer. I guess we're just stuck being heirophants Or is it hierophant??
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 5985
- Joined: Sat May 19, 2007 1:14 pm
- Location: Kelso, Scotland
- Contact:
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
Heirophant is a rather obscure word from the Tarot, from various 1980s computer games - according to Wiki:
"The role of the hierophant in religion is to bring the congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy. The word comes from Ancient Greece, ..."
but Wiki spells it ie not ei though it is pronounced it like 'hire' not 'hair' or 'here'. Which in English, like German, normally means ei not ie (though we are much less consistent than German and Scots is even worse - the Scots verb for to enquire or ask, to speir, is pronounced like spear).
I can not find it in any regular dictionary (I can no longer read my huge Oxford with the magnifier and small print) and both spellings are in widespread use. My spelling probably comes from some Dungeons and Dragons type of game twenty years ago, nothing very academic!
David
"The role of the hierophant in religion is to bring the congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy. The word comes from Ancient Greece, ..."
but Wiki spells it ie not ei though it is pronounced it like 'hire' not 'hair' or 'here'. Which in English, like German, normally means ei not ie (though we are much less consistent than German and Scots is even worse - the Scots verb for to enquire or ask, to speir, is pronounced like spear).
I can not find it in any regular dictionary (I can no longer read my huge Oxford with the magnifier and small print) and both spellings are in widespread use. My spelling probably comes from some Dungeons and Dragons type of game twenty years ago, nothing very academic!
David
- bonneville
- Grand Caliph
- Posts: 269
- Joined: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:24 pm
- Location: Rutland (smallest UK county 50% of the time!)
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
and since posting this I seem to have become a hierophant too. (hope there's a cure available )bonneville wrote:I'm not sure that you should be one if you don't know what you are01af wrote:While we're at it---what is a Heirophant supposed to be?
And I haven't got a clue, but I bet Wikipedia will know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirophant
- Dr. Harout
- Subsuming Vortex of Brilliance
- Posts: 5662
- Joined: Wed May 30, 2007 7:38 pm
- Location: Yerevan, Armenia
- Contact:
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
Just a few more posts (as much as you did by now ) and you'll enter the world of the mafias, becoming an oligarch... Cheer up, then it'll be very easy to buy the A900, or even someone may bring as a gift (or bribe as some might put it)bonneville wrote:... I seem to have become a hierophant too. (hope there's a cure available )
- pakodominguez
- Minister with Portfolio
- Posts: 2306
- Joined: Tue May 22, 2007 5:38 pm
- Location: NYC
- Contact:
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
I thought the dyslexic was me...David Kilpatrick wrote: I can not find it in any regular dictionary (I can no longer read my huge Oxford with the magnifier and small print) and both spellings are in widespread use. My spelling probably comes from some Dungeons and Dragons type of game twenty years ago, nothing very academic!
David
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hierophant
I'll check at home at the Dictionary of religions, by Mircea Eliade.
Pako
------------
http://www.pakodominguez.photo/blog" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
------------
http://www.pakodominguez.photo/blog" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- pakodominguez
- Minister with Portfolio
- Posts: 2306
- Joined: Tue May 22, 2007 5:38 pm
- Location: NYC
- Contact:
Re: Congratulations Grand Caliph
BTW, the day I get into the Gand Califa status, can we change the name to Wizard/Brujo? Chaman is too new age for my taste..
Pako
------------
http://www.pakodominguez.photo/blog" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
------------
http://www.pakodominguez.photo/blog" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 20 guests