tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post9062898412008036364..comments2023-12-02T06:33:50.847-08:00Comments on Notes from a Common-place Book: Return to the Hill CountryTerry (John)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-44218284692945181352006-12-18T13:29:00.000-08:002006-12-18T13:29:00.000-08:00Thanks, hilarius. Yes, I think there may be some ...Thanks, hilarius. Yes, I think there may be some link with the remembrance of the resurrection. That, and perhaps for those without a substantial marker, this was a way of perpetuating the spot. Another theory can be found here: http://www.tngenweb.org/darkside/liberty-freewill.html <br /><br />Are you in the States now?Terry (John)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-28734864682055830942006-12-15T17:07:00.000-08:002006-12-15T17:07:00.000-08:00I wonder about the habits of grave tending and its...I wonder about the habits of grave tending and its relationship to a half-remembered belief in the resurrection. When I was in the Middle East, I got to view a Shi'a cemetery and my local guide noted that the graves were only kept for as long as there was someone to remember the person (unless the person was quite famous), maybe a generation, maybe two, and then the grave was opened, the bones moved over (not exhumed and placed in an ossuary like at Mt. Athos) and a new body for burial placed in with the old and a new marker placed at the head. The cemetery was rather sad in a different way from the sadness of an old, half-forgotten pioneer cemetery in the West of the U.S. but it's hard to describe.<br /><br />I haven't been commenting, but I've enjoyed your posts, and love the picture of Agia Sophia you recently posted.<br /><br />Have a blessed Nativity!<br /><br />-HHilariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05702731902033210478noreply@blogger.com