Re: [tied] holly elements

26-08-03 21:51, alex wrote:

> I should like to ask if nowadays in the christian folks in Europe are
> some pagan sacral expresions which call with the title of "saint" or
> holy elements as earth, stars, sun, sea, moon, water, fire.
> Since the catholic church was more represive versus such pagan
> expresions, I will expect to find something like this in the Ortodox
> area of the christianity which was more liberal from this point of view.
> If there are any folk which still kept such elements for holly or
> saintly, then which of these elements ( earth, stars, sun, sea, moon,
> water, fire ) are still considered in folk's mouth as "saint's" or
> holly?

Hollywood, perhaps (not in Europe, to be sure, but many of the religious
denominations found there are rather liberal).

Piotr