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Like ad orientem prayer, Epiphany originally had a connection to the rising sun; Syrian Christians of the second century called it denho (the up-going) and connected it with Zechariah’s prophecy at the birth of John the Baptist: “And you, child . . . will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins . . . when the day shall dawn upon us from on high” (Luke 7:76a, 77–78). That Christmas itself was still practically unknown can be deduced by its absence on the preserved listings of early Christian feasts, such as those of Irenaeus, Tertullian, Epiphanius, and Clement of Alexandria (all of which include Epiphany).
The Apostasy That Wasn't
Rod Bennett
The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
It had stopped snowing and was dreadfully cold, the kind of cold said to spawn wolf stars. The peasants believed that on such cold nights the stars came down from the heavens to mate with wolves. Their offspring terrorized the world on the dark nights of winter.
The Blood Countess
Andrei Codrescu
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