[SG] Teatowels and Headgear

> --- Robin Paul <Robin.Paul@tesco.net> wrote:

> > Except for the keffiahs. . . I've yet to meet an

> I don't know what the rank is called, but I've seen

Since we're using official nomenclature...:)

The monastics (and all the senior clergy are
monastic--bishops and higher) wear a dohicky with a
teatowel on the top.

http://www.russian-orthodox-church.org.ru/en.htm has a
picture of His Holiness the Patriarch of All Russia in the middle. Is this
what you mean? It's got a sort of crown under the tea towel. The TV antenna is
a cross. You'll notice simillar crosses on the top of crowns of Russian Tsars
and Roman Emperors. The implications are left to the imagination.

http://www.goarch.org/goa/archbishop/ has a picture of
the more usual teatowel-style monastic headgear.  The
teatowel is affixed to a hat rather than being worn on the top of the head.

But there is absolutely no way in hell you'd find an Orthodox monastic with so
much as an air rifle. There's no tradition (and in Orthodoxy, if it's not
approved by Tradition, it just doesn't happen) of violent monks along the
lines of Templars, Hospitallars, et al.

The Skoptsi. See, for example:
http://www.warehouse23.com/item.cgi?PAG1008

> John Atkinson wrote:

--- Edward Lipsett <translation@intercomltd.com>
wrote:
> The Skoptsi. See, for example:

I got an add for a SJGames roleplaying supplement.

Do you have any real sources? I mean, all this gave me was one sentence.

G'day John,

> But there is absolutely no way in hell you'd find an

Well as its science fiction I've got room to think about how they got such a
tradition between now and 2180s;)

G'day,

By the way John thanks for the links I've already thought about how I could
adapt the figs to look like these guys... now we'll have to wait and see if I
can pull it off;)

Well,
http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_2171.html
has a little more, but it's all fiction, after all...

> John Atkinson wrote:

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