Chi Rho Mass

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Chi Rho Mass

Post by archonix » Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:56 pm

One of the fun things about having so very many artists around is that they tend to do stuff. Fun stuff. Two of our resident, er, residents have been posting a rather fun set of advent-calendar images in the run up to the big day, easily spotted on our front page or in the Art board.

I'm off to make christmas booze now. Have fun!

If anyone is wondering the greek letters Chi and Rho, being the first two letters of the word "christ" in Greek, were often used as short-hand for "christ" and also often combined into a little monogram like this: . In turn this was often simplified to an X, which is why you find Christmas shortened to Xmas, making it interesting history rather than an evil atheist plot. Of course some people think that they're being all clever and sticking it to christians by using Xmas instead of Christmas, but they're just silly. This educational moment was brought to you by the letter Ω and the number e.
Our choicest plans have fallen through, our airiest castles tumbled over, because of lines we neatly drew and later neatly stumbled over.
— Piet Hein - Grooks
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