Thank you Moose!!!
It looks like the original picture has already disappeared. But your
link lead me to
http://www.inathos.gr/athos/en/athos.asp?n=56&c=10&t=0
which isn't as colorful but the site has a lot of info.
-jeff
On 2/17/07, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jeff Keller wrote:
> > An OM motordrive yabe purchase linked to a non-photography site that
> > has an interesting picture of old buildings at the top.
> > http://www.athenshop.com/ Does anybody know where the picture was
> > taken?
> >
> Looks like Mount Athos, a small island in Greece mostly containing Greek
> Orthodox monasteries <http://www.inathos.gr/athos/en/>.
>
> VERY picturesque, but access is limited.
>
> "The basic conditions for admission are defined/ /in a /Chrysobullo/
> (edict) which was issued by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine Monomahos,
> in 1060 AD It is still valid and decrees that: *(*a*)* Women are never
> admitted into Mount Athos, *(*b*)* a permit is required for anyone
> entering the territory and *(*c*)* overnight stay is forbidden except
> for those who have proven religious or scientific interests and are over
> 18 years old."
>
> Interesting that they forbid women, as legend about the start of the
> place is:
>
> "According to the legend Panagia, the Virgin Mary and Mother of God, was
> sailing accompanied by St John the Evangelist on her way from Joppa to
> Cyprus to visit Lazarus. When the ship was blown out of course to then
> pagan Athos it was forced to drop anchor near the port of Klement, close
> to the present monastery of Iviron. The Virgin walked ashore and,
> overwhelmed by the wonderful and wild natural beauty of the mountain she
> blessed it and asked her Son for it to be her garden. A voice was heard;
> "let this place be your inheritance and your garden, a paradise and a
> haven of salvation for those seeking to be saved". Since that moment the
> mountain was consecrated as the garden of the Mother of God and is out
> of bounds to any other women."
>
> That logic doesn't work for me or any women I know.
>
> Moose
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