The Body Remembers
How the Sign of the Cross Performs the Kusti at Every Threshold of Daily Life eFireTemple “In all our travels and movements, in all our coming in and going out, in putting of our shoes, at the bath, at the table, in lighting our candles, in lying down, in sitting down, whatever employment occupieth us, we mark our foreheads with the sign of the cross.” — Tertullian, De Corona iii (c.
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How the Sign of the Cross Performs the Kusti at Every Threshold of Daily Life eFireTemple “In all our travels and movements, in all our coming in and going out, in putting of our shoes, at the bath, at the table, in lighting our candles, in lying down, in sitting down, whatever employment occupieth us, we mark our foreheads with the sign of the cross.” — Tertullian, De Corona iii (c. 200 CE) “The kusti is to be untied and re-girded several times during the day… before prayer, before meals, after bathing, after rising, before sleeping. The Zoroastrian must always have the sacred shirt and thread on his body.” — Dādestān-i Dēnīg, Chap. 39 (9th c. Zoroastrian text); J.J. Modi, Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees (1922) The Gesture That Punctuates the Day There is a gesture every observant Catholic and Orthodox Christian performs dozens of times a day. Before prayer.
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