How much of that folklore is still current today, I wonder?
Μοιρολόγιαι were still being performed as of 1979; I learned this from a book I proofed last year. I hadn't known of their existence before then. Glancing through JSTOR also tells me that a book on the tradition was published as recently as 1999. I can hope.
All these, and also Archangel Michael sitting down, adjusting his half-moon specs, and carefully writing the names of the forthcoming dead onto a tablet. I charish visions of heavenly bureaucracy.
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Μοιρολόγιαι were still being performed as of 1979; I learned this from a book I proofed last year. I hadn't known of their existence before then. Glancing through JSTOR also tells me that a book on the tradition was published as recently as 1999. I can hope.
All these, and also Archangel Michael sitting down, adjusting his half-moon specs, and carefully writing the names of the forthcoming dead onto a tablet. I charish visions of heavenly bureaucracy.
Poem?