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Re: [RC] Angie's Religion//The 9th Commandment - Beverley H. Kane, MDOn 6/15/06 6:19 AM, "Bruce Weary DC" <bweary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] there is one of The Ten Commandments she will assuredly never break. She will never, ever, ever...........................covet her neighbor's wife. ---- Ah, but what about coveting one's neighbor's wife's horse?! Not yet owning my own endurance horse, there are a few horses that I covet. I'm admittedly covetous when I volunteer at rides. At those times I -do- become aware that I'm breaking the 9th Commandment. I kick myself into continence, or at least try not to get copious drool on people's vet cards. Longrider Jeremy James, in his amazing books "Saddletramp" (ride from Istanbul to Wales) and "Vagabond" (ride across Eastern Europe)--*must reads* for endurance folk--tells how Turks put evil eye charms on their horses. On both his rides, he was given a charm for his horse, once in Turkey, once in ?? Bulgaria. The nearly universal middle eastern culture around the evil eye--prominent in both the Islamic and Jewish religions and among Arabs in general--is as a talisman protecting against other people coveting what you have, especially, no doubt, your horse. I read the James books recently (also his "Byerley Turk"--a great, moving novelized history of how the Thoroughbred foundation stallion/Ottoman war horse got from Istanbul to England), studied up on the Evil Eye phenomenon, & ordered a coupla dozen EE charms from Turkey. (Anyone on RC is welcome to PM me w/ your #1 tip for endurance and I'll send you one of the extras, left over from my Yule Sabbat gift list, while they last, for your horse.) Beverley Eclectic, washed neo-pagan quasi-wiccan of high priest Jewish atheist descent raised by Irish and Italian Catholics & Episcopalians --------- From the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments These last two commandments govern private thoughts: 9. "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife" 10. "and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's." Only the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches separate the commandment against coveting "your neighbor's wife" and his possessions into two separate commandments, to create the 9th and 10th commandments. For other Christians and for Jews, both are together in the 10th commandment. This separation is necessary to create 10 commandments because the commandment against making graven images (the Second Commandment of Orthodox and Protestant Christians and of Jews) is for Roman Catholics and Lutherans part of the first commandment. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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