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Re: Waiting for new purchase
« Reply #160 on: September 30, 2013, 09:00:37 »
Ah, I think I may have seen those before. The modern theme isn't really my specialty.

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Re: Waiting for new purchase
« Reply #161 on: September 30, 2013, 17:47:03 »
Sorry about the helmet, if I'd caught that I would have switched it out for you. If the company doesn't come through on it let me know and I will send you one. I have a few extra laying around somewhere.

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« Reply #162 on: October 01, 2013, 00:08:30 »
Sorry about the helmet, if I'd caught that I would have switched it out for you. If the company doesn't come through on it let me know and I will send you one. I have a few extra laying around somewhere.

No worries. I figure with all the parts you had to sort through, it's no surprise you didn't see it. I'll see what the company says.

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« Reply #163 on: October 02, 2013, 06:37:32 »
Lovely purchases, Ismene.

Those three kings are a great set. I can never decide which 3 kings to use for my nativity scene at Christmass, because both these and the other version of them look so nice.

The tennis balls in a set of three have hugely frustrated me as a kid: how could my clickies play tennis with a set of balls?  :)

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Re: Waiting for new purchase
« Reply #164 on: October 02, 2013, 09:47:50 »
Those three kings are a great set. I can never decide which 3 kings to use for my nativity scene at Christmass, because both these and the other version of them look so nice.
Then use both! There's no reason there has to be three wise men. The tradition comes from there being three gifts, but realistically there would have been more than three (three decked out guys traveling through the desert would be too easy a target for robbery). This year, I'll have the six wise men, some women, a couple of servants and whoever else looks like they could come from that time period. I need more camels though - only have four.

The tennis balls in a set of three have hugely frustrated me as a kid: how could my clickies play tennis with a set of balls?  :)
Ha ha, yeah that is problematic.

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« Reply #165 on: October 02, 2013, 18:47:55 »
Then use both! There's no reason there has to be three wise men. The tradition comes from there being three gifts, but realistically there would have been more than three (three decked out guys traveling through the desert would be too easy a target for robbery). This year, I'll have the six wise men, some women, a couple of servants and whoever else looks like they could come from that time period. I need more camels though - only have four.

You're right... Great idea and I will definitely be using it this Christmass, if you don't mind  ;D   

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Re: Waiting for new purchase
« Reply #166 on: October 02, 2013, 21:22:44 »
Then use both! There's no reason there has to be three wise men. The tradition comes from there being three gifts, but realistically there would have been more than three (three decked out guys traveling through the desert would be too easy a target for robbery). This year, I'll have the six wise men, some women, a couple of servants and whoever else looks like they could come from that time period. I need more camels though - only have four.
Ha ha, yeah that is problematic.

Here is some extra historical information regarding the wise men:


The Gospel narrative omits to mention the number of the Magi, and there is no certain tradition in this matter. Some Fathers speak of three Magi; they are very likely influenced by the number of gifts. In the Orient, tradition favours twelve. Early Christian art is no consistent witness:

a painting in the cemetery of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus shows two;
one in the Lateran Museum, three;
one in the cemetery of Domitilla, four;
a vase in the Kircher Museum, eight (Marucchi, "Eléments d'archéologie chrétienne", Paris, 1899, I 197).


From:  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09527a.htm

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Re: Waiting for new purchase
« Reply #167 on: October 02, 2013, 21:58:15 »
werent there three sheep herders too?

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Re: Waiting for new purchase
« Reply #168 on: October 02, 2013, 23:54:14 »
werent there three sheep herders too?

Read Luke and Matthew.

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Re: Waiting for new purchase
« Reply #169 on: October 03, 2013, 04:36:03 »
Here is some extra historical information regarding the wise men:


The Gospel narrative omits to mention the number of the Magi, and there is no certain tradition in this matter. Some Fathers speak of three Magi; they are very likely influenced by the number of gifts. In the Orient, tradition favours twelve. Early Christian art is no consistent witness:

a painting in the cemetery of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus shows two;
one in the Lateran Museum, three;
one in the cemetery of Domitilla, four;
a vase in the Kircher Museum, eight (Marucchi, "Eléments d'archéologie chrétienne", Paris, 1899, I 197).


From:  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09527a.htm

Twelve wise men would make for an epic Christmas display!