Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@the_barnes_bot @guggenheimbot Slaying the dragon. Wiki: “The legend and iconography reached Western Christian tradition still in the 12th century, via the crusades.” St. George and Khezr, the original, shared, Christo-Islamic cultural archetype, presaging the wedding of these two great currents, in our time.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 23 Nov 2020

@poetinbabylon @UnrighteousD 2/ ...who assumed the form of the dragon-slaying figure of St. George. To this day there exists an unusual communion of religious sites in the Holy Land where veneration of St. George and Khezr is shared. St. George is, of course, the patron saint of England. The Martial Knight.

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Quoted by2/ Prophet Mohammed's (sal.) connections with Xian culture, childhood on, were direct, intimate, welcome. Then, the meeting of Xian and Moslem peoples during the Crusades heralded the first, great, trans-cultural cross-fertilization of these the two oceans at the planetary level.