Orans concludes that Freeman's basic criticisms, that Mead was duped by ceremonial virgin Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu ( who later swore to Freeman that she had played a joke on Mead ) were false for several reasons: first, Mead was well aware of the forms and frequency of Samoan joking ; second, she provided a careful account of the sexual restrictions on ceremonial virgins that correspond's to Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' auma ' a's account to Freeman, and third, that Mead's notes make clear that she had reached her conclusions about Samoan sexuality before meeting Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu.

Evaluating Mead's work in Samoa from a positivist stance, Martin Orans ' assessment of the controversy was that Mead did not formulate her research agenda in scientific terms, and that " her work may properly be damned with the harshest scientific criticism of all, that it is ' not even wrong '".

Whether it is the same icon that was kept in Blachernae is a matter of scholarly debate, as the ancient icon is believed to have been of the Orans type, whereas the Athonite icon is of a style called Hodegetria ( literally, " She who leads the way ").

' Another inscription says, ' Statue, say unto my king ( god )..." The custom of praying in antiquity with outstretched, raised arms was common to both Jews and Gentiles, and indeed the iconographic type of the Orans was itself strongly influenced by classic representations.

One of the most convincing proofs that the Orans was regarded as a symbol of the soul is an ancient lead medal in the Vatican Museum showing the martyr, St. Lawrence, under torture, while his soul, in the form of a female Orans, is just leaving the body.

Wall painting from the early Christian Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter in Rome, showing Noah, in the Orans | Orante attitude of prayer, the dove and an olive branch.

One of the most remarkable figures of the Orans cycle, dating from the early fourth century, is interpreted by Wilpert as the Blessed Virgin interceding for the friends of the deceased.

* New Hieromartyrs Archimandrite Augustine of Orans Monastery and Archpriest Nicholas of Nizhni-Novgorod, and 15 people with them ( 1918 )

In 1996 Martin Orans examined Mead's notes preserved at the Library of Congress, and credits her for leaving all of her recorded data available to the general public.

But besides these Biblical Orans figures there exist in the catacombs many ideal figures ( 153 in all ) in the ancient attitude of prayer, which, according to Wilpert, are to be regarded as symbols of the deceased's soul in heaven, praying for its friends on earth.

An arcosolium in the Ostrianum cemetery represents an Orans with a petition for her intercession: Victoriæ Virgini.

As Orans points out Mead's data support several different conclusions, and that Mead's conclusions hinge on an interpretive, rather than positivist, approach to culture.

* Orans, Martin.

On the inside, it retains mosaics and frescos from the 11th century, including a dilapidated representation of Yaroslav's family, and the Orans.

File: Znamenskaya cerkov Vilnius. JPG | The church of the Theotokos Orans, Vilnius

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Orans ( Latin, praying ) or Orante is a figure with extended arms or bodily attitude of prayer, usually standing, with the elbows close to the sides of the body and with the hands outstretched sideways, palms up.

18th c. Byzantine art | Byzantine-style bronze panagia from Jerusalem, showing the Mary, the mother of Jesus | Virgin Mary in the Orans position

But the meaning of the Orans of Christian art is quite different from that of its prototypes.

Very probably the medieval representations of a diminutive body, figure of the soul, issuing from the mouths of the dying were reminiscences of the Orans as a symbol of the soul.

Directly in front of Mary is a boy, not in the Orans attitude and supposed to be the Divine Child, while to the right and left are monograms of Christ.

These are then surrounded by an image of a brown scapular, containing the words in Latin Orbis Unus Orans, ( One World Praying ) the motto of the Apostolate.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

Milton was to act as the archfool, the supreme wit, the lightly bantering pater, Pater Liber, who could at once trip lightly over that which deserved such treatment, or could at will annihilate the common enemies of the college gathering, and with words alone.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

Time was when the house of delegates of the American Bar association leaned to the common sense side.

for what had happened on the common was only terror and flight ; ;

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

Net income was $2,557,111, or $3.11 per share on 821,220 common shares currently outstanding, as compared to $2,323,867 or $2.82 per share in 1959, adjusted to the same number of shares.

The apparatus used by gymnasts was once a common sight in American gyms, but about 1930 it was dropped in favor of games.

By Nov. 8, 1958, weakness, specifically involving the pelvic and thigh musculature, was pronounced, and a common complaint was `` difficulty in stepping up on to curbs ''.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

The change was not quite so dramatic as it sounds because in fact common norms continued to be invoked by municipal courts and were only gradually changed by legislation, and then largely in marginal situations.

By 800 B.C. the Aegean was an area of common tongue and of common culture.

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

One of the most common of camp maladies was diarrhoea.

but a much more common designation was `` the sh-ts ''.