Apr. 8th, 2007

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Since half my family's Christian, we have Easter at my grandmother's every year. Which is always a bit fun, since it, by design, falls within Pesach (if you're Roman Catholic or the vast majority of Protestants). (That's the whole thing about the "The first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox, or whatever it is -- it's designed to get it to fall in the week of 14 Nissan, which is Pesach. See, since Jewish months start on the New Moon, the 14th of the month is the full moon, and therefore, the Sunday after the full moon after the Spring Equinox is the Sunday within Pesach. Except if it's a Jewish leap year, in which case it's one month out, since Jewish leap years add an extra month in.)

But there's usually enough food for my parents and Lis and me to eat, what with the salad and the potatoes and the asparagus and the salmon and so forth.

So, we had a big meal and hung out with family, and then Lis and my cousin Erica and I fell asleep on various sofas and beds that are around my grandparents house, and that was Easter. It was really pretty nice.
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So, today at Easter, between eating and napping, we were all going through tour books and DVDs of Italy, since that's the branch of my family that's all going to Italy this summer. And, as we were looking at information about cathedrals, Lis asked me something.

"So," she said, "in our universe, cathedrals are built on a cross-shaped footprint, right?"

"Yeah, mostly."

"In the world of The King's Name, what do you think cathedrals look like?"

(See, in The King's Name, the guy who showed up in the Roman-empire analogue and said, "Hey, wouldn't it be nice to be nice to each other," ended up stoned to death, rather than crucified, before he got up three days later and explained that bodily death wasn't really such a big deal, after all. So that god's followers wear, as their symbol, a pebble, instead of a cross.)

I thought it was a really interesting question.

Circular floorplans? Oval? With domes? It's your world, [livejournal.com profile] papersky -- have you ever considered this question?

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