Question
Answer the following about parallels between Balkan and Caribbean religious practice, for 10 points each.
[10e] Sicanje (“SEET-sahn-yeh”) is a form of this practice done by Catholic Croat women, while Caribbean Hindu women born before the 1960s had it performed as godna. A more temporary form of this practice is done at “henna parties.”
ANSWER: tattooing [or body art; or dyeing, decorating, or painting skin]
[10h] Men possessed by Saint Constantine perform this action near a konaki icon shelf in a Balkan ritual called Nestinarstvo or Anastenaria. In Trinidad, Tamil devotees of Draupadi perform this action in the tīmiti festival.
ANSWER: fire-walking [or fire-dancing; accept descriptions of walking on hot embers, coals, or flames; prompt on dancing or walking]
[10m] South Slavs hold a procession the day before Palm Sunday on the “Saturday” named for this man, who names “little” Greek sweet breads. You may also name the orisha syncretized with him, a lord of disease whose namesake Santería church in Hialeah won a Supreme Court case.
ANSWER: Lazarus OR Babalú-Ayé [accept Lazarice, Lazarákia, or Lazarus Saturday; accept Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah]
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Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 14.00 | 100% | 33% | 7% |
Data
I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Les Missourables | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Punished "Venom" BHSU | BHSU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Lisan al-Quib | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
We Need New Names | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
The Jeam Team | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
LMM's LLM MLM | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | var merchants | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |