From Mask to Icon: Transformation in the Arctic Akathist The first part of the

The first part of the book contains iconographic illustrations with short titles which make clear the central meaning of the picture

The words of Patriarch Bartholomew

and God in turn revealed him and gave him to the whole world

and how to express what we say

μια επίμονη προσπάθεια να κερδηθή ό

From Mask to Icon: Transformation in the Arctic Akathist The first part of thePages: 288 15 x 23 cm In a marvelous combination of history and anthropology, together with his scholarly dedication to Greek patristics, S. A. Mousalimas in his book, From Mask to Icon, emphasizes the transition to Russian Orthodoxy, as an indigenous movement among the native Alaskan people. The study concentrates particularly on the Aleut and Alutiiq nations, for whom decades of evidence from diverse sources is available consistently to substantiate