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- From: bgpierce@magellan.uwaterloo.ca (B.G. Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Ear Rings
- Message-ID: <Bz4A0D.9Ev@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <nabeel.723091131@oracle.sce.carleton.ca> <ednclark.723946141@kraken>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:48:12 GMT
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- In article <ednclark.723946141@kraken> ednclark@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Jeffrey Clark) writes:
- >nabeel@sce.carleton.ca (Nabeel Ghuzlaan) writes:
- >
- >I wonder about the cultural origin of wearing ear rings, as to how
- >this bad tradition propagated almost through all contemporay cultures
- >and what opinions people may have about it.
-
- I've heard that Greek sailors used to wear an earring because if they
- got killed at sea, the gold ring would always be on their person. That
- way they'd have the gold to pay their passage across the river Styx and
- thus would enter the Greek equivalent of heaven.
-
- True? Don't know. Maybe, but probably not the origin of the
- practice. Just an instance of it.
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