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Today's Flickr photo with the most hits was taken in Meteora, in the monastery of the Transfiguration, Great Meteoron; the semantron

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Their tradition also links the sound of the wood to the wood of the Garden of Eden that caused Adam to fall when he plucked its fruit, and to the nailing to the wood of the cross of Jesus Christ, come to atone for Adam's transgression.

Romanian Priest practicing 'Toaca'.He is beating the Semantron (a wooden board made of heart of Maple or Beech) with two wooden mallets to summon the monastics to prayer. Where there is a metal Semantron, it is customary to strike it after the wooden one has been played.The semantron is sounded every midnight for night offices (Midnight Office and Matins) this is done by the candle-lighter.The Semantra are usually suspended by chains from a peg in the proaulion (porch of the catholicon) or outside the refectory door, or on a tree in the courtyard.

Semantron Tribal

Semantron and Bells, St.Chaterine Monastery, Mt. Sinai, Egypt