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Girka

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Gir’ka 

(Russian, pendant), a figured architectural detail, usually in the form of a small inverted pyramid of brick or stone.

A gir’ka is suspended from an iron rod hidden in the structural masonry and serves to support two small decorative arches, usually situated under a large arch that joins them. Gir’ki were widely used in Russian architecture of the 16th and 17th centuries in decorating gates, porticoes, and window apertures.
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Girka ("cooking" or "preparing food") involves the ritual consumption of small pieces of the sensory organs of the sacrificial animals--the ears, eyes, nose, tongue, and foot--meant to intensify and enhance the sensory receptivity of initiates when bori spirits "ride" their adepts (Masquelier 2001:118).
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