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is the phrase, "Holy Moly", a corruption of something in the Russian Orthodox liturgy?
i was listening to a cd of Russian Orthodox Music, and there was a phrase which sounded like 'holy moly', so i just wondered if it was something like 'hocus pocus', from 'hoc est corpus'.
2 Answers
- Big HLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
No, its a corruption of "Holy Mother of god", but a lot qiucker to say !
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No.
Etymology
c. 1941, originates with use in Captain Marvel comic book stories written by Bill Parker and Otto Binder and drawn by C.C. Beck (created in 1940) for American publisher Fawcett Publishing.
Also, the origin of the word Moly in this phrase, comes from Homer's Odyssey. In book 10, Hermes gives the herb to Odysseus to protect him from Circe's incantation. Homer describes Moly by saying, "The root was black, while the flower was as white as milk; the gods call it Moly, and mortal men cannot uproot it, but the gods can do whatever they like."
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