The Devil's Make-Up (The Devil loves those who change their appearance)

"Here the Devil applies make-up to those who love diabolic transformations".

Wall-painting, 1802, Saint Marina Church, Kissos, Pelion.

Go to Aghios Georgios Church, Negades, Zagori (dedicated to St. George, Saint Demetrius and the Holy Trinity), to see this palindrome above the door women and girls enter, or used to go, to their area behind the lattice screen. The palindrome reads the same way in either direction. It's like a new commandment:

ΝIΨΟΝΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑΜΗΜΟΝΑΝΟΨΙΝ 

(NIPSON ANOMIMATA ME MONAN OPSIN) 

"Wash the sin and not only the face" or "Do not wash only your face- Wash away your sins!"

" νίψον = wash, ανομηματα = sins, μη = not, μονάν = only, όψιν = face (the)."

The Triune Church of St. George, Negades