Talk:Orans

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I believe the orans were women not a prayer position.

The preceding sentence was written by someone not logged in, but I just put a note on another discussion page that bears on it. There are at present two articles: Orant and Orans. Orans mentions the posture, but is mostly about the figural depiction of the posture; Orant is mostly about the posture itself. I don't see why these can't be in the same article. But if they are two different articles, I would think that (for linguistic reasons) the present alignment is backwards. Orans, being the nominative form of a verb, should be about the posture and Orant, being even more nominalized, should be about the figural depiction. Any thoughts? theloavesandthevicious (talk) 17:38, 2 March 2008 (UTC)