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- Katabasia or Katavasia (Gr**** καταβασία, from καταβαίον, "descend") is a type of hymn, and the last troparion of an ode of a canon, chanted in the Eastern...
- Katabatic wind, cold winds that come from glacial mountains downward Katabasia, a type of hymn in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches...
- theme of the canon. The ode is completed with a final stanza called the katabasia. This might be a repetition of the irmos, the irmos of the last canon...
- which it is based to the hymns of the Ode that follow (see Canon). A katabasia is the irmos that is sung at the end of an Ode by the choir (which descend...