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There is a blue canton in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolizes Greek Orthodoxy, the established religion of the people of Greece. According to po pular tradition, the nine stripes represent the nine syllables of the phrase "E-lef-the-ri-a i Tha-na-tos" ("Freedom or Death"). There is also a different theory, that the nine stripes symbolize the nine Muses, the goddesses of art and civilization (nine has traditionally been one of the numbers of reference for the Greeks. Show more