The Orthodox Church does not create new dogmas and practices like the Roman Catholic Church does, it instead aims to preserve the holy practices and traditions of the Early Church (pre-schism), of which the Bible is a product of.
Which were practices which are largely introduced and refined during the post split era of Rome. Those practices have lineages which can be traced back to pagan practices of the region and do not hold biblical justification outside of the apochripha (in most cases). I hold way less animosity towards eastern Orthodox than I do Catholic, but based on everything I've researched I can't find a convincing case for Orthodox outside of "tradition" which, as I said, cannot be found in Scripture and is largely just assumed based on "preservation of historical practices" which is a muddy subject at best.
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