In the practice of religion, a cult image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents...
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former presence is made concrete in temples, shrines and churches, and cult images, including votive offerings at votive sites. Cicero defined religio as...
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A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the result of an effort which is made to create an idealized and heroic image of a glorious leader,...
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Ancient Greek religion (redirect from Panhellenic cults)
in some sense resided in the cult image in the cella or main room inside, normally facing the only door. The cult image normally took the form of a statue...
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The Cult are an English rock band formed in Bradford in 1983. Before settling on their current name in January 1984, the band performed under the name...
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Temple of Artemis (section Cult and influence)
cult image. Thirty-six of these columns were, according to Pliny the Elder, decorated by carvings in relief. A new ebony or blackened grapewood cult statue...
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Isis (redirect from Cult of Isis)
deity's cult image and offered it food. In Roman times, temples to Isis in Egypt could be built either in Egyptian style, in which the cult image was in...
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Ancient Greek sculpture (section Cult images)
used for the hair only. Chryselephantine sculptures, used for temple cult images and luxury works, used gold, most often in leaf form and ivory for all...
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overthrow of a matrilineal cult. In his view Pygmalion, the consort of the goddess's priestess at Paphos, kept the cult image of Aphrodite as a means of...
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Look up graven image in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Graven image or graven images may refer to: Cult image, a human-made object that is worshipped...
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