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| | Greek Architecture |
 | | Greek architecture suddenly became that of this rich, powerful Hellenic empire and was forced to break out of the fixed, small-scale vocabulary of forms that had been satisfactory for the Periclean temple. | | | The main temple was divided into two sections, dedicated to the worship of the two principal gods of Attica, Athena and Poseidon Erechteus. | | | The main temple was divided into two sections, dedicated to the worship of the two principal gods of Attica, Athena and Poseidon-Erechtheus. |
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| | Temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In particular, Greek and Roman temple architecture has been a major influence in Western public architecture. | | | The Temple of Heaven, a famous Taoist temple in Beijing. | | | In Judaism, the Temple in Jerusalem (Hebrew: בית המקדש, Beit ha Mikdash, literally "House of the Temple") on Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the center of ancient Judaism and the most important holy site in the religion. |
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| | Orthodox temple - encyclopedia article about Orthodox temple. |
| | An Orthodox temple is a church church building is a building used in Christian worship. | | | built in the shape of Greek cross and common in Orthodox Christianity Orthodox Christianity typically comprises those Christian traditions which are centered in eastern philosophy, as opposed to those traditions centered in the west. | | | , Temple of Saint Sava Temple of Saint Sava in Belgrade is the largest Orthodox temple currently in use. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/orthodox%20temple
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| | Temple of Artemis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Temple of Artemis (Greek: Artemision; Latin: Artemisium) was a Greek temple dedicated to Artemis completed around 550 BC at Ephesus (in present-day Turkey) under the Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian Empire. | | | The temple was influenced by many beliefs, and can be seen as a symbol of faith for many different peoples. | | | Nothing remains of the original temple, which was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. |
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| | DexDom.com - service information online sites list 20. |
| | Dionysos, Dionysus, Temple of Dionysos, temple of Dionysus, Bacchus, Bakkhos, Greek religion, spirituality, Hellenismos, Dionysian, Hellenic polytheism, paganism, pagan, god, reconstructionism, reconstructionist, greek reconstructionism, hellenic religion, Greece, ancient, Delphi, temple, maenad, maenads, temples, temenos, mythology, Greece, Hellas... | | | Details : Online Temple for the god Dionysos with links and information about the god, Hellenismos, Greek religion, and related websites to those practicing classical religions. |
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| | Artemis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Greek mythology Artemis is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. | | | Greek mythology Artemis (/'ɑ.tʌ.mɪs/) (Greek Ἀρτεμις) is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. | | | Artemis is thought to grant numerous boons and blessings on her followers, and is commonly worshipped by both men and women. |
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| | Greek Religion |
| | Here the Greeks and the priest of the temple would pray to the gods and ask a question about their futures. | | | Greeks built temples in every town for one god or goddess. | | | Religion was important to the ancient Greeks because they believed that it would make their lives better while they were living. |
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| | The Myth of Persephone: Greek Goddess of the Underworld |
| | The family begged the Goddess for forgive them and in return agreed to her demands: "A temple would be built in my honor, and you will teach the world my secret to immortality." Within no time, the town built a beautiful temple on the hillside, which the Goddess blessed before continuing on her journey. | | | While Greek philosophers such as Sophocles and Plato have acknowledged Persephone as a "welcomer of the dead," most myths do not tell this aspect in her story. | | | The myth of Persephone is one of the oldest of all Greek myths. |
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http://www.mythicarts.com/writing/Persephone.htm
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| | VLADIMIR |
| | Vladimir was baptized into Christianity, married Anne, a sister of a Greek emperor, and proceeded to introduce Christianity to his country. | | | Vladimir was curious to explore all the religions. | | | On the other hand when his representatives went to Constantinople and were led by the emperor into "the edifices where they worship their God" they were overcome by the opulent splendor. |
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http://econc10.bu.edu/economic_systems/NatIdentity/FSU/Russia/prerevolution/vladimir.htm
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| | Judaism |
| | BCE: In 168 BCE, the Greek ruler Antiochus, in attempt to unify the Greek kingdom, forcibly desecrated the Jewish Temple with statues of the Greek gods and tried to force the Jews to worship the Greek gods and give up their unique customs | | | CE with the destruction of the temple and banning of the Jewish people from their holy land | | | The Jews fought back (a fight for freedom of religion) and rededicated the Temple in 165 BCE: an event which is remembered to this day with the holiday of Chanukah ("dedication") |
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http://www.nvcc.edu/home/lshulman/Rel232/lectures/judaism/2ndtemple.htm
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| | Persecution of Ancient Greek religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Animal sacrifices to the Greek gods were typically given by those who reared animals, which were either slaughtered for food by the temple, or burned as a gift for the gods. | | | The Greek Society of Attic Friends, who claim 40,000 members, have been unsuccessful when they asked for recognition as a legal religion and were denied the right to build a temple in Athens. | | | Many followers of Ancient Greek religion have experienced persecution, mainly from Christians. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Ancient_Greek_religion
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| | Saint Sava |
| | Sava managed to persuade the patriarch of the Greek/Byzantine Orthodox Church to elevate St. Sava to the position of the first Serbian Archbishop, thereby establishing the Independence of Archbishopic of the Serbian Church in the year of 1219. | | | The temple of Saint Sava in Belgrade, whose construction was planned in 1939, begun in 1985 and awaits completion by 2004 is the largest active Orthodox temple in the world today. | | | Saint Sava is celebrated as the founder of the independent Serbian Orthodox Church and as patron saint of education and medicine among Serbs. |
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| | Theology WebSite: Church History Study Helps: Ancient Greek Religion |
| | The Greek temple housed the deity's image and possessions; it was not a place of assembly for worshippers but the home of the deity (cf Eph 2:20-21; 1 Cor 6:19). | | | The Greek gods were the most anthropomorphic of the gods of any people with the exception of those in Scandinavian mythology. | | | Homer lies at the foundation of the Greek tradition, and his prominence in the educational curriculum until the end of antiquity means that he is fundamental for Greek religious thought in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. |
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| | (c) Greek Church Book . com |
| | In addition to showcasing each of these churches through photographs and text, ECCLESIA provides context through scholarly essays on the Greek Orthodox Church's architecture, fundamental beliefs and history, as well as the meaning of its icons and symbols. | | | ECCLESIA also lends historical perspective about the Greeks who immigrated to the Midwest and founded most of these churches by recounting the establishment of the Greek American communities in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis. | | | The unique splendor of the interior of each church is shown in vivid color, as well as the magnificent exterior of each temple. |
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http://www.greekchurchbook.com
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| | Second-Temple Literature |
| | Judith is set in the more recent past, after the rebuilding of the Temple but before the Macedonian and Greek empire; its heroine, Judith, helps the Jews avoid being conquered by Assyrian invaders led by Holofernes. | | | Esther is set in the past, during the period before the Hebrews returned to Jerusalem to rebuild their Temple; the heroine of the book, Esther, is a Jewish woman who is one of the wives in the harem of the Persian king. | | | Their capital city, Jerusalem, including Solomon’s Temple, the center of the Hebrew religion, had been attacked repeatedly by the Assyrians and finally destroyed by the Babylonians. |
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http://gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu/tcnj/worldlit/2ndTemple.htm
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| | The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ® |
| | The Golden Dawn system of magic is designed to teach its students both abstract esoteric concepts as well as the more practical applications of ceremonial magic, Egyptian, Judeo-Christian, Greek, Gnostic, Rosicrucian, and Masonic elements can all be found within the teachings of the G:.D:. | | | The Golden Dawn system of magic is not a religion, although religious imagery and spiritual concepts play an important role in its work. | | | The Golden Dawn was designed by its founders to be an Hermetic Society dedicated to the philosophical, spiritual, and psychic evolution of humanity. |
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| | Blogoslovi |
| | On November 21, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Entrance of the Theotokos (Greek: "God-bearer", as the Church refers to the Virgin Mary) into the Temple in Jerusalem. | | | Thus, the feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple is the feast which celebrates the end of the physical temple in Jerusalem as the dwelling place of God. | | | She was led to the holy place to be "nourished" there by the angels in order to become herself the "holy of holies" of God, the living sanctuary and temple of the Divine child who was to be born in her. |
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| | Second-Temple Literature |
| | Judith is set in the more recent past, after the rebuilding of the Temple but before the Macedonian and Greek empire; its heroine, Judith, helps the Jews avoid being conquered by Assyrian invaders led by Holofernes. | | | Esther is set in the past, during the period before the Hebrews returned to Jerusalem to rebuild their Temple; the heroine of the book, Esther, is a Jewish woman who is one of the wives in the harem of the Persian king. | | | The Second-Temple Period continues into Roman times and through the birth and life of Jesus Christ (so that most of the New Testament is also Second-Temple Literature). |
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| | Temple of Artemis at Ephesus |
| | The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, sometimes called the Artemisium, was the greatest of the Greek temples on Asia Minor. | | | This temple dwarfed other Greek temples, both Eastern temples (like Ephesus) and temples on the mainland. | | | According to Plutarch, Artemis wasnt able to stop the burning of her temple because she was tending to the birth of Alexander. |
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| | Diana: Information From Answers.com |
| | Diana was the equivalent in Roman mythology of the Greek Artemis (see Roman/Greek equivalency in mythology for more details). | | | Diana was worshipped in a temple on the Aventine Hill and at the city of Ephesus where stood the Temple of Artemis. | | | Those who believe that prehistoric peoples lived in matriarchal societies consider Diana to have originated in a mother goddess worshipped at that time, and she is still worshiped today by women practicing the religion known as Dianic Wicca. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search View - Greek Mythology |
| | A Greek city-state devoted itself to a particular god or group of gods in whose honor it built temples. | | | The temple generally housed a statue of the god or gods. | | | Greek mythology owed much to cultures in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, especially in the realm of cosmogony (origin of the universe) and theogony (origin of the gods). |
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| | Artemis |
| | It was to Artemis, the force of creation, that Greek mothers called when the pangs of birth began, and they found comfort in their belief that she nursed them through labor just as she did any of her other animals. | | | But this familiar form was only one of the identities assumed by this complex Greek goddess, for she was also the many-breasted Artemis of Ephesus, a semi-human symbol of fecundity, and the warlike Artemis said to have been the special goddess of the Amazons. | | | It is problematical whether Artemis was originally an all-encompassing goddess later divided into separate identities, or if Artemis became so complex by assuming the attributes of lesser goddesses as her worshipers took control of Greece. |
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| | The Influence of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus |
| | A temple of this type is stereotypically Greek and, in fact, the appearance of such a structure is quite common from the Greek immigrants which settled in Asia Minor. | | | The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World because of the influence the city and the temple itself had on the rest of the Hellenic world through religion, architecture, and travel. | | | The temple chosen to represent this form of architecture was one from the fringes of the known world, associated with a mysterious and exciting religion, and yet glorified the world over by many whom had not even seen it, the Artimesium at Ephesus. |
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| | Corinth |
| | The heart of the city, the forum, was filled with temples and shrines to the emperor and various members of his family, built alongside temples to the older Greek gods such as Apollo. | | | That the Emperor cult, the indigenous Greek religion of the mythological gods, Eastern religions like Mithranism, and the mystery cults formed the religious background of Paul's mission was no less true in Corinth, perhaps more so, than other places he went. | | | Nothing is left of the fabled temple to Aphrodite, but remains of the medieval fortifications, which were built on earlier foundations, may still be seen from the western side. |
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| | Greek Religion: CULT OF ATHENA |
| | But when he was detected, Agesila¸s, his father, helped to pursue him to the temple of Athena Khalkioikos (of the Brazen House); the father walled up the doors of the shrine with bricks and killed his son by starvation. | | | When the Greeks failed to secure favorable winds to take them from Aulis, but were shut in for a long time by a violent gale, Teuthis quarrelled with Agamemnon and was about to lead the Arkadians under his command back home again. | | | After these mad outrages against the Greek cities and the gods of the Greeks he was attacked by the most foul of diseases. |
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| | HaSHEM = The NAME - To Speak and Promote or To Hide and Change? The Temple Inscriptions FOUND Undeniable FACTS! |
| | This is the earliest reference to the Temple found to date, outside of the scriptures. | | | An inscription found in 1967 documents the Name: Bayit Yahweh -- House of Yahweh for the Temple and Congregation of Yahweh. | | | Several early Greek writers of the Christian Church testify that the name was pronounced "Yahweh." This is confirmed, at least for the vowel of the first syllable of the name, by the shorter form Yah, which is sometimes used in poetry (e.g., Ex. |
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| | Hellenion |
| | We are named for a Greek temple set in a foreign land; as most of us are not natives of Hellas, we are still as committed as any born there to the ancient Greek gods. | | | We are a diverse group of Hellenic polytheists, sharing the common goal of living a life, both common and individual, of piety and proper respect for the gods of Olympos and ancient Hellenic tradition. | | | We do not feel that heritage is necessary to be involved in Hellenic spirituality; our gods choose as they will and we are Hellenes in spirit. |
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| | Ancient Olympics: Greek Mythological Origins, Tracy Marks |
| | Inside the temple was the 42 foot high gold and ivory statue of Zeus sculpted by Pheidias, considered to be one of seven wonders of the ancient world. | | | "The Games were held in honor of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, and a sacrifice of 100 oxen was made to the god on the middle day of the festival. | | | Students should bring to class Edith Hamilton's Mythology, Bullfinch's Mythology and/or Michael Grant's Myths of the Greeks and Romans. |
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