As she grew older, Elizabeth became famous for her virginity, and a cult grew up around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants, and literature of the day.

The cult that grew up around Rousseau after his death, and particularly the radicalized versions of Rousseau's ideas that were adopted by Robespierre and Saint-Just during the Reign of Terror, caused him to become identified with the most extreme aspects of the French Revolution.

Fröhlich inverts the order of events in Priester and states that with the Odin cult, the Lombards grew their beards in resemblance of the Odin of tradition and their new name reflected this.

Later the imperial cult of Genghis Khan ( centered on the eight white gers and nine white banners in Ordos ) grew into a highly organized indigenous religion with Tengriist scriptures in the Mongolian script.

As the organization grew in power, a cult of personality grew around Guzmán.

Wenceslas was considered a martyr and a saint immediately after his death, when a cult of Wenceslas grew up in Bohemia and in England.

Influenced by Shaftesbury and his followers, 18th-century readers, particularly in England, were swept up by the cult of Sensibility that grew up around Shaftesbury's concepts of sympathy and benevolence.

During the same period Mao's personality cult grew to immense proportions.

From about 300 BC onwards, the cult of Asclepius grew very popular and pilgrims flocked to his healing temples ( Asclepieia ) to be cured of their ills.

The term cargo cult, as an idiom, originally referred to aboriginal religions which grew up in the South Pacific after World War II.

His cult grew in Prague, Bohemia when, in 925 A. D., king Henry I of Germany presented as a gift the bones of one hand of St. Vitus to Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia.

With the Nineteenth Dynasty, his cult grew and he became one of the four great gods of the empire of Ramses.

Although their impact on the art in North America was minimal for decades, the distinctive nature of the anime series created a cult following that grew gradually until the 1980s when Star Blazers and Robotech, with their complex storylines and frank depiction of violence, helped create the groundswell that would lead to the major influx of anime popularity starting in the 1990s.

" Moshe D. Sherman, an associate professor at Touro College wrote that " as Schneerson's empire grew, a personality cult developed around him ... portraits of Rabbi Schneerson were placed in all Lubavitch homes, shops, and synagogues, and devoted followers routinely requested a blessing from him prior to their marriage, following an illness, or at other times of need.

From about 300 BC onwards, the cult of Asclepius grew very popular and pilgrims flocked to his healing temples ( Asclepieia ) to be cured of their ills.

Kurtenbach's stature as a local cult figure grew to the point that he once was the host of a public school " celebrity " basketball charity event.

They grew cereals and raised domestic livestock and, in keeping with many other ancient Mediterranean cultures, formed a fertility cult represented in Malta by statuettes of unusually large proportions.

Wenceslas was considered a martyr and a saint immediately after his death, when a cult of Wenceslas grew up in Bohemia and in England.

By promoting the Feast day of Mary ’ s Nativity, Fulbert was able to advance the importance of Mary and therefore the cult of her worship grew.

The cult of Lenin, imposed from the upper echelons of the Party, grew to gigantic proportions in the years immediately following his death.

While the original PC game received rave reviews and grew a cult following around the world, PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions were critical disappointments and incredibly inferior ( butchered ) ports.

The murder of Naboth ( see Jezebel ), an act of royal encroachment, stirred up popular resentment just as the new cult aroused the opposition of certain of the prophets ( Elijah, Micaiah, and a few unnamed prophets ).

Entry-level IT workers and white-collar American workers alike have given Mike Judge's 1999 comedy film Office Space a cult following because of its heroic portrayal of ordinary office employees who become fed up with their jobs.

" Declaration ' Non Cultus '" At some point, permission is then granted for the body of the Servant of God to be exhumed and examined, a certification (" non cultus ") is made that no superstitious or heretical worship or improper cult has grown up around the servant or his or her tomb, and relics are taken.

The actual deprogramming takes place when it is deemed possible to " pick up " the cult member, and when it is convenient for the deprogrammer.

# Self-expression: When the subject begins to open up and voice gripes against the cult.

In 1956 at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Khrushchev condemned the cult of personality that had been built up around Joseph Stalin and also accused him of many grave mistakes.

Initially, he was not swept up by Hitler's charisma or the cult of Führer worship.

A little later there are a number of figures of large-eyed priests and worshippers, mostly in alabaster and up to a foot high, who attended temple cult images of the deity, but very few of these have survived.

How a cult of Mary Magdalene first arose in Provence has been summed up by Victor Saxer in the collection of essays in La Magdaleine, VIIIe – XIIIe siècle and by Katherine Ludwig Jansen, drawing on popular devotions, sermon literature and iconology.

This " sharing " has caused a pseudo-religious cult or series of cults to grow up around the layouts and the use of the drug.

Priests staffed temples throughout Egypt, giving offerings to the cult statues in which the gods were believed to take up residence and performing other rituals for their benefit.

“... The English home closed up and darkened over the decade ( 1850s ), the cult of domesticity matched by a cult of privacy .” Bourgeois existence was a world of interior space, heavily curtained off and wary of intrusion, and opened only by invitation for viewing on occasions such as parties or teas.

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

While always a success in Japan, Iron Chef became a surprise cult favorite in the United States when it was picked up by the Food Network and dubbed in English.

The cult of Isis and Osiris continued up until the 6th century CE on the island of Philae in Upper Nile.

Such a cult once superseded on the Mount would have been taken up and preserved by the Iulii, private citizens bound to the sacra Albana by their Alban origin.

* Jim Carter as Kenneth Trant: the middle-aged head of a Christan cult who murders one of his students after accidentally impregnating her, and conspires with his cult to cover it up.

Statuary, cult objects, religious offerings and unsalvageable architectural members were buried ceremoniously in several deeply dug pits on the hill, serving conveniently as a fill for the artificial plateau created around the classic Parthenon.

In some cases, the alleged victim of human sacrifice has become venerated as a martyr, a holy figure around whom a martyr cult might arise.

Initially, it was suspected that the killings were committed by a Satanic cult ; later more killings were reported around the island, and many farms reported loss of animal life.

Pausanias, in travelling around Greece, attributed to Daedalus numerous archaic wooden cult figures ( see xoana ) that impressed him: " All the works of this artist, though somewhat uncouth to look at, nevertheless have a touch of the divine in them.

" Some have argued that, in spite of Italian Fascism's attempt at totalitarianism, it became an authoritarian cult of personality around Mussolini.

This cult of personality around the Kuomintang party leader and the Kuomintang was standard in all meetings.

Conversely, Walter Burkert suggests that the Hellene cult worship of Poseidon as a horse god may be connected to the introduction of the horse and war-chariot from Anatolia to Greece around 1600 BC.

Anarchists are critical of the statist, totalitarian nature of Stalinism, as well as its cult of personality around Stalin ( and subsequent leaders seen by anarchists as Stalinists, such as Mao ).

A " rejuvenated religious cult " arose around Kimnara in the late twentieth century.

In Iron Age I the religious life of ordinary Israelites, like that of other peoples throughout the Ancient Near East, was organised around the family-based cult of the ancestors and devotion to a local god, the " god of the fathers ".

As with the shortened rule of Vladimir Lenin, speculators have much room to advocate their favourite theories and to develop the minor cult of personality which has formed around him.

Their cult centered around three small lakes that emitted sulphurous vapors in the Palagonia plain, and as a result these twin brothers were associated with geysers and the underworld.

She may have been Phrygia's State deity ; her Phrygian cult was adopted and adapted by Greek colonists of Asia Minor, and spread from there to mainland Greece and its more distant western colonies from around the 6th century BCE.

In around 500 BCE, a mendicant priest of Cybele was killed in Athens, for his attempt to " corrupt " the city's women with this subversively alien cult.

Towards the end of the Second Punic War, around 205 BC, an officially recognised joint cult to Ceres and her daughter Proserpina was brought to Rome from southern Italy ( part of Magna Graecia ) along with Greek priestesses to serve it.

It is believed that the cult of Adonis was known to the Greeks from around the sixth century B. C., but it is unquestionable that they came to know it through contact with Cyprus.