He did not have a separate cult, but he was the personification of the holy magic-song sung by the magicians that was supposed to cure disease.

It is more probable that this art was introduced later from Anatolia and regenerated an existing oracular cult that was local to Delphi and dormant in several areas of Greece.

The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.

Apollo's cult was already fully established when written sources commenced, about 650 BCE.

On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".

The naked bodies of the statues are associated with the cult of the body that was essentially a religious activity.

Historically, her cult in Greece was imported from, or influenced by, the cult of Astarte in Phoenicia.

Kythira was a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Peloponesus, so these stories may preserve traces of the migration of Aphrodite's cult from the Middle East to mainland Greece.

Lycurgus of Thrace, an antagonist of Dionysus, forbade the cult of Dionysus, whom he drove from Thrace, and was driven mad by the god.

Agrippina was named a priestess of the cult of the deified Claudius.

This was part of Ealdred's promotion of the cult of Saint John, who had only been canonized in 1037.

Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-preserved than neighboring Kourion.

At both Chalcis and Athens Plutarch tells us that there was an Amazoneum or shrine of Amazons that implied the presence of both tombs and cult.

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.

The 4-volume work was an imaginary travel journal, one of the first historical novels, which Klemperer called " the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique " in the late 18th century.

Aeschylus was one of many Greeks who had been initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, a cult to Demeter based in his hometown of Eleusis.

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

In 2000, a French court ruled that a government minister's description of anthroposophy as a cult was defamatory.

At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.

However, the name Artemis ( variants Arktemis, Arktemisa ) is most likely related to Greek árktos ‘ bear ’ ( from PIE * h₂ŕ ̥ tḱos ), supported by the bear cult that the goddess had in Attica ( Brauronia ) and the Neolithic remains at the Arkouditessa, as well as the story about Callisto, which was originally about Artemis ( Arcadian epithet kallisto ).

There was a great expansion of the cult of Mary after the Council of Ephesus in 431, when her status as Theotokos (" God-bearer ") was confirmed ; this had been a subject of some controversy until then, though mainly for reasons to do with arguments over the nature of Christ.

A US religious freedom investigation confirmed Martin's observation that North Korean schoolchildren learn to thank Kim Il-sung for all blessings as part of the cult.

The Black October UK tour ( October – November 1984 ) confirmed the underground cult status of the band.

After the guru dissolved the cult in 1976, his mental condition was confirmed by Jeff's retrospective accounts to an author.

On 19 April 1101, persuaded by the envoys from Eric III of Denmark, Pope Paschal II confirmed the " cult of Canute " that had arisen, and King Canute IV was canonized as a saint under the name San Canuto.

The denomination confirmed all the decisions of Archbishop Kowalski and introduced the public cult of Feliksa Kozłowska, the Mateczka, the Spouse of Christ and new Redemptrix of the world.

He was honored as a saint by the Barnabites and others, but his cult was not confirmed until 3 January 1890, when Pope Leo XIII beatified him.

Pope Leo X sanctioned a liturgical cult within the church in the early 16th century, and was confirmed immemorial upon her canonization.

The ancient authors Strabo and Cassius Dio say that Getae practiced ruler cult, and this is confirmed by archaeological remains.

Pope Leo XIII confirmed the immemorial cult of the Blessed Thaddeus in 1896.

* Beatus Oglierio ( also Ogerius ), abbot of Lucedio 1205 – 1214 ; cult confirmed by Pope Pius IX in 1875

The Unmerciful Order EP ( their only " major " recording featuring a second guitarist, namely Mauricio Nogueira of Torture Squad ) established the band as a cult act, and that status was further confirmed by the release of their debut album Black Force Domain ( now as a trio ) in 1995.

It was confirmed in December 2008 that TV3 would axe the majority of Channel 6's homegrown programming which included Night Shift which had a cult following.

Later, Bishop Saint Petronius of Verona ( r. 412 – 429 ) wrote of Zeno ’ s virtues and also confirmed the existence of a cult dedicated to Saint Zeno.

Scholar Rudolf Simek comments that the pagan Yule feast " had a pronounced religious character " and comments that " it is uncertain whether the Germanic Yule feast still had a function in the cult of the dead and in the veneration of the ancestors, a function which the mid-winter sacrifice certainly held for the West European Stone and Bronze Ages.

Though this was unofficial, private cult ( sacra privata ) its annual feast on the Ides of September, the same day as the Epulum Jovis, was attended by pilgrims from all over the region.

Vladimir was later slewn by the Bulgars, and received a cult ; Shingjon ( the feast of St. Jovan Vladimir ), which is celebrated by the Albanian Orthodox Christians.

It is traditionally believed that Horemheb's highest year-date is likely attested in an anonymous hieratic graffito written on the shoulder of a now fragmented statue from his mortuary temple in Karnak which mentions the appearance of the king himself, or a royal cult statue representing the king, for a religious feast.

About the 13th century, however, the cult of St. Monica began to spread and a feast in her honour was kept on 4 May.

According to Herodotus, the Issedones practiced ritual cannibalism of their elderly males, followed by a ritual feast at which the deceased patriarch's family ate his flesh, gilded his skull, and placed it in a position of honor much like a cult image.

His cult was approved in 1572, and his feast day is May 22.

Finally, the cult holds a feast in her honour, and the initiation comes to an end.

Afterward, the cult prepares a feast for the girl.