The earliest extant documents referencing these deities are three small stelae ( cippi ) found near ancient Lavinium shortly after World War II.

Laurentum was an ancient Roman city of Latium situated between Ostia and Lavinium, on the west coast of the Italian peninsula southwest of Rome.

Gate into the interior of the settlement of the frazione of Pratica di Mare, a mediaeval walled village at the site of the center of ancient Lavinium.

Pratica is observably smaller than ancient Lavinium, whose remains crop out in the surrounding fields.

In ancient times Lavinium had a close association with the nearby Laurentum.

The gravel was the bed of an ancient river, buckled in some prehistoric upheaval of earth.

As a boy in a local school he was shy and solitary, absorbed in his fondness for nature and his visions of Sweden's ancient glory.

The obvious natural fact to ancient thinkers was the diurnal rotation of the heavens.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

Even D. A. Wasson, who compared The Emancipation Of Massachusetts to the lifting of a fog from ancient landscapes, was also forced to admit the methodological deficiencies of the author.

One part of her audience was totally engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly fine performance of some ancient classic, the other part, the guest of the connoisseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent interest in that which he does not fully understand.

The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.

Some time later the missing part of the relic was found and the complete inscription, together with other new evidence, fully corroborated the ancient priest's information.

Dr. Hilprecht was uncertain as to the language used by the ancient priest in his dream.

That the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal, gradient frequencies, across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met??

The site of the oblong piazza is Domitian's ancient stadium, which was probably used for horse and chariot races.

An ancient Rolls-Royce, as shiningly impressive as the day it came off the ship, was parked at the curb.

Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.

The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; ;

A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea tray resting on the backs of three giant elephants, which in turn stood on the shell of a great tortoise.

She had come to make her peace with the past, and of that past this ancient of the earth was only a kind of shadow.

They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

The normal method of calculation in ancient Rome, as in Greece, was by moving counters on a smooth table.

The ancient history of Asia Minor is very important for the history of the Western civilization because it was the region where the mythic way of thought changed gradually to the rational way of thought.

The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.

In ancient times, the sea was the birthplace of two ancient civilizations – the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenean Civilization of the Peloponnese.

In ancient times, navigation through the sea was easier than travelling across the rough terrain of the Greek mainland ( and to some extent the coastal areas of Anatolia ).

Byzantine control was challenged by Arab raids starting in the 7th century ( see Byzantine – Arab Wars ), but in the 9th and 10th century a resurgent Byzantine Empire regained its lost territories and even expanded beyond its traditional borders, into Armenia and Syria ( ancient Aram ).

Some three years later Empress Carlota of Mexico visited Uxmal ; in preparation for her visit local authorities had some statues and architectural elements depicting phallic themes removed from the ancient façades.

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Portrait of Payne Knight by Thomas Lawrence ( painter ) | Sir Thomas LawrenceRichard Payne Knight ( 15 February 1750 – 23 April 1824 ) was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.

Notoriously, Knight's first book, The Worship of Priapus, sought to recover the importance of ancient phallic cults.

The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of an Anglo-Saxon bishop Eorpwald, known as the " Melpham excavation ".

Throughout ancient Pompeii, erotic frescoes, depictions of the god Priapus, sexually explicit symbols, inscriptions, and even household items ( such as phallic oil lamps ) were found.

Plato drew a parallel between Athene and the ancient Libyan and Egyptian goddess Neith, a war deity who also was depicted carrying a shield.

The only possible interpretatio graeca of high antiquity concerning Diana Nemorensis could have been the one based upon this ancient aspect of deity of light, master of wildlife.

In ancient Rome, the genius ( plural in Latin genii ) was the guiding spirit or tutelary deity of a person, family ( gens ), or place ( genius loci ).

While the ancient Egyptian beliefs usually recognized many gods, worship was often focused primarily upon a supreme deity, and this focus also changed from time to time.

In the ancient Near East, each city had a local patron deity, such as Shamash at Larsa or Sin at Ur.

In western Eurasia, the ancient traditions of the Slavic religion had elements of monotheism, of a supreme deity known by many names worshiped by some tribes.

Some scholars see a connection between Minos and the names of other ancient founder-kings, such as Menes of Egypt, Mannus of Germany, and Manu of India, and even with Meon of Phrygia and Lydia ( after him named Maeonia ), Mizraim of Egypt in the Book of Genesis and the Canaanite deity Baal Meon.

In Igbo villages, oracles were usually female priestesses to a particular deity, usually dwelling in a cave or other secluded location away from urban areas, and, much as the oracles of ancient Greece, would deliver prophecies in an ecstatic state to visitors seeking advice.

Profanities in the original meaning of blasphemous profanity are part of the ancient tradition of the comic cults, which laughed and scoffed at the deity or deities.

In a number of ancient religions, a life-death-rebirth deity is a deity which dies and resurrects.

The sun god in Hinduism is an ancient and revered deity.

Chhath ( Hindi: छठ, also called Dala Chhath ) is an ancient Hindu festival dedicated to Surya, the chief solar deity, unique to Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai.

Aten, the disk of the Sun in ancient Egyptian mythology, and originally an aspect of Ra, was chosen as the sole deity for Akhenaten's new religion.

Eloah or Elah may be considered cognates of Allah due to the common Semitic root name for ( an or the ) creator God, as in El ( deity ) of ancient Near Eastern cosmology.

* In the 2008 video game Prince of Persia, a gigantic, ancient tree in the middle of the desert is used to keep the evil deity Ahriman sealed in a temple at its trunk.

In Greek, this deity would become Zeus ( pronounced zdeus in ancient Greek ).

He wore the regalia traditionally associated both with the ancient Roman monarchy and with the statue of Jupiter Capitolinus: the purple and gold " toga picta ", laurel crown, red boots and ( again, possibly ) the reddened face of Rome's supreme deity.

Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Libera, an ancient fertility goddess, wife of Liber and is also considered a life – death – rebirth deity.

The Unknown God or Agnostos Theos () is a theory by Eduard Norden first published in 1913 that proposes, based on Paul's Areopagus speech in Acts 17: 23, that in addition to the twelve main gods and the innumerable lesser deities, ancient Greeks worshipped a deity they called " Agnostos Theos ", that is: the " Unknown god ", which Norden called " Un-Greek ".

This ancient deity was said to be massive, large enough to block out the sun.

In ancient Rome only the native deities of Roman mythology had a templum ; any equivalent structure for a foreign deity was called a fanum.

They called the islands " Gorgades " in remembering the home of the mythical Gorgons killed by Perseus and afterwards-in typically ancient euhemerism-interpreted ( against the written original statement ) as the site where the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator slew two female " Gorillai " and brought their skins into the temple of the female deity Tanit ( the Carthaginian Juno ) in Carthage.

Buddhists do not worship Brahma ( a Hindu deity ) or " Deva " ( an ancient South Asian term for a deity, today meaning either a Hindi translation of the English " God "/ Latin " Deus " concept Christian Indians tend to use the term " Parameshvara " or " Supreme Creator God " for the Christian God the Father or a synonym for the ancient South Asian concept of Brahman ).