At her mortuary temple, in Osirian statues that regaled the transportation of the pharaoh to the world of the dead, the symbols of the pharaoh as the deity Osiris were the reason for the attire and they were much more important to be displayed traditionally, her breasts are obscured behind her crossed arms holding the regal staffs of the two kingdoms she ruled.

Osiris | Osirian statues of Hatshepsut at her tomb, one stood at each pillar of the extensive structure, note the mummification shroud enclosing the lower body and legs as well as the crook and flail associated with Osiris — Deir el-Bahri

Nephthys was attested as one of the four " Great Chiefs " ruling in the Osirian cult-center of Busiris, in the Delta and she appears to have occupied an honorary position at the holy city of Abydos.

Because it seems that Hatshepsut is making the offerings before the Red Chapel, it can be presumed that there were two mummiform, Osirian statues of Hatshepsut at the entrance, one standing on either side of the shrine when it was built.

When, by Dynasty XX, the " demonization " of Seth was ostensibly inaugurated, Seth was either eradicated or increasingly pushed to the outskirts, Nephthys flourished as part of the usual Osirian pantheon throughout Egypt, even obtaining a Late Period status as tutelary goddess of her own Nome ( UU Nome VII, " Hwt-Sekhem "/ Diospolis Parva ) and as the chief goddess of the Mansion of the Sistrum in that district.

* The Virgin New Adventures novel GodEngine by Craig Hinton offers an alternate explanation for the Daleks ' attempt to remove the Earth's core: an ancient Osirian weapon, capable of turning a star into a giant plasma cannon, which can be operated only on a planet without a bipolar magnetic field.

Necho I's Year 2 is now attested on a privately held donation stela that was first published by Olivier Perdu .< ref > Olivier Perdu, < cite > De Stéphinatès à Néchao ou les débuts de la XXVIe dynastie </ cite >( From Tefnakht II to Necho and the start of the 26th Dynasty ), CRAIBL 2002, pp. 1215-1244 </ ref > The stela records a large land donation to the Osirian triad of PerHebyt ( modern Behbeit el-Hagar near Sebennytos ) by the " priest of Isis, Mistress of Hebyt, Great Chief ... son of Iuput, Akanosh.

It should be remembered, however, that this new myth was only a later creation of the Osirian cult who wanted to depict Set in an evil position, as the enemy of Osiris.

Moreover, the Osirian statues of Hatshepsut — as with other pharaohs — depict the dead pharaoh as Osiris, with the body and regalia of that deity.

There, Nephthys was the primary protectress of the resident Osirian relic, of the Bennu Bird, and of the local Horus / Osiris manifestation, the god Neferhotep.

An Osirian afterlife is offered to everyone, and the deceased is even referred to as " the Osiris -".

Egyptologist Erik Hornung observes that Egyptian Christians continued to mummify corpses ( an integral part of the Osirian beliefs ) until it finally came to an end with the arrival of Islam, and argues for an association between the passion of Jesus and Osirian traditions, particularly in the apocryphal gospel of Nicodemus and Christ's descent into Hades.

Texts related to Osirian rituals come from the walls of Egyptian temples that date from the New Kingdom to the Ptolemaic era of 323 – 30 BC.

These " Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys " were ritual elements of many such Osirian rites in major ancient Egyptian cult-centers.

The rites were based on a seasonal death-rebirth theme ( common among agricultural cults ) and spirit possession ; the Osirian Mysteries paralleled the Dionysian, according to contemporary Greek and Egyptian observers.

It is unfortunate, perhaps, that we have no means of knowing the particular theologies of the closely connected Set and Nephthys temples in these districts — it would be interesting to learn, for example, the religious tone of temples of Nephthys located in such proximity to those of Seth, especially given the seemingly contrary Osirian loyalties of Seth's consort-goddess.

Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr ( approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars ), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the " third day " but he thinks " resurrection " is a questionable description.

* Although the name of Sutekh's race is pronounced " Osiran " throughout the serial, the scripts and publicity material spell it as " Osirian " in some places and as " Osiran " in others.

Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger does not see a direct analogy and notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr ( approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars ), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the " third day " but thinks " resurrection " is a questionable description.

Parts of this Osirian mythology have prompted comparisons with later Christian beliefs and practices.

Meanwhile, Nephthys was also venerated as " Mistress " in the Osirian temples of these districts, as part of the specifically Osirian college.

Nephthys plays an important role in the Osirian myth-cycle.

Scarman uses the spacetime tunnel to communicate with Sutekh, who orders Scarman to secure the perimeter of the estate and to construct an Osirian war missile.

These scenes were included on the DVD, along with an alternate version of the poacher being hunted down in Part Two, and a full version of the Osirian rocket explosion.

Many fans use the " Osirian " spelling, as do some reference works such as the Battles in Time collectable card game and the Virgin Missing Adventures sequel novel The Sands of Time.

It celebrates the unknown architect who designed the temple of Neptune at Paestum, next to the Parthenon the noblest example of Grecian classic style now in existence.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

Dr. H. V. Hilprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the University of Pennsylvania, dreamed that a Babylonian priest, associated with the king Kurigalzu, ( 1300 B.C. ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel, gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic, and corrected an error in its identification.

Instead, he walked around the temple and mounted still another flight of stairs and stood before the seated Fudo at their head.

The cold lingered, making sleep difficult that night, and he remained in bed still the next morning, now unable to keep from thinking about the inexplicable sight of burning metal, the wretched sound, the unbearable feeling of having been to a remote Tokyo temple at some earlier time in his life.

All of the elements of the experience were impossible and yet the reality of them was heavy upon him and he resolved never again to visit the temple at Fudomae.

Partial view of the temple of Apollo Epikurios ( healer ) at Bassae in southern Greece.

A temple was dedicated to Apollo Medicus at Rome, probably next to the temple of Bellona.

Apollo Vindonnus had a temple at Essarois, near Châtillon-sur-Seine in Burgundy.

Artemis Daphnaia, who had her temple among the Lacedemonians, at a place called Hypsoi in Antiquity, on the slopes of Mount Cnacadion near the Spartan frontier, had her own sacred laurel trees.

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 ".

Part of the Bassae Frieze ( from the temple of Apollo Epikurios ) at the British Museum.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

He called himself " The anointed priest of Anu " and " the great ensi of Enlil " and his daughter, Enheduanna, was installed as priestess to Nanna at the temple in Ur.

great ) was subordinate to the priestly ensi, and was appointed at times of troubles, but by later dynastic times, it was the lugal who had emerged as the preeminent role, having his own " é " (= house ) or " palace ", independent from the temple establishment.

Enheduanna, the " wife ( Sumerian " dam " = high priestess ) of Nanna Sumerian moon god and daughter of Sargon " of the temple of Sin at Ur, who lived ca.

Pausanias says that he was the author of one of the pediments of the temple of Zeus at Olympia, but this seems a chronological and stylistic impossibility.

More Latins were brought to Rome as citizens and were settled at the foot of the Aventine near the Palatine Hill, by the temple of Murcia

He presumably completed the work before 391, since at 22. 16. 12 he praises the Serapeum in Egypt as the glory of the empire, and the temple was destroyed by Christians at the end of that year.

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

* 2012 – The Oak Creek shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people ; the perpetrator was shot dead by police.

The Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun had Baltic amber among his burial goods, and amber was sent from the North Sea to the temple of Apollo at Delphi as an offering.

Although Ares received occasional sacrifice from armies going to war, the god had a formal temple and cult at only a few sites.