: For a list of some of the most noted oracular pronouncements of the Pythia, go to Famous Oracular Statements from Delphi.

The validity of the Oracular utterance was confirmed by the consequences of the application of the oracle to the lives of those people who sought Oracular guidance.

Oracular hero cults.

* Oracular Trees are sometimes attributed with the ability to speak to individuals, especially those gifted in divination.

Such statues were found across the Greek speaking world, the preponderance of these were found at the sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia alone.

Such statues are found across the Greek-speaking world, the preponderance of these were found in sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia, alone.

However, not all kouroi are images of a deity ; many have been discovered in cemeteries where they most likely served as commemorative tombstones of the deceased, also the type was used as a memorial for victors in the games ( like trophies ) ( Pausanias describes the statue of Arrhichion, an Olympic pankratiast, as in the kouros scheme ), and some kouroi have been found in sanctuaries other than that of Apollo.

As well as being found in the sanctuaries of Apollo at Delphi, Delos and Mt.

Ptoion, kouroi have been found dedicated at the sanctuaries of Hera at Samos, and of Athena and Poseidon at Sounion, so the contention that they depict Apollo is at the very least problematic.

In the northern section were found several temple ruins ( E: Temple of Hera, F: Temple of Apollo & G: Temple of Dioscuri ) including what may be Herodotus ' Hellenion discovered by Hogarth in 1899 ( directly east of F .) " None of the votive pottery found here need have arrived earlier than the reign of Amasis, so it may well be that the Hellenion was founded as the result of his reorganization of the status of Naucratis, while the independent sanctuaries ... are of the earlier years of the town.

He also spoke of the particular ruthlessness of the Alamani in destroying Christian sanctuaries and plundering churches while the genuine Franks were respectful towards those sanctuaries.

In December 1967 Washington Post journalist Stanley Karnow was told by Sihanouk that if the US wanted to bomb the Vietnamese communist sanctuaries, he would not object, unless Cambodians were killed.

In response, the United States moved to provide material assistance to the new government's armed forces, which were engaged against both CPK insurgents and NVA forces. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, desperate to retain their sanctuaries and supply lines from North Vietnam, immediately launched armed attacks on the new government.

Even when such a sentence might have been imposed, the Cities of Refuge and other sanctuaries, were at hand for those unintentionally guilty of capital offences.

Therefore many sanctuaries were dedicated to her in the lands inhabited by Latins.

Earlier sanctuaries, whose dedication to Hera is less secure, were of the Mycenaean type called " house sanctuaries ".

In the early 3rd century BC, the Belgae conquered the surrounding territories of the Somme in northern Gaul after a battle supposedly against the Armoricani near Ribemont-sur-Ancre and Gournay-sur-Aronde, where sanctuaries were found.

In some instances mosques have been established on the places of Jewish or Christian sanctuaries associated with Biblical personalities who were also recognized by Islam.

Some Mithraic sanctuaries were destroyed and religion was no longer a matter of personal choice.

The practices ended when Justinian sent Narses to destroy sanctuaries, arrest priests, and seize divine images, which were taken to Constantinople.

In Ancient Rome and throughout Italy, the ancient sanctuaries of Ceres and Proserpina were invariably led by female sacerdotes, drawn from women of local and Roman elites.

In 1871, a Ministry of Rites was formed and Shinto shrines were divided into twelve levels with the Ise Shrine ( dedicated to Amaterasu, and thus symbolic of the legitimacy of the Imperial family ) at the peak and small sanctuaries of humble towns at the base.

Toward the end of the seventh century ( BCE ) in Judah, worship of Yahweh was restricted to the temple in Jerusalem, while the major sanctuaries in the northern kingdom were at Bethel ( near the southern border ) and Dan ( in the north ).

Religious leadership resided in priests who were associated with sanctuaries, and also in prophets, who were bearers of divine oracles.

However, the Save Wild Elephants Coalition disputed this, reporting that there were three other sanctuaries in Africa that had offered to take the elephants.

The majority of mission sanctuaries were oriented on a roughly east-west axis to take the best advantage of the sun's position for interior illumination ; the exact alignment depended on the geographic features of the particular site.

Cities were founded in his name, medals struck with his likeness, and cities throughout the east commissioned godlike images of the dead youth for their shrines and sanctuaries.

Otherwise, in Rome and throughout Italy, as at her ancient sanctuaries of Henna and Catena, Ceres ' ritus graecus and her joint cult with Proserpina were invariably led by female sacerdotes, drawn from women of local and Roman elites: Cicero notes that once the new cult had been founded, its earliest priestesses " generally were either from Naples or Velia ", cities allied or federated to Rome.

Mudumalai, which means ' first hills ’, is one of the first wildlife sanctuaries established in India.

One of the oldest bird sanctuaries in United States territory was established in Culebra on February 27, 1909 by President Teddy Roosevelt.

King Devanampiya Tissa of Sri Lanka established one of the world's earliest wildlife sanctuaries in the 3rd century BC.

The Government of India established many protected areas including 2 biosphere reserves, 13 National parks to restrict human access, several wildlife sanctuaries to protect specific endangered species and many Reserve Forests, which are all managed by the forest departments of their respective state to preserve some of the ecoregions still undeveloped.

The System was established by the Coastal Zone Management Act ( CZMA ) of 1972 as estuarine sanctuaries and was renamed to estuarine research reserves in the 1988 reauthorization of the CZMA.

In view of the rich avifauna of the lagoon, two bird sanctuaries are established in the lagoon, one in each of the two states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

There are three wildlife sanctuaries established in 1977 under the Bangladesh Wildlife ( Preservation ) Order, 1973 ( P. O.

When formally established in 1909, the Gould League of Bird Lovers, as it was then called, was devoted to bird protection, especially the prevention of bird egg theft, the promotion of interest in and knowledge of birds and to campaign for the formation of bird sanctuaries.

The municipality has established several sanctuaries, within which fishing and boating is absolutely prohibited.

Seraj-ul-Emarat, the residence of Amir Habibullah and King Amanullah was destroyed in 1929 when Habibullah Kalakani rose to power ; the other sanctuaries however, retain vestiges of the past.

There are 14 national parks, 72 wildlife sanctuaries, 66 game reserves, 9 marine and littoral protected areas, 19 protected wetlands and a number of other protected grasslands, shrublands, woodlands and natural monuments.

Bandipur National Park and Mudumalai National Park, which are sanctuaries for gaur, chital, elephants, tigers, Indian leopards and other threatened species, lie between and to the south.

While temples and sanctuaries to Nusku-Girru are found in Babylonia and Assyria, he is worshipped more in symbolical form than the other gods.

Together with the westernmost sanctuary of Entry into Jerusalem, these sanctuaries form the main west – east axis ( Christ, Mary, Holy Trinity ), while other sanctuaries are dedicated to individual saints.

Septimius also built baths, a theatre, a hippodrome, numerous sanctuaries and other public buildings in the city.

Many Catholics resisted the changes: some have taken legal action to try to prevent the removal of altar rails and of other traditional features in pre-Vatican II sanctuaries.

Other venerable objects associated with the hero were more likely to be on display in sanctuaries, such as spears, shields, or other weaponry ; chariots, ships or figureheads ; furniture such as chairs or tripods ; and clothing.

In Istanbul and Asia Minor the architecture of the Komnenian period is almost non-existent, with the notable exceptions of the Elmali Kilise and other rock sanctuaries of Cappadocia, and of the Churches of the Pantokrator and of the Theotokos Kyriotissa in Istanbul.

: From to Aššur and ( from ) Susa, Agade, Ešnunna, Zamban, Me-Turnu, Der, as far as the region of Gutium, the sacred centers on the other side of the Tigris, whose sanctuaries had been abandoned for a long time, I returned the images of the gods, who had resided there in Babylon, to their places and I let them dwell in eternal abodes.

Environmentalists and other activists continue to oppose the building of new golf courses for environmental reasons, as they may impede corridors for migrating animals and damage sanctuaries for birds and other wildlife, though some courses have become havens for native and non-native creatures.

This form is also used more broadly in Catholic tradition with reference to sanctuaries other than the Temple in Jerusalem.

Still other lesbian feminists put forward a notion of " tactical separatism " from men, arguing for and investing in things like women's sanctuaries and consciousness-raising groups, but also exploring everyday practices to which women may temporarily retreat or practice solitude from men and masculinity.

Just south of the city walls, at a site still called Santa Venera, a series of small terracotta offertory molded statuettes of a standing female nude wearing the polos headdress of Anatolian and Syrian goddesses, which were dated to the first half of the sixth century BC, were found in the sanctuary ; other similar ones have been excavated at other Paestum sanctuaries during excavations in the 1980s, but the figure is highly unusual in the Western Mediterranean.

Ataegina was worshiped in Lusitania and Betica ; there were also sanctuaries dedicated to Ataegina in Elvas ( Portugal ), and Mérida and Cáceres in Spain, along with other places, especially near the Guadiana river.

In addition, the parish is populated with several other historical religious sanctuaries: Chapel of Santa Rita de Cássia, Chapel of Senhora da Guadalupe and Chapel of Santo Cristo.

Berger suggested that a number of sanctuaries and protected areas be created for threatened and endangered species, particularly porcupine caribou, white whales, several bird species, and other animals inhabiting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR ).

Huaco or Guaco is the generic name given in Peru mostly to earthen vessels and other finely made pottery artworks by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas found in pre-Columbian sites such as burial locations, sanctuaries, temples and other ancient ruins.