In Tamil Nadu the equivalent term is Thiru nangai ( mister woman ), Ali, aravanni, aravani, or aruvani.

The most numerous third-gender sect ( estimated at 150, 000 ) is the aravani or ali of Tamil Nadu in southern India.

The aravani worship the Hindu god, Aravan, and do not practice any system of castration.

Not so, he answers, it is not the architect but the temple that is immortal.

Nearby is the temple of Athena.

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.

The old oracles in Delphi seem to be connected with a local tradition of the priesthood, and there is not clear evidence that a kind of inspiration-prophecy existed in the temple.

One interpretation of his motive is that it was in revenge for Achilles ' sacrilege in murdering Troilus, the god's own son by Hecuba, on the very altar of the god's own temple.

At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th and 6th century temple to Apollo Daphnephoros, " Apollo, laurel-bearer ", or " carrying off Daphne ", a " place where the citizens are to take the oath ", is identified in inscriptions.

In the pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia, the single figure of Apollo is dominating the scene.

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 is commemorated in the Walhalla temple, a monument near Regensburg to the distinguished figures of German history.

In Asgard also is a temple for the 12 gods, Gladsheim, and another for the 12 goddesses, Vingólf.

After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora in Augustus's time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes ' statue show the god in a breastplate, so the identification of Alcamenes ' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.

It is said that he was desirous of erecting a temple to Jesus, but was dissuaded by the pagan priests.

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

A second temple has also been located at the archaeological site of Metropolis in what is now Western Turkey.

This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the hekatompedon ( Greek for " hundred – footed "), Ur-Parthenon ( German for " primitive Parthenon "), H – Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue.

Whether this temple replaced an older one, or a mere sacred precinct or altar, is not known.

East of the entrance and north of the Parthenon is the temple known as the Erechtheum.

The temple of Athena Nike is the only edifice still unfinished, pending proper reassembly of its parts, all of which survive practically intact.

Supporters of this view believe that the Roman Empire does not threaten the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ because Luke “ simply recognizes its existence as a political reality, but he is clear that God is greater .” Throughout Acts, believers like Paul are being charged with spiritual crimes concerning “ teaching against Israel, the law, and the temple ” ( Acts 21: 21, 28 ; 23: 29 ; 24: 5 ; 25: 8, 19 ; 28: 17 ) or being a civil disturbance ( Acts 16: 20, 21: 38, 25: 8 ) rather than political charges.

The shofar or keren ( horn ) is the only temple instrument still being used today in the synagogue, and it is only used from Rosh Chodesh Elul through the end of Yom Kippur.

* In Didyma, an oracle on the coast of Anatolia, south west of Lydian ( Luwian ) Sardis, in which priests from the lineage of the Branchidae received inspiration by drinking from a healing spring located in the temple.

Hadrian's temple had actually been located there because it was the junction of the main north-south road with one of the two main east-west roads and directly adjacent to the forum ( which is now the location of the ( smaller ) Muristan ); the forum itself had been placed, as is traditional in Roman towns, at the junction of the main north-south road with the ( other ) main east-west road ( which is now El-Bazar / David Street ).

After its destruction, scholars used a " daughter library " in a temple known as the Serapeum, located in another part of the city.

The temple is located about 500 m ( 1640 feet ) south-east of the Acropolis, and about 700 m ( 2, 300 feet ) south of the center of Athens, Syntagma Square.

Most pyramids are located near Cairo, with only one royal pyramid being located south of Cairo, at the Abydos temple complex.

These interface machines are connected to the brain through a Datajack generally located at the temple or behind the ear.

Examples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I of Bavaria between 1830 – 1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens Valhalla museum built by August Smith around 1830 to house ship figureheads from shipwrecks that occurred at the Isles of Scilly, England, where the museum is located.

In 1907, the sanctuary of Athena " of the Brazen House " ( Chalkioikos ) was located on the acropolis immediately above the theatre, and though the actual temple is almost completely destroyed, the site has produced the longest extant archaic inscription of Laconia, numerous bronze nails and plates, and a considerable number of votive offerings.

It has been supposed that the sanctuary might have been even more ancient, perhaps a Christian adaption of some already existing temple: the church is in fact located just in front of the sacred campus dedicated to Rediculus, the Roman " God of the Return ".

Temples like Dattadeva temple, which is revered by the people of Maharashtra, is located on the banks of Krishna at Narasoba Waadi and Audumber near Sangli.

* Pattiseema-A village where a Hindu temple is located on a small hill on an island in the river.

Göbekli Tepe, located in southern Turkey, is the oldest-known, existing temple in the world.

The rituals that located and sited the temple were performed by an augur through the observation of the flight of birds or other natural phenomenon.

* Mankhim, the temple of the ethnic group the Rai, located at Aritar, Sikkim.

The small chamber was located below the general floor of the temple and offset to one side, perhaps constructed specifically over the crossing faults.

Note that the large flat expanse was a base for the temple located there

The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, located on the Acropolis in Athens, is one of the most representative symbols of the culture and sophistication of the ancient Greeks.

Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Khmun, later renamed Hermopolis Magna during the Greco-Roman era ( in reference to him through the Greeks ' interpretation that he was the same as their god Hermes ) and Eshmûnên in the Coptic rendering.

Her temple, the Esagila ( from Sumerian E ( temple ) + SAG ( head ) + ILA ( lofty )) was located on the KUR of Eridu, although she also had a temple at Kish.

Inanna's primary temple of worship was the Eanna, located in Uruk ( c. f.

Britomartis was worshipped as Aphaea ( Pausanias, 2. 30. 3 ) primarily on the island of Aegina in Mycenaean times, where the temple " Athena Aphaea " was later located.