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The cult centers of Apollo in Greece, Delphi and Delos, date from the 8th century BCE.
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The temples of Hera in the two main centers of her cult, the Heraion of Samos and the Heraion of Argos in the Argolid, were the very earliest monumental Greek temples constructed, in the 8th century BC.
It is theorized that this displacement happened through the merging of cults from the various cult centers as Egyptian religion became more standardized.
The cult of Isis became very prominent in late antiquity, when it began to absorb the cults of many other goddesses with strong cult centers.
" When she was seven years old, her parents joined a " cult group ", the Moral Re-Armament ( MRA ), in which her family remained involved for fifteen years, living in communal centers.
Both deities had several cult centers in each region, and Horus is often associated with Lower Egypt and Set with Upper Egypt.
The major centers of Helen's cult were in Laconia.
In most cases, the votive stones and altars are not found singularly, but rather in groups around temple buildings and cult centers.
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During his reign he continued the practice of directly appointing nomarchs, and undercut the autonomy of local priesthoods by building at cult centers throughout Egypt.
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Many cities in the Ancient Near East were home to the cult centers of certain deities, such as Marduk in Babylon or Ptah in Memphis.
This sanctuary, dedicated to Isis and her consort Serapis, became one of the most famous cult centers of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.
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Aramazd's main sanctuary was one of the principal cult centers of Ancient Armenia.
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cult and Apollo
However the Indo-European component of Apollo, does not explain his strong relation with omens, exorcisms, and with the oracular cult.
All these functions, including the function of the healer-god Paean, who seems to have Mycenean origin, are fused in the cult of Apollo.
Unusually among the Olympic deities, Apollo had two cult sites that had widespread influence: Delos and Delphi.
In cult practice, Delian Apollo and Pythian Apollo ( the Apollo of Delphi ) were so distinct that they might both have shrines in the same locality.
It had a large temple of the cult of Apollo of Delphi on a hilltop overlooking the port, and a temple of the cult of Artemis of Ephesus at the other end of the city.
But Apollo, who had Delphinios as one of his cult epithets, leapt into the ship in the form of a dolphin ( delphinos ).
There was a thriving cult of Apollo on Ceos too, including a temple at Carthaea, a training ground for choruses where, according to Athenaeus, Bacchylides's uncle, Simonides, had been a teacher in his early years.
* Carnus, seer of Apollo who established the cult of Apollo Carneus among the Dorians ; see also Carnea.
The pursuit of a local nymph by an Olympian god, part of the archaic adjustment of religious cult in Greece, was given an arch anecdotal turn in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where the god's infatuation was caused by an arrow from Eros, who wanted to make Apollo pay for making fun of his archery skills and to demonstrate the power of love's arrow.
The worshippers of Apollo Soranus, after his cult had been subsumed by Apollo, were called Hirpi Sorani (" wolves of Soranus ", from Sabine hirpus " wolf ").
* Cynthia or Mount Cynthus: A rocky height on Delos associated with the cult of Apollo.
Gagé though sees an ancient, preclassical Greek mythic substratum to which belong Deucalion and Pyrrha and the Hyperborean origins of the Delphic cult of Apollo as well as the Argonauts.
The presence of Greeks on the Italian peninsula from the beginning of the historical period influenced Roman culture, introducing some religious practices that became as fundamental as the cult of Apollo.
The presence of Greeks on the Italian peninsula from the beginning of the historical period influenced Roman culture, introducing some religious practices that became as fundamental as the cult of Apollo.
The cult of Asclepius at Epidaurus is attested in the 6th century BC, when the older hill-top sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas was no longer spacious enough.
The three-chamber tomb was inscribed with the name of the deceased for whom it was originally built, Aranth Spurianas or Arath Spuriana, and also depicts Achilles killing the Trojan prince Troilus, along with indications of Apollo cult.
Tenedos was also a major location of the Sminthean cult of Apollo around the 8th century BC, a distinct worship of Apollo ( possibly with origins in Crete ) that often depicts him with mice and as the controller of plague.
These depictions represent Muslims worshipping Muhammad ( Mahomet, Mahound ) as a god and depict them worshiping various deities in the form of idols ( cult images ), ranging from Apollo to Lucifer, but their chief deity was typically named Termagant.
cult and Greece
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.
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.
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.
Pausanias, in travelling around Greece, attributed to Daedalus numerous archaic wooden cult figures ( see xoana ) that impressed him: " All the works of this artist, though somewhat uncouth to look at, nevertheless have a touch of the divine in them.
During the Roman periods it was renowned as the largest temple in Greece and housed one of the largest cult statues in the ancient world.
Some scholars connect Astarte with the Minoan snake goddess, whose cult as Aphrodite spread from Creta to Greece.
Conversely, Walter Burkert suggests that the Hellene cult worship of Poseidon as a horse god may be connected to the introduction of the horse and war-chariot from Anatolia to Greece around 1600 BC.
Despite his importance to the myths and imaginative literature of ancient Greece, the religious cult of Prometheus during the Archaic and Classical periods seems to have been limited.
The Minoan " cult of the tree " appears also in Mycenean seals and jewellerry, however we don ’ t know if this cult in Greece was similar with the Minoan.
This campus hosted a sanctuary for the cult of the deity that received devotion by travellers before their departure, especially by those who were going to face long and dangerous journeys to far places like Egypt, Greece or the East.
The Eleusinian Mysteries () were initiation ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in ancient Greece.
She may have been Phrygia's State deity ; her Phrygian cult was adopted and adapted by Greek colonists of Asia Minor, and spread from there to mainland Greece and its more distant western colonies from around the 6th century BCE.
Early Roman initiates at Eleusis in Greece included Sulla and Cicero ; thereafter many Emperors were initiated, including Hadrian, who founded an Eleusinian cult centre in Rome itself.
It was the most renowned cult image of Athens, considered one of the greatest achievements of the most acclaimed sculptor of ancient Greece.
The Greek counterpart of Spes was Elpis, who by contrast had no formal cult in Greece.
The Ennead proved to be a much more successful identity and the compound triad of Mut, Hathor, and Isis, became known as Isis alone — a cult that endured into the 7th century A. D. and spread to Greece, Rome, and Britain.
* Parnassus: A mountain associated with the cult of Dionysus ( as practised by the Maenads ) overlooking Delphi, one of the most sacred sites in ancient Greece.
In ancient Greece, a city or sanctuary might claim to possess, without necessarily displaying, the remains of a venerated hero as a part of hero cult.
Elsewhere in Greece, the cult of Bendis did not catch on.
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