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description and Uppsala
His description of the Temple at Uppsala gives some details on the god.
Parallels have been pointed out between the description of Urðarbrunnr at the base of the world tree Yggdrasil and Christian medieval chronicler Adam of Bremen's account of a well at the base of a sacred tree at the Temple at Uppsala, Sweden, found in his 11th century work Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum.

description and temple
"( 10: 13, 14 ) Starting with references to Persia and Greece it, again, culminates in the description of an arrogant king who desecrates the temple, sets up a " desolating abomination ", removes the daily sacrifice, and persecutes those who remain true to the " holy covenant ".
Book 14 contains a unique description of the temple at Rügen Island.
His less practical and more metaphysical Idea del tempio della pittura (" The ideal temple of painting ", Milan, 1590 ) offers a description along the lines of the " four temperaments " theory of the human nature and personality, containing the explanations of the role of individuality in judgment and artistic invention.
Significant passages include the beloved Laus Italiae of Book 2, the prologue description of the temple in Book 3, and the description of the plague at the end of Book 3.
* Automata, a description of machines which enable wonders in temples by mechanical or pneumatical means ( e. g. automatic opening or closing of temple doors, statues that pour wine, etc .).
In the 7th century, Banabhatta, in a description of the dedication of a temple of Chandika, describes a series of human sacrifices ; similarly, in the 9th century, Haribhadra describes the sacrifices to Chandika in Orissa.
Important examples include a piece on Pollius ' temple to Hercules ( 3. 1 ), the aetiology of the tree at Atedius ' villa ( 2. 3 ), an antique statue of Lysippus ' Heracles ( 4. 6 ) and a description of Pollius ' villa at Surrentum ( 2. 2 ).
These circumstances are secondary to the fact of Ixion's primordial act of murder ; it could be accounted for quite differently: in the Greek Anthology ( iii. 12 ), among a collection of inscriptions from a temple in Cyzicus is an epigrammatic description of Ixion slaying Phorbas and Polymelos, who had slain his mother, Megara, the " great one ".
The description offered by Herodotus and several Egyptian texts suggest that water surrounded the temple on three ( out of four ) sides, forming a type of lake known as isheru,
The definitive edition was made by Constantine Cephalas in the 10th century, who added a number of other collections: homoerotic verse collected by Straton of Sardis in the 2nd century AD ; a collection of Christian epigrams found in churches ; a collection of satirical and convivial epigrams collected by Diogenianus ; Christodorus ' description of statues in the Byzantine gymnasium of Zeuxippos ; and a collection of inscriptions from a temple in Cyzicus.
A poem by Du Fu, a prolific Tang Dynasty poet, was written in memory of Zhuge Liang whose legacy of unwavering dedication seems to have been forgotten in Du Fu's generation ( judging by the description of Zhuge Liang ' unkept temple ).
Because of its likehood with Saxo's description of the great image in the temple of Rügen, the statue was immediately proclaimed a representation of Svantevit, although it was clear it could not be the original Svantevit of Rügen.
Misinterpretation of Thiethmar's historic description of Wendish paganism led to confusion between a god, Svarožič, and the city in which his temple stood, Radegast.
The following description is given in an LDS Church publication of what to expect when one enters the temple:
In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, Adam of Bremen provides a description of the temple.
Simek notes, at the same time, similar chains as described by Adam appear on some European churches dating from the 8th to 9th centuries, although the description of the temple chain having been made of gold may be an exaggeration.
" Orchard points out that Adam's description of the temple has often been questioned " on several levels " and that Thietmar of Merseburg produced a considerably less detailed but similar account of sacrifices held in Lejre, Denmark earlier in the 11th century.
The description of the Porticus Liviae follows immediately, and it is probable therefore that the temple was close to or within the porticus, but the small rectangular structure marked on the Marble Plan ( frg.
It contains the description of Somnath temple and its destruction:
The movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., attempted to establish this Zion in the early 1830s, and drafted a detailed plat of Zion based on his view of the biblical description of the New Jerusalem, including plans for a temple.
At the end of the description of each year he reported about plays, temple inaugurations, and other news, in particular about events in the city of Rome.
This depiction matches the description of God as He appeared to Heliodorus in the temple of Jerusalem according to the record of 2nd Maccabees.

description and is
But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.
We divided the country into five regions plus Hawaii and Alaska and in each is included a general description of the area plus specific recommendations of places and events to cover.
A typical `` sonogram '' of a human eye, together with a description of the anatomical parts, is shown in Fig. 5.
Freeman, Cameron and McGhie, in their description of the disturbances of thinking found in chronic schizophrenic patients, say, in regard to condensation, that `` the lack of adequate discrimination between the self and the environment, and the objects contained therein in itself is the prototypical condensation ''.
Finally, information is retrieved from the dictionary as required by stages of the translation process -- the grammatical description for sentence-structure determination, equivalent-choice information for semantic analysis, and target-language equivalents for output construction.
This is a penetrating description of our post-war illusion, which applied to other areas than East Europe.
It is not positivism which has isolated metaphysics from reality by distinguishing between description and prescription.
What follows is therefore a description of three separate undertakings, the new frescoing of the gap, and the successive essays in conservation, with some discussion of problems that arose in connection with each.
A full description of the DIOCS, DTF, and DUF statements is contained in the 7070 Data Processing System Bulletin `` IBM 7070 Input/Output Control System '', form Aj.
There is a complete synonymy at the beginning of each species description.
References are given at the end of each mineral description and a general index is given at the end of each volume.
A Yankee sergeant gave the following description of his sweetheart: `` my girl is none of your one-horse girls.
`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.
That is almost a perfect description of the predicament in which we find ourselves today, isn't it??
Field Marshal Slim is striking in description, amusing in many anecdotes.
Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.
This is an exact description of what Mr. Sansom does.
As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.
Holtorf s description of the archaeologist as a detective is very similar to Christie s Poirot who is hugely observant and is very careful to look at the small details as they often impart the most information.
The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.
In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

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