One of the film's most celebrated examples of this technique is a baroque image of Jesus that is compared, through a series of shots, to Hindu deities, the Buddha, Aztec gods, and finally a primitive idol in order to suggest the sameness of all religions ; the idol is then compared with military regalia to suggest the linking of patriotism and religious fervour by the state.

A section of Buddhists believes that the tooth relic of Buddha is kept inside the Jagannath idol at the navel circle.

There is also a Buddha idol and a 3 ft idol in the village of Thiyaganur on the outskirts of the Aragalur.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

According to the midrash Canticles Rabbah, it was Ezekiel whom the three pious men, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah ( also called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the Bible ) asked for advice as to whether they should resist Nebuchadnezzar's command and choose death by fire rather than worship his idol.

The first, the ' little tin idol ', was used from the inception of the Cup in 1871 – 72 until it was stolen from a Birmingham shoe shop window belonging to William Shillcock while held by Aston Villa on 11 September 1895, and was never seen again.

" In the story, a devil is hiding within a pagan idol, and bound by Bartholomew's spiritual powers to acknowledge himself and confess, the devil refers to Jesus as the one which " made war on Hel our queen " ( Old Norse heriaði a Hel drottning vara ).

According to the Five Books of Moses, Abraham is revered as the one who overcame the idol worship of his family and surrounding people by recognizing the Hebrew God and establishing a covenant with him and creating the foundation of what has been called by scholars " Ethical Monotheism ".

In it the word eikon is used for everything from man being made in the divine image to the " molten idol " placed by Manasses in the Temple.

This accusation of idol worship levied against the Templars has also led to the modern belief by some that the Templars practiced witchcraft.

and he is invoked against storm and lightning and represented by: Vine and grapes ; a fallen idol beneath broken column ; a scourge ; a stake and his severed head.

In their wake, pop music filled the radio waves, dominated by teen idol crooners who sang cleansed formulas like those about the twist dance craze and " death discs " like " Teen Angel " and " Endless Sleep ".

Rashi's father, Yitzhak, a poor vintner, once found a precious jewel and was approached by non-Jews who wished to buy it to adorn their idol.

Having discovered the entrance, Solomon found an idol inside that had in its mouth a silver tablet saying in Greek ( a language not thought by modern scholars to have existed 1000 years before the time of Solomon ) that the statue was of Shaddad, the son of ' Ad, and that it had reigned over a million cities, rode on a million horses, had under it a million vassals and slew a million warriors, yet it could not resist the angel of death.

Saul tries to have David killed during the night, but Michal helps him escape and tricks his pursuers by using a household idol to make it seem that David is still in bed.

Raimi occasionally appears on-screen in his own movies, usually in similar fashion to the cameos made by his idol Alfred Hitchcock: A silhouette behind a projection screen ( Spider-Man, in the wrestling scene ), a passer-by with some kind of physical interaction with the film's protagonist ( Spider-Man 2, as the student whose bookbag hits Peter Parker in the back of the head ), a hitchhiking fisherman accompanied by Robert Tapert in The Evil Dead.

After listening to the nearly endless bickering and childish jealousy of a young man and wife ( Tim and Sally Willows ), an ancient Egyptian idol decides to play a trick on the two by causing them to switch bodies.

His friend Johnny Depp, a teen idol at the end of the 1980s due primarily to his work on the hit TV series 21 Jump Street, was cast in the title role of Edward, who was the creation of an eccentric and old-fashioned inventor ( played by Vincent Price in one of his last screen appearances ).

The WHA All-Stars were coached by Jacques Demers, who put Gretzky on a line with his boyhood idol Gordie Howe and Howe's son, Mark.

But a popular idol nearly always suffers by removal from immediate contact with the popular sympathy, be the motives for removal what they may.

Jacob continues by teaching about the various sins, such as lying, murdering, whoredoms, idol worship.

The film charted the pair's attempt to become professional DJs by travelling to the nightclubs of Ibiza and pestering their idol, the DJ Eyeball Paul, played by Rhys Ifans, while gaining love and losing their virginity.

With " a classic profile that gained him matinee idol status amongst the film-going public ", he was sought out on the strength of a publicity photograph by the Swiss film director Louis Mercanton.

The temple's idol of Lord Siva was installed by Lord Srirama.

Like literal adultery it does include the idea of someone blinded by infatuation, in this case for an idol: ' How I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts.

In the United Kingdom, Divine would sing his hit " You Think You're A Man " – a song which he had dedicated to his parents – on BBC television show Top of the Pops, and also gained a devout follower in the form of Briton Mitch Whitehead, a man who would declare himself to be Divine's " number 1 fan ", tattooing himself with images of his idol and eventually aiding Bernard Jay in setting up for Divine's show onstage.

The Old Testament restrictions against the production of graven ( an idol or fetish carved in wood or stone ) images ( see also Idolatry and Christianity ) may also have constrained Christians from producing art.

In Vie et mort de l ' image ( Life and Death of Image, 1995 ), an attempted history of gaze, where he distinguished three regimes of the images ( icon, idol and vision ), he explicitly prevented misunderstandings by differentiating mediology from a simple sociology of mass media.

It was forbidden to look upon images ( Tosefta to Talmud Shabbat ( Talmud ) 17. 1 ), and even thinking of idolatrous worship was prohibited ( Talmud Berakhot 12b ); if one saw a place where an idol had once stood, he was commanded to utter a special prayer ( Talmud Ber.

He built a northern temple with calf-like idol images that were condemned by the Judeans of Judah.

They offered oils, incenses, and other aromatic herbs to his idol / images, slaves and pigs was also sacrificed in his honor.

That Micah, who worshipped Yahweh, used the Teraphim as an idol, and that Laban regarded the Teraphim as representing his gods, is thought to indicate that they were evidently images of Yahweh.

While today it is generally accepted that Norman Rockwell established the best-known visual images of Americana, in many cases they are derivative of Leyendecker's work, or reinterpretations of visual themes established by Rockwell's idol.

One morning, we discovered not only that the pennies were missing from the idol but that a cigarette had been stubbed out in its lap.

The Templars were also known to possess the head of Saint Euphemia of Chalcedon, and the subject of relics came up during the Inquisition of the Templars, as several trial documents refer to the worship of an idol of some type, referred to in some cases as a cat, a bearded head, or in some cases as Baphomet.

Sosa wore the iconic # 21 with the Cubs in honor of his childhood idol Roberto Clemente Also in 1998, Sosa's 416 total bases were the most in a single season since Stan Musial's 429 in.

Just before his retirement, Samuel gathered the people to an assembly at Gilgal, and gives them a farewell speech, in which he emphasised how prophets and judges were more important than kings, how kings should be held to account, and how the people should not fall into idol worship, or worship of Asherah or of Baal ; Samuel threatened that God would subject the people to foreign invaders should they disobey.

This site was infamous for idol worship throughout the First Temple period, until king of Judah, Josiah, finally destroyed " the high places that were before Jerusalem, to the right of Har HaMashchit ..."( II Kings 23: 13 )

Relations between the Spaniards and their hosts were uneasy, especially given Cortés ' repeated insistence that the Aztecs desist from idol worship and human sacrifice ; in order to ensure their own safety, the Spaniards took the Aztec king Moctezuma hostage.

Burt Lancaster's fans were not thrilled with their idol either, " finding the film too static and talky ".

Quails were sacrificed to the idol and their blood spilt before it and copal was burnt in his honour.

In the first few seasons of the twist, only one idol was ever in play, but in Survivor: Fiji, Survivor: China, and from Survivor: Tocantins to Survivor: One World, two hidden immunity idols were made available to the players ( one located at each camp ).

* In both Panama and Cook Islands, the player with the idol was required to show the idol after the votes were read to become immune.

* From Fiji onwards, the player with the idol was required to show it after the votes were cast, but before they were read.

** In season 11 ( Raja Ampat ), two new rules were introduced: the hidden immunity idol, known in its appearance in the US version, and a new rule called the " vote noir " ( black vote ).

A rabbinical tradition attributed to the Yalkout of Rabbi Simeon, says that the idol was hollow and was divided into seven compartments, in one of which they put flour, in the second turtle-doves, in the third a ewe, in the fourth a ram, in the fifth a calf, in the sixth an ox, and in the seventh a child, which were all burned together by heating the statue inside.

In performance, The Orioles were a phenomenon, with girls in the audiences screaming, fainting, and attempting to reach their idol Sonny Til in particular.

The medieval Christian belief that Muslims were idolatrous ( that is, worshipped Mohammed as a rival to God / Allah ) passed into the French language with the word mahomet or mahommet, meaning an idol.

The claims of an idol named Baphomet were unique to the Inquisition of the Templars.

" Medieval Christians falsely believed that Muslims were idolatrous and worshipped Muhammad as a god, with mahomet becoming mammet in English, meaning an idol or false god.

Following Nicolai, he argued, using as archaeological evidence " Baphomets " faked by earlier scholars and literary evidence such as the Grail romances, that the Templars were Gnostics and the " Templars ' head " was a Gnostic idol called Baphomet.

There were many " pagan " Arabian practices and traditions such as blood-feuds, absolute allegiance to the tribe and cults of idol worship which were banned in the universal perspective of Islam.

Barrichello was rather worried when rumours were going around saying that he would lose his seat to the young Bruno Senna, the nephew of Barrichello's friend, idol and mentor Ayrton Senna, but Brawn decided to choose Barrichello to partner Jenson Button in 2009.

The New York Times wrote " the chemistry between Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder, who were both together in real life at the time ( 1989 – 1993 ), gave the film teen idol potential, drawing younger audiences.