According to church tradition, newly ordained priests are given new names, and Soghomon was renamed Komitas ( named after the seventh-century Armenian catholicos who was also a hymn writer ).

Her Lydian name was Kuvav or Kufav which Ionian Greeks transcribed Kybêbê, not Kybele ; Jan Bremmer notes in this context the seventh-century Semonides of Amorgos, who calls one of her Hellene followers a kybêbos, and he observes that in the following century she has been further Hellenized by Hipponax as " Kybêbê, daughter of Zeus ".

St Augustine of Canterbury in seventh-century England and St. Boniface in eighth-century Germany fell into this category.

In the late 880s or early 890s, Alfred issued a long domboc or law code, consisting of his " own " laws followed by a code issued by his late seventh-century predecessor King Ine of Wessex.

The same was said of the seventh-century Pope Benedict II, but nothing certain is known about a kinship between the two of them.

It is in this period that the earliest clear monotheistic statements appear in the Bible, for example in the apparently seventh-century Deuteronomy 4: 35, 39, 1 Samuel 2: 2, 2 Samuel 7: 22, 2 Kings 19: 15, 19 (= Isaiah 37: 16, 20 ), and Jeremiah 16: 19, 20 and the sixth-century portion of Isaiah 43: 10 – 11, 44: 6, 8, 45: 5 – 7, 14, 18, 21, and 46: 9.

West ascribes a late seventh-century date as the earliest.

This could have been an obligation placed on Cuthred by Mercia ; earlier kings had similarly assisted Penda and Wulfhere, two strong seventh-century Mercian rulers.

It is possible that we do not have Ine ’ s laws in their original seventh-century form.

A late seventh-century hagiography of Pope Gregory I claims that Paulinus was the stranger in the vision ; if true, it might suggest that Paulinus spent some time at Rædwald's court, although Bede does not mention any such visit.

Two graves from a well-preserved sixth and seventh-century Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Finglesham have yielded a bronze pendant and a gilt buckle with designs that are related to each other and may be symbolic of religious activity involving the Germanic deity Woden.

This tree is mentioned in the seventh-century literature of Tamil popularly known as the Tevaram.

In his analysis of the Gallican Mass, Duchesne assumes that the seventh-century Bobbia Sacramentary ( Bibl.

The form has roots in seventh-century Arabia, and gained prominence in the thirteenth-and fourteenth-century thanks to such Persian poets as Rumi and Hafiz and later due to Indian poets such as Mirza Ghalib.

Wigstan, his grandson, was later recorded as a descendant of Penda of Mercia, so it is possible that Wiglaf was descended from Penda, one of the most powerful seventh-century kings of Mercia.

The kingdoms of Britain in the late seventh-century.

A seventh-century text from China and Japan ’ s early twelfth-century Konjaku monogatari-shure count this story, while other “ scattered accounts ” of blind lute-laying priests can be found in Tang-period volumes from the Chinese mainland.

Descended from the spoken Arabic brought to Egypt during the seventh-century AD Muslim conquest, its development was influenced by the indigenous Coptic of pre-Islamic Egypt, and later by other languages such as Turkish / Ottoman Turkish, Italian, French and English.

Vatsraja sought to capture Kannauj, which had been the capital of the seventh-century empire of Harsha.

( Possibly the legend of Helgi originally referred to a different King Granmar, as it seems to be set in the fifth century and Ingjald and the rest are clearly seventh-century.

Darwish believes Islam is an authoritarian ideology that is attempting to impose on the world the norms of seventh-century culture of the Arabian Peninsula.

Strong-minded and independent, Fidelma often chafes at the structure of the religious life ; she seems to have become a religieuse more as a career move ( monasteries were the intellectual centers of seventh-century Ireland ) than as an expression of Christian devotion.

Opponents of the Takfiris often view them as modern-day analogues of the Khawarij, a seventh-century off-shoot Islamic sect which waged war against the Caliphate.

The stone coffers of the ancient Greeks and Romans are the earliest surviving examples, but a seventh-century BC Etruscan chamber tomb in the necropolis of San Giuliano, which is cut in soft tufa-like stone reproduces a ceiling with beams and cross-beams lying on them, with flat panels fillings the lacunae.

The motif itself originated much earlier, with significant seventh-century Coptic examples at Wadi Natrun in Egypt.

Legend has it that Tirumular was a travelling Shaiva saint and scholar from Kailash who used his yogic powers to transmigrate into the body of a southern cowherd, Mulan.

The Shaiva temples have a Shiva linga, symbol of fertility and the universal symbol of Shiva, in the shrine.

According to Saiva Siddhanta, which was for many centuries the dominant school of Shaiva theology and liturgy across the Indian subcontinent ( and beyond it in Cambodia ), the linga is the ideal substrate in which the worshipper should install and worship the five-faced and ten-armed Sadāśiva, the form of Shiva who is the focal divinity of that school of Shaivism.

According to Shaiva guru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami ( 1927 – 2001 ), Ardhanarishvara signifies that the great Shiva is " All, inseparable from His energy " ( i. e. his Shakti ) and is beyond gender.

It incorporates the teachings of the Shaiva nayanars and espouses the belief that Shiva is Brahman and his infinite love is revealed in the divine acts of the creation, preservation and destruction of the universe, and in the liberation of the soul.

The Hindu caves contain rock cut stone sculptures, representing the Shaiva Hindu sect, dedicated to the god Shiva.

• The abundance of Shiva temples here clearly indicates that the place was a great Shaiva centre in ancient times.

The existing triad has been hypothesized alternatively as Vaishnavite trinity of Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra, Shaiva triad of Samkarsana Balaram as Shiva, Krishna and Ekanamsa, Buddhist triratna, or Savara triad of Ramma, Bimma and Sitaboi.

Being a dualistic philosophy, the goal of Shaiva Siddhanta is to become an ontologically distinct Shiva ( through Shiva's grace ).

The Shaiva Siddhanta goal of becoming an ontologically distinct Shiva ( through Shiva's grace ) was replaced by recognizing oneself as Shiva who, in Kashmir Saivism's monism, is the entirety of the universe.

On this mountain he is said to have found verses inscribed on a rock, the Shiva Sutras, which outline the teachings of Shaiva monism.

Shaiva scriptures narrate that god Shiva assumed the Avatar ( incarnation ) of Sharabha to tame Narasimha-the fierce man-lion avatar of Vishnu worshipped by Vaishnava sect-into a normal pleasant form representing harmony.

It is believed that Bhadrakāli was a local deity, which was assimilated into the mainstream Hinduism, particularly into Shaiva mythology.

There was no grouping of the mystics into Shaiva and Vaishnava devotees as in the south.

It is believed that Lord Basava was born into a Shaiva Brahmin called madarasa and Madalambike family residing in a small town, Basavana Bagewadi in Bijapur district of northern Karnataka state, India in 1134 AD.

A Shaiva tradition declares that a rat, by coming into contact with a lamp ( and thus making it burn brighter ) in a Siva temple was born subsequently as the famous emperor, Mahabali ( P. 180 Philosophical Series by University of Madras, 1960 ).