Describing the first reason, he “ portrays himself in the guise of a wandering minstrel, his journey just one in a series of adventures .” The second reason is more religious, explaining in his Vita S. Martini that he took this route to worship at the shrine of St Martin in Tours, visiting other shrines as he went.

An engraved bronze cup from Lorestān at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran, portrays a double ney ( end-blown reed pipes ), chang ( harp ), and dayereh in a shrine or court processional, as similarly documented in Egypt, Elam, and the Persian province of Babylonia where music was arranged for performance by large orchestral ensembles.

The presence of copper rosettes indicate that a funeral pall was draped on a frame associated with the shrine, also comparable to Tutankhamun's shrines .< ref name =" bell p. 129 "> Bell, M. R., < cite >" An Armchair Excavation of KV 55 ", JARCE 27 ( 1990 )</ cite > p. 129 </ ref > However, the decoration and inscriptions on the shrine are markedly different from those of Tutankhamun: the decoration was dominated by large offering scenes rather than a multitude of smaller mythological scenes ; the text was far more brief, and seems primarily concerned with titles, names, and the shrine's dedication, rather than with excerpts from funerary books ; and the interior of the shrine was uninscribed and undecorated .< ref > Bell, M. R., < cite >" An Armchair Excavation of KV 55 ", JARCE 27 ( 1990 )</ cite > p. 120, 129 </ ref >

The line between a temple and a shrine in Taoism is not fully defined ; shrines are usually smaller versions of larger Taoist temples or small places in a home where a yin-yang emblem is placed among peaceful settings to encourage meditation and study of Taoist texts and principles.

During the Japanese Occupation, Japanese troops built Syonan Jinja, a Shinto shrine ( Syonan-to was the Occupation name for Singapore ), similar to the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan but of a smaller size, at Bukit Timah.

Located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, the shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines.

The village of Crespi d ' Adda, built up for Cristoforo Benigno Crespi, is home to a smaller version of the shrine.

The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari which is 233 metres above sea-level, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines.

He learns from travelers that sweets in the Zazen Town shrine can make a person smaller.

Many smaller, opulent shrines honor gods such as Chauntea, Talos, and Umberlee ; one lone shrine is Ilmater's.

In the main shrine in front of the Reclining Buddha there are smaller shrines of different Buddhas and popular Thai deities.

A similar arrangement is also seen in the medieval temples, in which the central shrine housing the principal Deity is surrounded by four smaller shrines containing the figures of the other deities.

The Fushimi shrine itself contains smaller shrines, including the Byakko-sha (" white fox shrine ") and the Myōbu-sha (" court lady shrine ").

It is, however, now assumed by Johannes Fried, that the ' Vita ' was not written by Canaparius, but was written down in Liège, with the oldest traceable version having been at the imperial Adalbert shrine at Aachen.

Finally, it is said that Philoctetes received his terrible wound on the island of Chryse, when he unknowingly trespassed into the shrine of the nymph after whom the island was named ( this is the version in the extant play by Sophocles ).

* Mikoshi Photos of Shinto shrine ( English version )

* Most of the first ten minutes of the film, a section showing Joan praying in the Domrémy shrine, followed by a family dinner and conversation which leads to the mention of the dream, are not in the edited version.

He gave an enlarged version of the history to the Kitano shrine in 1223.

On the Greek mainland, at Olympia, an archaic shrine with an inner cella sacred to the serpent-savior of the city ( Sosipolis ) and to Eileithyia was seen by the traveller Pausanias in the 2nd century AD ( Greece vi. 20. 1 – 3 ); in it a virgin-priestess cared for a serpent that was " fed " on honeyed barley-cakes and water — an offering suited to Demeter.

A large granite offering table on behalf of Amenemhat I mentioned the erection by the king of a shrine to the god Ptah, master of Truth.

Guibert's family made an offering to a shrine of the Virgin Mary, and promised that if Guibert survived, he would be dedicated to a clerical life.

Some ceremonies were processions that started at, visited, or ended with a temple or shrine, where a ritual object might be stored and brought out for use, or where an offering would be deposited.

* As a votive offering to a shrine ( or specifically to its patron gods ).

Thus a person about to swim in a river, for example, would say a prayer to the river-god, or make an offering to that god's shrine, to avoid the chance of drowning.

In the offering known as Koll beaten rice, plantains and jaggery are placed on a plantain leaf at the shrine and the Muppen, after prayers, distributes them.

In such centres, separate places outside the precincts of the shrine are selected for blood offering and for the preparation of the traditional Kalam known as Vatakkanvathil.

Clay seals with Peribsen ´ s serekh name on them were found near the eastern entrance and inside a destroyed offering shrine.

Legend has it that he was very fond of laksa, a local specialty and even today devotees bring a bowl of laksa as an offering to his shrine.

Lest the people should be reduced in the offering of their money, the shrine was pulled down and destroyed.

Tani is mentioned on a door of a shrine in Avaris and on an offering table, Ziwat is mentioned on a bowl.

Another scene shows a pharaoh offering incense before two pavilions, each of which holds a sacred barque and shrine.

Stones played an important part in the cult of the god, especially in the oracular shrine of Delphi ( Omphalos ).

At both Chalcis and Athens Plutarch tells us that there was an Amazoneum or shrine of Amazons that implied the presence of both tombs and cult.

The Romans built a shrine to the mythical Greek cult figure Adonis on the site of the Nativity.

In Rome the cult of Diana should have been almost as old as the city itself as Varro mentions her in the list of deities to whom king Titus Tatius vowed a shrine.

This cult attracted such throngs of pilgrims that the earlier shrine was rebuilt as the great Basilica from the mid-13th century, one of the finest Gothic churches in the south of France.

The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings, but none were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England.

Despite its name, both the shrine and the cult originally belonged to Helen ; Menelaus was added later as her husband.

However, some modern scholars dispute this argument and insist that the cult of Adonis-Tammuz originated the shrine and that it was the Christians who took it over, substituting the worship of their God.

Modern mythologists, however, reverse the supposition, insisting that the cult of Adonis-Tammuz originated the shrine and that it was the Christians who took it over, substituting the worship of their own God.

In reading the account, the primitive aspect of the cult at Amathus would appear to be much older than the Athenian-sanctioned shrine of Aphrodite, who has assumed Ariadne ( hagne, " sacred ") as an epithet at Amathus.

Among those who visited this shrine to be initiated into the island cult were Lysander of Sparta, Philip II of Macedon and Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, father-in-law of Julius Caesar.

Control of her Aventine cult seems to have been contested at various times during the Mid Republican era ; a dedication or rededication of the temple in 123 BC by the Vestal Virgin Licinia, with the gift of an altar, shrine and couch, was immediately annulled as unlawful by the Roman Senate ; Licinia herself was later charged with inchastity, and executed.

According to tradition his cult was said to have been introduced by the Sabines and perhaps king Titus Tatius dedicated a small shrine.

* The chief sculptor Userhat who lived at the end of the 18th dyansty / beginning 19th dynasty mentions " causing cult statues to rest in their shrine ".

This worship of Atargatis was immortalized in De Dea Syria which has traditionally been attributed to Lucian of Samosata, a native of Commagene, who gave a full description of the religious cult of the shrine and the tank of sacred fish of Atargatis, of which Aelian also relates marvels.

He attacked a " perceived moral decline and political weakness " in the Arabian Peninsula and condemned what he perceived as idolatry, the popular cult of saints, and shrine and tomb visitation.

Germanus and Lupus then visited the shrine of Saint Alban, promoting his cult.

By a decree of the oracle of Dodona, which required the Athenians to grant land for a shrine or temple her cult was introduced into Attica by immigrant Thracian residents, and, though Thracian and Athenian processions remained separate, both cult and festival became so popular that in Plato's time ( ca.

" During his stay at Reigate, Foxe helped suppress a cult that had arisen around the shrine of the Virgin Mary at Ouldsworth, which had been credited with miraculous healing powers.

The name refers to a particular hill in southern Mexico which is believed to have been an important shrine in the jaguar cult throughout several eras of Mesoamerican history.

This indicates the importance of the cult of Saint Gwynllyw and the wealth of his shrine as stone buildings were unusual in Wales at this point.

His cult spread rapidly far and wide throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, as is witnessed by the countless churches and monasteries dedicated to him in France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Great Britain ; by the numerous manuscripts in prose and verse commemorating his virtues and miracles ; and especially by the vast concourse of pilgrims who from all Europe flocked to his shrine.

By the end of the First Temple Period, Jerusalem was the sole acting religious shrine in the kingdom and a centre of regular pilgrimage ; a fact which archaeologists generally view as being corroborated by the evidence, though there remained a more personal cult involving Asherah figures, which are found spread throughout the land right up to the end of this era.

Her shrine was reinstated by Queen Mary in 1558, but was later desecrated by James Calfhill, the Calvinist canon of the church, who was intent on suppressing her cult.