Depictions of Vishnu are prominent at Angkor Wat, the 12th century temple that was originally dedicated to Vishnu.

Eusebius claims, in his Life of Constantine, that the site of the Church had originally been a Christian place of veneration, but that Hadrian had deliberately covered these Christian sites with earth, and built his own temple on top, due to his hatred for Christianity.

It is originally from the Greek Μουσεῖον ( Mouseion ), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the Muses ( the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts ), and hence a building set apart for study and the arts, especially the Musæum ( institute ) for philosophy and research at Alexandria by Ptolemy I Soter about 280 BCE.

The Christian writer Justin Martyr identified him as Lupercus (" he who wards off the wolf "), the protector of cattle, following Livy, who named his aspect of Inuus as the god who was originally worshiped at the Lupercalia, celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of his temple, February 15, when his priests ( Luperci ) wore goat-skins and hit onlookers with goat-skin belts.

* Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, by Monte Cook, returned the players to Gygax's infamous temple, which Rob Kuntz ( as Robilar ) had originally trashed.

He had funded the restoration of the Jewish temple which had originally been decreed by Cyrus the Great, presented favour towards Greek cults which can be seen in his letter to Gadatas, and supported Elamite priests.

* Basar ( originally, Vyasara )-Sri Gyana Saraswati temple is situated on the banks of Godavari, in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh.

" ( p. 31 ) The Egyptians also, says Rice, were " to alter the orientation of a temple when the star on whose position it had originally been set moved its position as a consequence of the Precession, something which seems to have happened several times during the New Kingdom.

On the east of the town, in the Patturelli property, a temple has been discovered with Oscan votive inscriptions originally thought to be Oscan, now recognized as Etruscan, some of them inscribed upon terracotta tablets, the most famous of which is the Tabula Capuana, conserved in Berlin, still, after more than a century of searching, the second-longest Etruscan text.

3 1? 33 ), its chief temples and statues, its springs, its market-place and gymnasium, its place of sacrifice, the tomb of the hero Aristomenes and the temple of Zeus Ithomatas on the summit of the acropolis with a statue by the famous Argive sculptor Ageladas, originally made for the Messenian helots who had settled at Naupactus at the close of the third Messenian War.

The Samothracians were also originally non-Greek, and are associated with the Trojans and the Pelasgians ; they used a foreign language in the temple through Julius Caesar's time.

It originally guarded the gate to Ebara-dera, a temple in Sakai, Osaka.

One of its more significant features is the temple of Apollo which was originally constructed as early as 7th century BC.

The temple was originally a pyramid with stairways on all four sides, the summit shrine faced towards the rising sun in the east.

The temple was originally covered in painted stucco, with the decoration including the painted image of a jaguar.

He is said to have converted that temple into the Curia Hostilia close to where the Senate originally met in an old Etruscan hut.

Smith's original temple site, a smaller five-acre section within that 66 acres ( containing stones originally placed by Smith to mark the corners of his intended structure ), is currently owned by the Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ), which hopes to build a temple of its own sometime in the future.

The remains of the great temple and its premises are displayed as an open-air museum near the great colossus of Rameses II, which originally marked the southern axis of the temple.

These stones decorated with reliefs from the Amarna period, originally from the ancient temple of Aten in Memphis, had almost certainly been reused in the foundations of another ruined monument.

The basalt image originally was stationed at Medinet-Habu, as part of the cultic celebration of the Pharaonic " Sed-Festival ," but was transferred at some point to Herakleopolis and the temple of Herishef.

During the Greek dominance in Egypt, note was made of a temple for Maahes that was an auxiliary facility to a large temple to Sekhmet at Taremu in the delta region ( likely a temple for Bast originally ), a city which the Greeks called Leontopolis, where by that time, an enclosure was provided to house lions.

This head probably came from a temple statue of Amasis II.

Cameron also points out that whether he refers to Plato or to Crantor, the statement does not support conclusions such as Otto Muck's " Crantor came to Sais and saw there in the temple of Neith the column, completely covered with hieroglyphs, on which the history of Atlantis was recorded.

Aelia came from Hadrian's nomen gentile, Aelius, while Capitolina meant that the new city was dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus, to whom a temple was built on the site of the former Jewish temple, the Temple Mount.

From Tell al-Ubaid in 1919 and 1923 – 1924, directed by H. R. Hall came the bronze furnishings of a Sumerian temple, including life-sized lions and a panel featuring the lion-headed eagle Indugud.

Here the nymphs came to converse with Dryope, who had become a priestess of the temple, but one day Apollo again returned in the form of a serpent and coiled around her while she stood by a spring.

In the Asclepieion of Epidaurus, three large marble boards dated to 350 BC preserve the names, case histories, complaints, and cures of about 70 patients who came to the temple with a problem and shed it there.

The first Jain temple to be built outside India was constructed and consecrated in the 1960s in Mombasa, Kenya by the local Gujarati Jain community, although Jainism in the West mostly came about after the Oswal and Jain diaspora spread to the West in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Musashi broke his previous habit of arriving late, and came to the temple hours early.

The stele almost certainly did not originate in the town of Rashid ( Rosetta ) where it was found, but more likely came from a temple site farther inland, possibly the royal town of Sais.

She visited the Bajoran temple on the station where she was attacked and killed by an alien possessing the body of Gul Dukat who came aboard the station to destroy an Orb of the Prophet.

In the Asclepieion of Epidaurus, three large marble boards dated to 350 BCE preserve the names, case histories, complaints, and cures of about 70 patients who came to the temple with a problem and shed it there.

To the temple came the poor farmer to borrow seed, grain, or supplies for harvesters, etc .— advances that he repaid without interest.

The Gold Rush town of Weaverville on the Trinity River today retains the oldest continuously used Taoist temple in California, a legacy of Chinese miners who came.

When Patel himself came down with the disease, he immediately sent his family to safety, left his home and moved into an isolated house in Nadiad ( by other accounts, Patel spent this time in a dilapidated temple ); there, he recovered slowly.

Before the opening of the Entrances, access on land was so difficult that the Azuma Kagami reports that Hōjō Masako came back to Kamakura from a visit to Sōtōzan temple in Izu bypassing by boat the impassable Inamuragasaki cape and arriving in Yuigahama.

Aelia came from Hadrian's nomen gentile, Aelius, while Capitolina meant that the new city was dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus, to whom a temple was built on the site of the former second Jewish temple, the Temple Mount.

The Book of Chronicles gives a lengthier account and 2 Chronicles 35: 20 states that when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against the Babylonians at Carchemish on the Euphrates River and that King Josiah was fatally wounded by an Egyptian archer.

Deposits of votive objects ( favissae ), removed from the ancient temple from time to time as new ones came in and occupied all the available space, have been found, and considerable remains of buildings belonging to the Vicus Dianae ( among them a triumphal arch and some baths, also a hail with frescoes, representing the goddess herself ready for the chase ) still exist.

It has perished, but late copies exist, of which the most faithful is in the Vatican Museums. Marble lion on display in the British Museum, London In a temple enclosure Newton discovered a fine seated statue of Demeter, which he sent back to the British Museum, and about three miles south-east of the city he came upon the ruins of a splendid tomb, and a colossal figure of a lion carved out of one block of Pentelic marble, ten feet in length and six in height, which has been supposed to commemorate the great naval victory, the Battle of Cnidus in which Conon defeated the Lacedaemonians in 394 BC.

Through Alcmaeon, the son of Eriphyle, the necklace came into the hands of Arsinoe ( named Alphesiboea in some versions ), next into those of the sons of Phegeus, Pronous and Agenor, and lastly into those of the sons of Alcmaeon, Amphoterus and Acarnan, who dedicated it in the temple of Athena Pronoea at Delphi.

In the Asclepieion of Epidaurus, three large marble boards dated to 350 BC preserve the names, case histories, complaints, and cures of about 70 patients who came to the temple with a problem and shed it there.

Needy supplicants who came to it were supplied with food from the resources of the temple.