Footwear is also stored around the entrance area, as this is not allowed within Hindu temples, as a sign of respect.

livestock ( cattle, sheep and goats ) of the state was centralized at Drehem and redistributed to the temples, its officials and the royal palaces of Sumer.

The decree records that Ptolemy V gave a gift of silver and grain to the temples.

Divisions of labour between men, women, and animals that are still in place in Indonesian rice cultivation, were carved into relief friezes on the ninth century Prambanan temples in Central Java: a water buffalo attached to a plough ; women planting seedlings and pounding grain ; and a man carrying sheaves of rice on each end of a pole across his shoulders ( pikulan ).

While Odin states that Vafþrúðnir knows all the fates of the gods, Odin asks Vafþrúðnir " from where Njörðr came to the sons of the Æsir ," that Njörðr rules over quite a lot of temples and hörgrs ( a type of Germanic altar ), and further adds that Njörðr was not raised among the Æsir.

The temple it originally came from was probably closed around AD 392 when Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius I ordered the closing of all non-Christian temples of worship.

Since the original design came from wooden temples and the triglyphs were real heads of wooden beams, every column had to bear a beam which lay across the centre of the column.

It came to an end when the emperor Constantine in the 4th century destroyed the goddess temples and replaced them with Christianity.

Participants in his Grecian cult in Both Lands Egypt and those who are in the temples of Egypt came here from their own districts and are given cultivated land to make their life good beyond measure.

Palaces and city walls came much later after temples in the Early Dynastic Period.

Increasingly impressive temple pyramids came to represent Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu gods, with the moats surrounding the temples representing the mythological oceans.

Many of the stones used to build the various temples at Tanis came from the old Ramesside town of Qantir ( ancient Pi-Ramesses / Per-Ramesses ), which caused many former generations of Egyptologists to believe that Tanis was, in fact, Per-Ramesses.

The biggest discovery however came from a Chinese Taoist named Wang Yuanlu who appointed himself guardian of some of these temples around the turn of the century.

Two of the oldest and best known Chinese temples in Singapore, Thian Hock Keng aka Tian Fu Gong ( belongs to the Hokkien Clan ) and Yueh Hai Ching Temple aka Yue Hai Qing Miao ( belongs to the Teochew & Cantonese Clan ), were both dedicated mainly to Mazu, and in the 19th century were frequented by immigrants who came to give thanks after a safe sea voyage from China.

As with other religions in the country, Buddhism came under the close scrutiny of the country's government – including worship at Buddhist temples by monks, through the state-sponsored Korea Buddhist Federation.

Taoists place less emphasis on formalized attendance and ritualized worship than other Asian religions ; formal temples and structures of worship came about in Taoism mostly in order to prevent losing adherents to Buddhism.

At that time the misuse of devadasis came under strong attack, so that Odissi dance withered in the temples and became unfashionable at court.

In later periods, all temples, even mosques, came to use this character in their name and it was dropped from the names of government ministries.

The supposed Sanchuniathon claimed to have based his work on " collections of secret writings of the Ammouneis discovered in the shrines ", sacred lore deciphered from mystic inscriptions on the pillars which stood in the Phoenician temples, lore which exposed the truth — later covered up by invented allegories and myths — that the gods were originally human beings who came to be worshipped after their deaths and that the Phoenicians had taken what were originally names of their kings and applied them to elements of the cosmos ( compare euhemerism ) as well as also worshipping forces of nature and the sun, moon, and stars.

The umbrellas were originally made by monks or novices at Buddhist temples and served as gifts to those who came to visit them.

He should also build 85 temples at the forest of Khajurs, which subsequently came to be known as Khajuraho, all carved with erotic figures.

When they came bringing their original religion they built many Buddhist pagodas, temples and statues in the city.

And I came back by the road of Uak and Rohan, and brought with me precious stones for the statues of the temples.

Fire also sent upon temples was here represented, and houses overthrown, and falling upon their owners: rivers also, after they came out of a large and melancholy desert, ran down, not into a land cultivated, nor as drink for men, or for cattle, but through a land still on fire upon every side ; for the Jews related that such a thing they had undergone during this war.

In the 1230s, all the temples on the mountain came under control of the Daoist Quanzhen School.

Soon after Augustus came to power, temples erected in his honor sprang up across Asia province.

This name came perhaps due to the fact that Veerappa Nayaka who had already involved himself with inscriptions in other temples in the village constructed the Mandapam in the centre of the Agraharam, where the deity Lakshmi Varaha is taken for a ceremonial halt during certain festivals.

York and the Nuwaubians came under increased government scrutiny in the early 1990s after they built Tama-Re, an Egyptian-themed " city " featuring pyramids, temples, and living quarters for about a hundred of his followers, in Putnam County, Georgia.

Caligula had the heads removed from various statues of gods and replaced with his own in various temples.

He changed his own name to " Akhenaten " and eventually ordered removal from the temples of the name Amun ( as well as references to the plural ' gods ').

One of the earliest coinage of jianghu was by a dejected poet Fan Zhongyan ( 989 — 1052 ) in the Song Dynasty in his poem Yueyang Lou Ji ( 岳阳楼记 ), in which the context of jianghu was set out as distant to the courts and temples, meaning a world in its own right.

Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit.

According to Solomon's " wives turned his heart after other gods ", their own national deities, to whom Solomon built temples, thus incurring divine anger and retribution in the form of the division of the kingdom after Solomon's death.

The creation of this temple is significant as Delos is particularly known as the birthplace of the Greek gods Artemis and Apollo who had temples of their own on the island long before the temple to Isis was built.

24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands ; 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things ; 26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; 27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

There is no question, however, that the two temples of Seth and Nephthys in Sepermeru were under separate administration, each with its own holdings and prophets.

In the text of Papyrus Bologna, the harried Pra ' em-hab laments undue taxation for his own temple ( The House of Seth ) and goes on to lament that he is also saddled with responsibility for: " the ship, and I am likewise also responsible for the House of Nephthys, along with the remaining heap of district temples ".

Georgians erected their own temples in the area of the modern Mount Sinai.

" As Jacques Lafaye wrote in Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe, " as the Christians built their first churches with the rubble and the columns of the ancient pagan temples, so they often borrowed pagan customs for their own cult purposes.

Aker had no temples of his own like the main gods in the Egyptian religion, since he was more connected to the primeval concepts of the very old earth powers.

It has several smaller temples associated with it and has its own sacred lake, constructed in a crescent shape.

They are however a common sight at Japanese Buddhist temples too, where they stand at the entrance of the temple's own shrine, called and usually very small.

This explanation conforms better with the evidence of the unfinished state of Seti I's monuments and the fact that Ramesses II had to complete the decorations on " many of his father's unfinished monuments, including the southern half of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak and portions of his father's temples at Gurnah and Abydos " during the very first Year of his own reign.

He is best known for composing a very large compendium of the heresies up to his own time, full of quotations that are often the only surviving fragments of suppressed texts, and for instigating, with Tychon ( Bishop of Amathus ), a persecution against the non-Christians living on Cyprus, and the destruction of most of their temples.

Many of these temples such as Tō-ji ( 東寺 ) and Daigo-ji ( 醍醐寺 ) in the South of Kyōto ( 京都 ) and Jingo-ji ( 神護寺 ) and Ninna-ji ( 仁和寺 ) in the Northwest became ritual centers establishing their own particular ritual lineages.

Guru stressed the need for the spiritual and social upliftment of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions.

As the revolution became more radical, the new state and its leaders set up its own rival deities and religion, a Cult of Reason and, later, a deistic cult of the Supreme Being, closing many Catholic churches, transforming cathedrals into " temples of reason ", disbanding monasteries and often destroying their buildings ( as at Cluny ), and seizing their lands.

It primarily eulogizes to the deity the ritual is being offered to, and several sects have their own version of the common aarti songs that are often sung on chorus at various temples, during evening and morning aartis.

Of these queens, Neith, Iput, and Udjebten each had their own minor pyramids and mortuary temples as part of the king's own pyramid complex in Saqqara.

Their role is to help the baba / ialorixá in different specific ritual tasks like drumming, singing, cooking, taking care of the orixá shrines and when he / she comes down in possession trance, etc ... Ogas and Ekejis usually do not go on to become baba / ialorixá, nor do they open their own temples or have filhos de santo ( they do not initiate others ).