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The worship of Amun at Augila in the Libyan desert was abolished ; and so were the remnants of the worship of Isis on the island of Philae, at the first cataract of the Nile.

Isis (, original Egyptian pronunciation more likely Aset ) is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.

The worship of Isis eventually spread throughout the Greco-Roman world, continuing until the suppression of paganism in the Christian era.

In Greece, traditional centres of worship in Delos, Delphi, Eleusis and Athens were taken over by followers of Isis, and this occurred in northern Greece as well.

Following the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great the worship of Isis spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.

The name, which became common in Roman times, survived the suppression of the Isis worship and remains popular up to the present – being among others the name of several Christian saints.

In the late centuries BC, the worship of Isis spread from Egypt across the Mediterranean world.

In the Alexandrian and Roman renewed vogue for mystery cults at the turn of the millennium — mystery cults had already existed for almost a millennium — the worship of Horus became widely extended, linked with Isis ( his mother ) and Serapis ( Osiris, his father ).

It lingered underground for many decades: the final edict against paganism was issued in 435, but graffiti at Philae in Upper Egypt proves worship of Isis persisted at its temples into the 6th century.

In the Coffin Texts Horus calls upon him, " Come and worship my father N for me, just as you went that you might worship my mother Isis in your name Duamutef.

Either way, Duamutef through his worship of Isis has the power to protect the deceased from harm.

In the same area, between the Agora and the temple of Apollo are the ruins of the Roman baths ( thermae ), as well as the temple of Apollo, an honorary arch, and the temple of the Egyptian deities with the worship statues of Isis, Serapis and Anubis.

She made replicas of them and distributed them to several locations, which then became centres of Osiris worship.

By late in the Middle Kingdom, the centuries-old tomb of the First Dynasty ruler Djer, near Osiris ' main center of worship in the city of Abydos, was seen as Osiris ' tomb.

Accordingly, it became a major focus of Osiris worship.

In the “ Introduction ” to the Priapeia, the translators point out that “ The worship of Priapus amongst the Romans was derived from the Egyptians, who, under the form of Apis, the Sacred Bull, adored the generative Power of Nature ,” adding that “ the Phallus was the ancient emblem of creation, and representative of the gods Bacchus, Priapus, Hermaphroditus, Hercules, Shiva, Osiris, Baal and Asher, who were all Phallic deities .”

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Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.

In one debate he supported the freedom of judgment as opposed to dogma, in another he held that the practice of science was in fact an act of religious worship.

`` But the point is '', Charlotte said, `` there he was, freezing, naked in a little stream of water at Ryusenji, all in worship of Fudo, the god of fire ''.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

Apollo was worshipped as Actiacus ( ; Ἄκτιακός, Aktiakos, literally " Actian "), Delphinius ( ; Δελφίνιος, Delphinios, literally " Delphic "), and Pythius ( ; Πύθιος, Puthios, from Πυθώ, Pūthō, the area around Delphi ), after Actium ( Ἄκτιον ) and Delphi ( Δελφοί ) respectively, two of his principal places of worship.

The Roman worship of Apollo was adopted from the Greeks.

In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.

Her chief center of worship was at Paphos, where the goddess of desire had been worshipped from the early Iron Age in the form of Ishtar and Astarte.

He was generous to the poor ; it was his custom to comment severely in his preaching on the public characters of his times ; and he introduced popular reforms in the order and manner of public worship.

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

Centuries later, the neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus mentioned in his archaeological records that Ishtar's worship in Agade was later superseded by that of the goddess Anunit, whose shrine was at Sippar — suggesting proximity of Sippar and Agade.

For the Hellenes, high on the cliff a temple was built, which became a worship site devoted to Aphrodite, in her particular local presence as Aphrodite Amathusia along with a bearded male Aphrodite called Aphroditos.

Unlike the Israelite worship assembly, which was only able to look on during Temple worship as the Levitical Priest sang, played, and offered animal sacrifices, in the New Testament, all Christians are commanded to sing praises to God.

Though God commanded instruments to be used in Temple worship, and the daily life of Israel, the first recorded example of a musical instrument in Roman Catholic worship was an organ introduced by Pope Vitalian into a cathedral in Rome around 670.

In Book XI of " The Golden Ass " by Apuleius, we find evidence that the worship of this god was maintained in Rome at least up to the 2nd century.

What is known is that there was a chapel in Accrington prior to 1553 where the vicar of Whalley was responsible for the maintenance of divine worship.

When the devil perceived his ascetic life and his intense worship, he was envious and beat him mercilessly, leaving him unconscious.

" In 1009, during the reign of the sixth Fatimid Caliph, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the Church of the Nativity was ordered to be demolished, but was spared by local Muslims, because they had been permitted to worship in the structure's southern transept.

Claudius opposed proselytizing in any religion, even in those regions where he allowed natives to worship freely.

The service takes the form of non-liturgical, open worship with all male participants allowed to pray audibly and select hymns or readings.

Ahab allowed worship of a foreign god in the palace, building a temple for Baal, and allowing Jezebel to bring a large entourage of priests and prophets of Baal and Asherah into the country.

Women were allowed full freedom of worship.

They were not allowed to move or worship openly.

Only after the Communists took over were the Salafis allowed to come out and worship openly.

Adler remarked that many Pagans informed her of how they had adopted polytheism because it allowed a greater freedom, diversity and tolerance of worship amongst the community than that permitted in monotheistic religions.

Adler noted that it was this belief in polytheism that had allowed the " multitude " of different Pagan religions to " exist more or less in harmony ", as in enabled them to accept the existence and worship of one another's deities.

The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1774 ended the First Russo-Turkish War and allowed that the Christian citizens of the Ottoman-controlled Rumanian provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia would be allowed freedom to worship.

This rectification allowed the rulers of the Imperial States to independently decide their religious worship.

The Whigs, opposing the court religious policies, argued that the Dissenters should be allowed to worship separately from the established Church, and this position ultimately prevailed when the Toleration Act was passed in the wake of the Glorious Revolution ( 1689 ).

Stuyvesant's decision was rescinded after pressure from the directors of the Dutch West India Company ; as a result, Stuyvesant allowed Jewish immigrants to stay in the colony as long as their community was self-supporting, but – with the support of the company – forbade them to build a synagogue, forcing them to worship in a private house.

The Decree of Diopithes made the introduction of and belief in foreign Gods a criminal offence and only Greeks were allowed to worship in Athenian temples and festivals as foreigners were considered impure.

Strangers are allowed to worship only the spirits of the standard pantheon

In Korea, Buddhism was not seen to conflict with the rites of nature worship ; it was allowed to blend in with Shamanism.

The Act allowed freedom of worship for all trinitarian Christians in Maryland, but sentenced to death anyone who denied the divinity of Jesus.

Succumbing to Leander's soft words, and to his argument that Aphrodite, as goddess of love, would scorn the worship of a virgin, Hero allowed him to make love to her.

He decided that the country should convert to Christianity as a whole, but that pagans would be allowed to worship secretly.

It is implied in the story that Odin's foreknowledge allowed him to assure Balder of future resurrection and worship on the new earth, " risen out of the water, fresh and green ", after Ragnarok, the doom of the gods and the end of the world.

The Moabites were to be excluded from the assembly of worshipers, because: “ They did not come to meet you with food and drink when you were on your way out of Egypt, and even hired Balaam, son of Beor, to oppose you by cursing you .” ( Deuteronomy 23: 3-5 ) The Israelites were allowed to harass Moab, but were forbidden to wage war on them, so they defeated Midian as a result of the advice that Balaam gave that led to a plague in punishment for the worship of idols at Baal Peor.

George Washington had given a speech at the Touro Synagogue extolling the virtues of freedom of worship and that the Jews were allowed to live and worship freely in the United States.

Various European efforts to establish trading posts in Vietnam failed, but missionaries were allowed to operate for some time until the mandarins began concluding that Christianity ( which had succeeded in converting up to a tenth of the population by 1700 ) was a threat to the Confucian social order since it condemned ancestor worship as idolatry.