He did not have a separate cult, but he was the personification of the holy magic-song sung by the magicians that was supposed to cure disease.

It is more probable that this art was introduced later from Anatolia and regenerated an existing oracular cult that was local to Delphi and dormant in several areas of Greece.

The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.

Apollo's cult was already fully established when written sources commenced, about 650 BCE.

On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".

The naked bodies of the statues are associated with the cult of the body that was essentially a religious activity.

Historically, her cult in Greece was imported from, or influenced by, the cult of Astarte in Phoenicia.

Kythira was a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Peloponesus, so these stories may preserve traces of the migration of Aphrodite's cult from the Middle East to mainland Greece.

Lycurgus of Thrace, an antagonist of Dionysus, forbade the cult of Dionysus, whom he drove from Thrace, and was driven mad by the god.

Agrippina was named a priestess of the cult of the deified Claudius.

This was part of Ealdred's promotion of the cult of Saint John, who had only been canonized in 1037.

Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-preserved than neighboring Kourion.

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.

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.

The 4-volume work was an imaginary travel journal, one of the first historical novels, which Klemperer called " the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique " in the late 18th century.

Aeschylus was one of many Greeks who had been initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, a cult to Demeter based in his hometown of Eleusis.

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

In 2000, a French court ruled that a government minister's description of anthroposophy as a cult was defamatory.

At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.

However, the name Artemis ( variants Arktemis, Arktemisa ) is most likely related to Greek árktos ‘ bear ’ ( from PIE * h₂ŕ ̥ tḱos ), supported by the bear cult that the goddess had in Attica ( Brauronia ) and the Neolithic remains at the Arkouditessa, as well as the story about Callisto, which was originally about Artemis ( Arcadian epithet kallisto ).

Enlil is associated with the ancient city of Nippur, sometimes referred to as the cult city of Enlil.

In this view, her activity as goddess of marriage established the patriarchal bond of her own subordination: her resistance to the conquests of Zeus is rendered as Hera's " jealousy ", the main theme of literary anecdotes that undercut her ancient cult.

Strabo ( 14. 1. 37 ) records an Homeric temple in Smyrna with an ancient xoanon or cult statue of the poet.

A hero ( heroine is always used for females ) (), in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.

Politicians, ancient and modern, have employed hero worship for their own apotheosis ( i. e., cult of personality ).

In ancient Dacia the cult of Zalmoxis had grown into a wide spread henotheistic religion by the seventh century BC.

The cult of the Heavenly Dog was widespread between the tribes west and east of the ancient China.

During the Roman periods it was renowned as the largest temple in Greece and housed one of the largest cult statues in the ancient world.

Despite his importance to the myths and imaginative literature of ancient Greece, the religious cult of Prometheus during the Archaic and Classical periods seems to have been limited.

The ancient gods with tails of animals who stood for primitive bodily insticts, were considered to protect the flocks and herds, and some of them survived in the cult of Dionysos ( Satyrs and Seilinoi ) and Pan ( the goat-god ).

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( High-risk United Nations Task-force ), is sent to San Nicolas Island to investigate deadly cult activity taking place in an ancient monastery.

Although some historians claim that ancient Egyptian society was a “ death cult ” because of its elaborate tombs and mummification rituals, it was really quite the opposite.

" At Sais, however, the patron goddess of the ancient cult was Neith, many of whose traits had begun to be attributed to Isis during the Greek occupation.

Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Libera, an ancient fertility goddess, wife of Liber and is also considered a life – death – rebirth deity.

It was well-known throughout the Mediterranean area in the ancient age, and an important cult was celebrated in it.

It was to bring together the storylines of season 1 ( Manticore ) and season 2 ( ancient blood cult ) and reveal the mythology of Dark Angel.

" Walter Burkert notes that the story of Io was told in the ancient epic tradition at least four times of which we have traces: in the Danais, in the Phoronis — Phoroneus founded the cult of Hera, according to Hyginus ' Fabulae 274 and 143 — in a fragment of the Hesiodic Aigimios, as well as in similarly fragmentary Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.

To him, the rites of their cult suggest an incomprehensibly archaic, quasi-magical and probably very ancient rural tradition.

The Eleusinian Mysteries () were initiation ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in ancient Greece.

Aztec legends identify the Toltecs and the cult of Quetzalcoatl with the legendary city of Tollan, which they also identified with the more ancient Teotihuacan.