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 ).

Statues in the round were avoided as being too close to the principal artistic focus of pagan cult practices, as they have continued to be ( with some small-scale exceptions ) throughout the history of Eastern Christianity.

The cult in the Temple of Artemis ( Diana ) at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World possibly originated with the observation of a meteorite fall which was understood by contemporaries to have fallen to the earth from Zeus, the principal Greek deity.

The vast number of these collections has given us the opportunity to reconstruct with considerable confidence the principal ideas of the cult.

Wohlforth now claims that the Workers League became a cult, largely due to the domination and manipulations of the principal ICFI leader at the time, Gerry Healy.

Aramazd's main sanctuary was one of the principal cult centers of Ancient Armenia.

* Further, a " religion " is further defined in s. 36 ( 4 ); it-does not include an organisation or cult — ( a ) the principal object of which is the making of profit, or ( b ) that employs oppressive psychological manipulation — ( i ) of its followers, or ( ii ) for the purpose of gaining new followers.

As the story begins, the principal character, Wenamun, a priest of Amun at Karnak, is sent by the High Priest of Amun Herihor to the Phoenician city of Byblos to acquire lumber ( probably cedar wood ) to build a new ship to transport the cult image of Amun.

The five principal cult leaders, Joseph Kibweteere, Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara, Dominic Kataribabo, and Credonia Mwerinde, were assumed to have died in the fire.

According to ancient tradition, Pessinous was the principal cult centre of the cult of Cybele / Kybele.

Aramazd's main sanctuary was one of the principal cult centers of Ancient Armenia.

Unusually among the Olympic deities, Apollo had two cult sites that had widespread influence: Delos and Delphi.

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.

In what appears to be a 7th century indication of the survival of cult practices of this general sort, Saint Eligius, in his Sermo warns the sick among his recently converted flock in Flanders against putting " devilish charms at springs or trees or crossroads ", and, according to Saint Ouen would urge them " No Christian should make or render any devotion to the deities of the trivium, where three roads meet ...".

Of the four deities of Empedocles's elements, it is the name of Persephone alone that is taboo — Nestis is a euphemistic cult title — for she was also the terrible Queen of the Dead, whose name was not safe to speak aloud, who was euphemistically named simply as Kore or " the Maiden ", a vestige of her archaic role as the deity ruling the underworld.

Like other Egyptian deities, the cult of Isis spread outside Egypt, and became the focus of a centralized cult in the Hellenistic period.

The temple of Mesopotamia derived from the cult of gods and deities in Mesopotamian religion.

Both deities had several cult centers in each region, and Horus is often associated with Lower Egypt and Set with Upper Egypt.

Native Chinese religions do not usually use cult images of deities, or even represent them, and large religious sculpture is nearly all Buddhist, dating mostly from the 4th to the 14th century, and initially using Greco-Buddhist models arriving via the Silk Road.

) Indeed between 900 BC and AD 100, sacred Delos was a major cult centre, where Dionysus is also in evidence as well as the Titaness Leto, mother of the above mentioned twin deities.

" Such deities are very much overshadowed by the divine figures defined through poetry and cult ," Walter Burkert remarked of Greek nature deities.

The religious maintenance of abstract deities such as Aeternitas was characteristic of official Roman cult from the time of the Julio-Claudians to the Severans.

Her cult dated to the earliest period of Roman religious history, since she was one the fifteen deities who had their own flamen, the Furrinalis, one of the flamines minores.

They were associated with the Lares, Lemures, Genii, and Di Penates as deities ( di ) that pertained to domestic, local, and personal cult.

The cult members thought that the foreigners had some special connection to the deities and ancestors of the natives, who were the only beings powerful enough to produce such riches.

In Roman Imperial cult, abstract Roman deities who fostered peace ( pax Romana ) and prosperity were also depicted with a cornucopia, including Abundantia, " Abundance " personified, and Annona, goddess of the grain supply to the city of Rome.

Eventually, later in Egyptian history that spanned thousands of years and whose pantheon evolved toward a merger of many deities, Serket began to be identified with Isis, sharing imagery and parentage, until finally, Serket became said to be merely an aspect of Isis, whose cult had become very dominant.

Later, when the cult of the moon deity, Thoth, became prominent and he became identified as a god of wisdom, the role of Seshat changed in the Egyptian pantheon when counterparts were created for most older deities.

It is thought that female deities are older than male ones in Mesopotamia and Tiamat may have begun as part of the cult of Nammu, a female principle of a watery creative force, with equally strong connections to the underworld, which predates the appearance of Ea-Enki.

Barques were important religious artifacts and since the deities were thought to travel in this fashion in the sky — the Milky Way was seen as a great waterway that was as important as the Nile on Earth — cult statues of the deities traveled by boats on water and ritual boats were carried about by the priests during festival ceremonies.

An imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor, or a dynasty of emperors ( or rulers of another title ), are worshipped as messiahs, demigods or deities.

Accurate naming was vital for tapping into the desired powers of the deity invoked, hence the proliferation of cult epithets among Roman deities.