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Among other secondary sacred rivers of Hinduism are Narmada [37] and many more. Among the sacred mountains, the most sacred among those are Mount Kailash [38] (in Tibet), Nanda Devi, Char Dham mountains and Amarnath mountain, Gangotri mountain. Yamunotri mountain, Sarasvotri mountain (origin of Sarasvati River), Dhosi Hill, etc.
From a basic verbal meaning "to consecrate, to purify", it could be used as an adjective meaning "holy", or as a substantive referring to a "sanctuary, sacred object, sacred personnel." [ 1 ] The root is reflected as q-d-š ( Phoenician 𐤒-𐤃-𐤔 , Hebrew ק-ד-ש ) in Northwest Semitic and as q-d-s ( Arabic : ق-د-س ) in Central ...
Philo then refers to a magical stone he calls a baitylia, which was invented when Ouranos first rained them from heaven (making it a meteorite; this is a common mythological etyiology for the origins of these sacred stones [8]). Philo's discussion is only extant in quotations from Eusebius who lived in the fourth century. [15]
Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill) is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds . Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda compiled in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson .
Vé derives from a Common Germanic word meaning sacred or holy, cf. Gothic weihs (holy), Old English wēoh, wīg (idol), German weihen (consecrate, sanctify), German Weihnachten (Christmas). It shares etymology with the phrase Þor vigi ("may Thor hallow " or "may Thor protect") found on the Canterbury Charm , Glavendrup stone , Sønder Kirkeby ...
The English word sacrament is derived indirectly from the Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum, from the Latin sacrō (' hallow, consecrate '), itself derive from the Latin sacer (' sacred, holy '). In Ancient Rome , the term meant a soldier's oath of allegiance .
The analyses of Sanskrit grammar done by the previously mentioned linguists involved extensive studies on the etymology (called Nirukta or Vyutpatti in Sanskrit) of Sanskrit words, because the ancient Indians considered sound and speech itself to be sacred and, for them, the words of the Vedas contained deep encoding of the mysteries of the ...
A totem (from Ojibwe: ᑑᑌᒼ or ᑑᑌᒻ doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe, such as in the Anishinaabe clan system. [1]