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The Temple of the Feathered Serpent. The Temple of the Feathered Serpent is the third largest pyramid [1] at Teotihuacan, a pre-Columbian site in central Mexico (the term Teotihuacan, or Teotihuacano, is also used for the whole civilization and cultural complex associated with the site). This pre-Columbian city rose around the first or second ...
The temple is filled with the smoke of burning incense and a variety of pit vipers. [6] The vipers are believed to be rendered harmless by the sacred smoke, but as a safety precaution, the snakes have been de-venomed while still retaining their fangs. [2] [3] Other species of snakes are also found in the temple.
Archaeologists unearthed the tablet in the ancient city of Sippar (about a mile from modern Baghdad) in the 1870s. The British Museum acquired it in 1920, but it had remained in storage unpublished until Michael Jursa (associate professor at the University of Vienna ) discovered its relevance to biblical history.
In 1900, Sir Arthur Evans undertook more extensive excavations which unearthed most of the palace as well as many now-famous artifacts including the Bull-Leaping Fresco, the snake goddess figurines, and numerous Linear B tablets. While Evans is often credited for discovering the Minoan Civilization, his work is controversial in particular for ...
His main temple was known simply as E-Gishbanda, [13] "house of Gishbanda," and it was commonly listed alongside the main temple of his father Ninazu, E-Gidda. [14] He also had a temple in Lagash, the E-badbarra, "house, outer wall." [15] Yet another one was built in Girsu by Gudea, though its name is unknown. [16]
In ancient times the city core was known as Ox Te' Tuun, meaning "Place of Three Stones". [3] Another name associated with the site, and perhaps a larger area around it, is Chiik Naab'. The lords of Calakmul identified themselves as k'uhul kaanal ajaw, Divine Lords of the Snake, but the connection of the title to the actual site is ambiguous. [4]
Snake's head from the Serpentine Column erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople; Mother-Goddess Cybele and votive stelai; Busts of Alexander the Great and Zeus; Fragments from the temple of Athena at Assos; The Troy exhibit; 800,000 Ottoman coins, seals, decorations and medals; One tablet with the oldest known law-collection, the laws of ...
The late neo-Assyrian text "Myth of the Seven Sages" recalls: "The fourth (of the seven apkallu's, "sages", is) Lu-Nanna, (only) two-thirds Apkallu, who drove the ušumgallu-dragon from É-ninkarnunna, the temple of Ištar of Šulgi." [7] Aššur-nāṣir-apli II placed golden icons of ušumgallu at the pedestal of Ninurta. [8]