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Lydia is a Biblical given name: Lydia of Thyatira, businesswoman in the city of Thyatira in the New Testament's Acts of the Apostles.She was the apostle Paul's first convert in Philippi and thus the first convert to Christianity in Europe.
A number of Lydian religious concepts may well go back to the Early Bronze Age and even Late Stone Age, such as the vegetation goddess Kore, the snake and bull cult, the thunder and rain god and the double-axe as a sign of thunder, the mountain mother goddess (Mother of Gods) assisted by lions, associable or not to the more debated Kuvava .
It is the Greek, Italian, Polish, Romanian, and Spanish transcription of the name Lydia. [1] [2] People. Notable people with the name include:
Lydian may refer to: Lydians, an ancient people of Anatolia; Lydian language, an ancient Anatolian language; Lydian alphabet. Lydian (Unicode block) Lydian (typeface), a decorative typeface; Lydian dominant scale or acoustic scale, a musical scale Lydian mode, a mode derived from ancient Greek music
The temple of Artemis in Sardis, capital of Lydia. The early Lydian religion exhibited strong connections to Anatolian as well as Greek traditions. [2]Although Lydia had been conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire in c. 547 BC, native Lydian traditions were not destroyed by Persian rule, and most Lydian inscriptions were written during this period.
the identity of the figure of Qaλdãns or Qaλiyãns (𐤲𐤷𐤣𐤵𐤫𐤮) is still uncertain, and has been variously interpreted as the Lydian king of the gods, [87] or a Moon-god who was the main masculine deity of the Lydian pantheon and the consort of Artimus, [91] or the Lydian equivalent of the Greek god Apollo (Απολλων), [92 ...
Jug from Lydian Treasure Usak. Four Treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann (also Hallows of Ireland), consisting of the Claíomh Solais, Lug's Spear, Cauldron of the Dagda, and the Lia Fáil. (Celtic mythology) Three Sacred Treasures of Japan, consisting of the Kusanagi, the jewel necklace Yasakani no Magatama, and the mirror Yata no Kagami.
Lydia Rodríguez Fernández (Spanish pronunciation:; born 1980 in Madrid), better known as Lydia, is a Spanish pop singer. Career. When Lydia was ...