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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 .
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.
Ludim (Hebrew: לודים, romanized: Lūḏîm) is the Hebrew term for a people mentioned in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. In the Biblical Table of Nations Genesis 10:13 they were descended from Mizraim. The biblical scholar Victor P. Hamilton believes that the available evidence "suggests" that the Ludim are the Lydians. [1]
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 ...
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.
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
Archaeologists have finally deciphered the meaning, long debated, of a text inscribed on an ancient Turkish monument.. The heavily damaged inscription, written in the Old Phrygian language, is ...
The reason for the two interpretations is, as usual, a Hebrew ambiguity. The Hebrew plural "Ludim" certainly seems to refer to Lydians from Lydia ("Lud") in some places. But "Ludim" also is the spelling given for the Mizraimite (Egyptian) tribe in Genesis 10, whereas Shem's son appears only as "Lud".