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The Emesa temple to the sun god Elagabalus with baetyl at centre. Roman coin of 3rd century AD. A baetyl (/ ˈ b iː t ɪ l /; also betyl), literally "house of god" is a sacred stone (sometimes believed to be a meteorite) that was venerated and thought to house a god or deity. [1]
The Portico Dii Consentes (Latin: Porticus Deorum Consentium; Italian: Portico degli Dei Consenti), also known as the Area of the Dii Consentes or the Harmonious Gods, is an ancient structure located at the bottom of the ancient Roman road that leads up to the Capitol in Rome, Italy.
The Ten Commandments of God and the Lord's Prayer. Grail Foundation Press. ISBN 978-1-57461-004-8. The Ten Commandments of God and The Lord's Prayer; Peter Barenboim, Biblical Roots of Separation of Powers, Moscow, 2005, ISBN 5-94381-123-0. Boltwood, Emily (2012). 10 Simple Rules of the House of Gloria. Tate Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62024-840-9.
The Pantheon (UK: / ˈ p æ n θ i ə n /, US: /-ɒ n /; [1] Latin: Pantheum, [nb 1] from Ancient Greek Πάνθειον (Pantheion) '[temple] of all the gods') is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church (Italian: Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy.
Among the prominent Christians executed as a result of their refusal to perform acts of worship to the Roman gods as ordered by emperor Valerian in 258 were Cyprian, bishop of Carthage. [132] The last and most severe of the imperial persecutions was that under Diocletian in 303 ; they ended in Rome, and the West in general, with the accession ...
However, there is a tendency in the later Hellenistic and Roman periods for almost all gods to develop solar attributes, and for almost all eastern gods to be identified with the Sun. Nonnus gives the title Astrochiton 'Starclad' to Tyrian Heracles and has his Dionysus recite a hymn to this Heracles, saluting him as "the son of Time, he who ...
The Decian persecution was the first empire-wide conflict, [36] when the edict of Decius in 250 AD required everyone in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods. The Diocletianic Persecution beginning in 303 AD was also particularly severe. Roman persecution ended in 313 AD with the Edict of Milan.
The youngest person found commemorated on a Roman tombstone by name was a male infant nine days old (or 10 days in Roman inclusive counting). [156] Because of the rate of infant mortality , perhaps as high as 40 percent, [ 157 ] the newborn in its first few days of life was held as in a liminal phase, vulnerable to malignant forces (see List of ...