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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]
Matzevah or masseba [1] (Hebrew: מַצֵּבָה maṣṣēḇā; "pillar") or stele (Greek: στήλην stílin) in the Septuagint, is a term used in the Hebrew Bible for a sacred pillar, a type of standing stone. The term has been adopted by archaeologists for Israelite and related contexts, such as the Canaanite and the Nabataean ones.
The tradition of Kapaemahu, like all pre-contact Hawaiian knowledge, was orally transmitted. [11] The first written account of the story is attributed to James Harbottle Boyd, and was published by Thomas G. Thrum under the title “Tradition of the Wizard Stones Ka-Pae-Mahu” in the Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1907, [1] and reprinted in 1923 under the title “The Wizard Stones of Ka-Pae ...
Huwasi stone in Hittite religion; Omphalos, centre of the world in ancient Greece; Lapis Niger ("black stone") a shrine in the Roman Forum; Banalinga, naturally-formed ovoid stones from river-beds in India; Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia § Sacred stones, a phenomenon common to Semitic religions; Seonangdang in Korea
Sacred trees and stones, adorned with shimenawa ropes, ... An iwasaka (磐境) is a stone altar or mound erected as a yorishiro to call a kami for worship. [3]
The earliest reference to Cermand Cestach is in the Life of Saint Macartan of Clogher (C.430-505 A.D.): "The Cloch-Oir (Golden Stone), from which this ancient diocese takes its name, was a sacred ceremonial stone to the druids, It was given to St. Macartin by an old pagan noble, who had harassed Macartin in every possible way until the saint's patient love won the local ruler to the faith.
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A small serpentinite boulder was excavated very close to the kouros; perhaps it was its baetyl or sacred stone. [7] In Minoan religion, it has been suggested that rubbing, lying, or sleeping on a baetyl could summon a vision of the god, an event which appears to be depicted on some gold Minoan seal rings, where the stones are large oval ...