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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]
Sunlight shining through an approaching storm illuminates the group and the circular stonework of the shrine, within which is a sacred grove and a statue of the great hero and protector. The central feature of the painting is the dressed stone wall, trimmed with polished marble, which has a much admired luminescent quality.
Sacred trees and stones, ... is a stone altar or mound erected as a yorishiro to call a kami for worship. [3] ... Gallery. Hitsuishi ritual site ...
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
It is an ancient temple and was renovated few years back. The ancient temple was constructed by interlocking stones without using chalk or binding material. The temple was earlier known as Dewri Diri, meaning sacred stone of Diuri village. [3] [4] At the temple devotees tie yellow and red sacred threads on bamboo for the fulfilment of their wishes.
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.
The Benben stone, named after the mound, was a sacred stone in the temple of Ra at Heliopolis (Egyptian: Annu or Iunu). It was the location on which the first rays of the sun fell. It is thought to have been the prototype for later obelisks, and the capstones of the great pyramids were based on its design.
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 ...