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  2. Celtic stone idols - Wikipedia

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    Archaeologists believe that the pre-Christian stone idols were intended as centerpieces for worship sites. A majority of the surviving examples were rediscovered near sacred wells, rivers or trees. On the British Isles especially, these locations typically adapted by early Christians for churches and monasteries. [15] [16]

  3. Cult image - Wikipedia

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    The term idol is an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship, [1] [2] [3] while idolatry is the worship of an "idol" as though it were God. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Ancient Near East and Egypt

  4. Iron Age wooden cult figures - Wikipedia

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    The earliest evidence of anthropomorphic wooden cult figures in areas that would later have Germanic-speaking inhabitants is from the Bronze Age.The Broddenbjerg idol, an ithyphallic forked-stick figure found in a peat bog near Viborg, Denmark, is carbon-dated to approximately 535–520 BCE. [2]

  5. Idolatry - Wikipedia

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    Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf, painting by William Blake, 1799–1800. Idolatry is the worship of an idol as though it were a deity. [1] [2] [3] In Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, the BaháΚΌí Faith, and Islam) idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone other than the Abrahamic God as if it were God.

  6. List of pre-Islamic Arabian deities - Wikipedia

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    According to the Book of Idols, the Kalb worshipped him in the form of a man and is said to have represented heaven, and his cult image reportedly stood at Dumat al-Jandal. Attested: Attested: Al-Ya'bub Al-Ya'bub is a god that belonged to the Jadilah clan of Tayy, who according to the Book of Idols abstained from food and drink before him. [33]

  7. List of Celtic deities - Wikipedia

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    Keltic researches: Studies in the History and Distribution of the Ancient Goidelic Language and Peoples. Oxford UP. Olivares Olivares Pedreño, Juan Carlos (2005). "Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula". E-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies. 6: 607– 649. Rankin, David (1998). Celts and the classical world. London: Routledge.

  8. Discovery of 20 ancient Egyptian tombs reveals idols and ...

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    The tombs date to the late period, the last era of native-born ancient Egyptian rulers, which lasted from 664 to until the conquests of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C., officials said.

  9. List of Egyptian deities - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian deities were an integral part of ancient Egyptian religion and were worshiped for millennia. Many of them ruled over natural and social phenomena, as well as abstract concepts [1] These gods and goddesses appear in virtually every aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization, and more than 1,500 of them are known by name. Many ...