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The altar (illustration from Brockhaus and Efron Jewish Encyclopedia (1906–1913)) The description of the altar in Solomon's Temple gives it larger dimensions (2 Chronicles 4:1. Comp. 1 Kings 8:22, 8:64; 9:25), and was made wholly of brass, covering a structure of stone or earth. Because this altar was larger than the one used in the ...
Eissfeldt's proposed meaning included both the act and the object of sacrifice. [4] Scholars such as W. von Soden argue that the term is a nominalized causative form of the verb ylk/wlk , meaning "to offer", "present", and thus means "the act of presenting" or "thing presented". [ 17 ]
An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes. Altars are found at shrines, ...
' evil tower ') – Also known as the Akujin, the Kibi-no-Ananowatari-no-Kami and as the Anato-no-Kami, Akuru is a malevolent kami that is mentioned in the Keikoki (records regarding the time of the Emperor Keiko), the Nihonshoki (Chronicles of Japan), and the Kojiki (The Records of Ancient Matters).
It symbolizes the center of the world and the transition from one world to another, it is related to the dead and evil spirits. In folklore this stone is named white stone, cerulean stone, grey stone, golden stone, sea stone, heavenly/paradisiac stone, and less often black stone. [8] White stone together with water and a tree is in a sacred place.
While the meaning of her name is unknown, she was described as the city's mother, [365] or its founder. [366] According to inscriptions of Gudea she assigned a lamma (tutelary deity) to him. [25] She was later equated with Bau. [367] Haya: Umma, Ur, and Kuara. [368] Haya is the husband of the goddess Nisaba.
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.
A fragment of the Twelve Tables reading si malum carmen incantassit ("if anyone should chant an evil spell") shows that it was a longstanding concern of Roman law to suppress malevolent magic. [79] A carmen sepulchrale is a spell that evokes the dead from their tombs; a carmen veneficum , a "poisonous" charm. [ 80 ]