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  2. Resurrection of Jesus in Christian art - Wikipedia

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    The Chi Rho with a wreath symbolizing the victory of the Resurrection, above Roman soldiers, c. 350. In the Catacombs of Rome, artists just hinted at the Resurrection by using images from the Old Testament such as the fiery furnace and Daniel in the Lion's Den.

  3. Dying-and-rising god - Wikipedia

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    The term "dying god" is associated with the works of James Frazer, [4] Jane Ellen Harrison, and their fellow Cambridge Ritualists. [16] At the end of the 19th century, in their The Golden Bough [4] and Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Frazer and Harrison argued that all myths are echoes of rituals, and that all rituals have as their primordial purpose the manipulation of natural ...

  4. Virgin Glykofilousa with the Akathist Hymn (Tzangarolas)

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    Below the decoration are the classic symbols ΜΡ ΘΥ. Τhe letters ΜΡ ΘΥ are short for ΜΗΤΗΡ ΘΕΟΥ, it means Mother of God. The Greek symbols are on countless Greek and Italian paintings. [6] The Virgin and Child appear in the traditional glykophilousa (Virgin of the sweet kiss) or the eleusa Virgin (Virgin of compassion) position ...

  5. Serapis - Wikipedia

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    Serapis was depicted as Greek in appearance but with Egyptian trappings, and combined iconography from a great many cults, signifying both abundance and resurrection. The Greeks had little respect for animal-headed figures, and so a Greek-style anthropomorphic statue was chosen as the idol, and proclaimed as the equivalent of the highly popular ...

  6. Resurrection of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The resurrection of Jesus (Biblical Greek: ἀνάστασις τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, romanized: anástasis toú Iēsoú) is the Christian event that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day [note 1] after his crucifixion, starting – or restoring [web 1] [note 2] – his exalted life as Christ and Lord.

  7. Phoenix (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In the oldest images of phoenixes on record these nimbuses often have seven rays, like Helios (the Greek personification of the Sun). [16] Pliny the Elder [ 17 ] also describes the bird as having a crest of feathers on its head, [ 15 ] and Ezekiel the Dramatist compared it to a rooster.

  8. A Stroll Through the Garden: A perennial that's a symbol of ...

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    The Greek word kalos also means beauty in English from which the name calla lily is derived. These white lilies have a popular interpretation of assigning a purity, faithfulness and holiness.

  9. Christ Pantocrator - Wikipedia

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    Christ Pantocrator mosaic in Byzantine style from the Cefalù Cathedral, Sicily. The most common translation of Pantocrator is "Almighty" or "All-powerful". In this understanding, Pantokrator is a compound word formed from the Greek words πᾶς, pas (GEN παντός pantos), i.e. "all" [4] and κράτος, kratos, i.e. "strength", "might", "power". [5]

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