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Baetyl, sacred stones in ancient Asian and European religions; Benben, in ancient Egyptian religion; 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
The phrase Hòn non bộ comes from the Vietnamese language: Hòn (𡉕) means islands, non (𡽫) means mountains, and bộ 部 means a set, in this context, the islands and the mountains are one set. Hòn non bộ may be quite large and elaborate or small and simple. It was used to grace the courtyard entrance of the traditional Vietnamese home.
Colored Stones of Nüwa, five colored stones crafted by the goddess Nüwa that each represent one of the five Chinese elements, fire, water, earth, metal, and wood. ( Chinese Mythology ) Madstone , a special medicinal substance that, when pressed into an animal bite, was believed to prevent rabies by drawing the "poison" out.
Philo then refers to a magical stone he calls a baitylia, which was invented when Ouranos first rained them from heaven (making it a meteorite; this is a common mythological etyiology for the origins of these sacred stones [8]). Philo's discussion is only extant in quotations from Eusebius who lived in the fourth century. [15]
Back of the Holy Crown. The Holy Crown of Hungary (Hungarian: Szent Korona [ˈsɛnt ˈkoronɒ], [note 1] Latin: Sacra Corona), also known as the Crown of Saint Stephen, named in honour of Saint Stephen I of Hungary, was the coronation crown used by the Kingdom of Hungary for most of its existence; kings were crowned with it since the twelfth century.
Vietnam holds the second-highest number of World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia, after Indonesia with ten sites. [3] The Complex of Huế Monuments was the first site in Vietnam to be inscribed on the list at the 17th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Colombia in 1993. [4]
Tomb of Tự Đức (Vietnamese: Lăng Tự Đức), officially Khiêm Mausoleum (Khiêm Lăng, chữ Hán: 謙 陵), is located in Huế, Vietnam. It is built for the Nguyễn Emperor Tự Đức and took three years to build, from 1864 to 1867. It is divided into a Temple Area and a Tomb Area.
Văn Miếu (Vietnamese: Văn Miếu, chữ Hán: 文廟 [1] [2]), literally translated as Temple of Literature (although a more accurate name should be Temple of Confucius, as Văn refers to Confucius), is a temple dedicated to Confucius in Hanoi, northern Vietnam.