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The earliest historic records confirming idols are from the ancient Egyptian civilization, thereafter related to the Greek civilization. [36] By the 2nd millennium BC two broad forms of cult image appear, in one images are zoomorphic (god in the image of animal or animal-human fusion) and in another anthropomorphic (god in the image of man). [32]
Ancient Egyptian architect and physician whose status, two thousand years after his death, was raised to that of a god, becoming the god of medicine and healing. He was an Egyptian chancellor to the pharaoh Djoser , probable architect of the Djoser's step pyramid , and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis .
The ancient Mesopotamians believed that their deities lived in Heaven, [9] but that a god's statue was a physical embodiment of the god himself. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] As such, cult statues were given constant care and attention [ 11 ] [ 9 ] and a set of priests were assigned to tend to them. [ 12 ]
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 ...
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
The god Marduk and his dragon Mušḫuššu. Mesopotamian religion encompasses the religious beliefs (concerning the gods, creation and the cosmos, the origin of man, and so forth) and practices of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia between circa 6000 BC [1] and 400 AD.
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere
Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης), was the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly, a famous archer, fought at the Trojan War; Phylonoe (Φυλονόη), daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, made immortal by Artemis; Psyche (Ψυχή), goddess of the soul