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The Spear (Greek: λόγχη, romanized: lónchē; Church Slavonic: Копіе́, romanized: Kopìé) or Lance is a liturgical implement used during the Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches.
A scythe (handle down), emblematic of Ceres as goddess of the harvest Pallas ⚴ U+26B4 A spear, emblematic of Athena Juno ⚵ U+26B5 A scepter, emblematic of Juno as queen of the gods, topped with a star Vesta ⚶ U+26B6 The fire-altar of Vesta's temple: Astraea [34] %, ⯙ U+0025, U+2BD9 The % sign (shift-5 on the keyboard for asteroid 5) [36 ...
Ama-no-Saka-hoko (Heavenly Upside Down Spear) is an antique and mysterious spear, staked by Ninigi-no-Mikoto at the summit of Takachiho-no-mine, where he and his divine followers first landed, according to the legend of Tenson kōrin. Nihongo, is one of three legendary Japanese spears created by the famed swordsmith Masazane Fujiwara. A famous ...
An example, in English, of boustrophedon as used in inscriptions in ancient Greece (Lines 2 and 4 read right-to-left.) Boustrophedon (/ ˌ b uː s t r ə ˈ f iː d ən / [1]) is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style.
The word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit root swasti, which is composed of su 'good, well' and asti 'is; it is; there is'. [31] The word swasti occurs frequently in the Vedas as well as in classical literature, meaning 'health, luck, success, prosperity', and it was commonly used as a greeting.
Greek school of Pythagoreanism The tetractys is an equidistant and equiangular arrangement of ten points inside a triangle , akin to the fourth triangle number . It was developed by Pythagoras , and collectively signifies cosmic unity in the form of The Decad, as well as the musica universalis , or collective abstraction of the music generated ...
The Russian Orthodox Cross (or just the Orthodox Cross by some Russian Orthodox traditions) [1] is a variation of the Christian cross since the 16th century in Russia, although it bears some similarity to a cross with a bottom crossbeam slanted the other way (upwards) found since the 6th century in the Byzantine Empire.
The origin of the symbol comes from the tradition that Saint Peter was crucified upside down. [1] This narrative first appears in the "Martyrdom of Peter", a text found in, but possibly predating, the Acts of Peter , an apocryphal work which was originally composed during the second half of the 2nd century. [ 2 ]