Kharites

The KHARITES (Charites), also known as the Graces, were three goddesses associated with grace, beauty, adornment, joy, mirth, festivity, dance, and song. A group of younger Kharites oversaw various other pleasures of life, such as play, amusement, banquets, floral decoration, happiness, relaxati...

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Kharites

Taotie

The Taotie (Chinese: 饕餮) is an ancient Chinese mythological creature that was commonly emblazoned on bronze and other artifacts during the 1st millennium BC. Taotie are one of the "four evil creatures of the world". In Chinese classical texts such as the "Classi...

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Taotie

Horns of Consecration

İlk olarak Arthur Evans tarafından Minos dininde önemli bir rol oynayan stilize boğa boynuzlarını temsil ettiği varsayılan sembolü tanımlamak için kullanılan bir terim. Genellikle kaymaktaşı veya başka bir taştan yapılan kutsama boynuzları kutsal alanlarda ve diğer binalarda bulu...

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Khepri

Ο αρχαίος θεός του ήλιου, που συλλήφθηκε ως ένας μεγάλος σκαραβαίος σκαραβαίος που κυλάει τον ήλιο στους ουρανούς, του οποίου η λατρεία είχε επίκεντρο την Ηλιούπολη. Αυτή η θεότητα μερικές φορές απεικονίζεται στην ταφική ζωγραφική και τους ταφικούς παπύρους ως άνδρας με σκαραβαίο ως κεφάλι ή ως σ...

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Khepri

Der alte Sonnengott, der als großer Skarabäuskäfer konzipiert wurde, der die Sonne über den Himmel rollt, dessen Kult in Heliopolis zentriert war. Diese Gottheit wird manchmal in Grabmalereien und Grabpapyri als Mann mit einem Skarabäus als Kopf oder als Skarabäus in einem Boot dargestellt, das v...

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Khepri

L'ancien dieu du soleil, conçu comme un grand scarabée faisant rouler le soleil dans les cieux, dont le culte était centré à Héliopolis. Cette divinité est parfois représentée dans la peinture des tombes et les papyrus funéraires comme un homme avec un scarabée comme tête ou comme un scarabée dan...

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Khepri

Kültü Heliopolis merkezli olan, güneşi göklerde yuvarlayan büyük bir bok böceği olarak tasarlanan antik güneş tanrısı. Bu tanrı bazen mezar resimlerinde ve cenaze papirüslerinde kafasında bok böceği olan bir adam veya Nun tarafından havada tutulan bir teknede tasvir edilir.

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Auletris

Çift flüt veya diaulos çalma işini yerine getiren kişi.

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Auletris

Performer on the double flute or diaulos.

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Auletris

Mnevis

Eski Mısır dininde kutsal boğa. Heliopolis'teki güneş tanrısının 'gücü' veya fiziksel tezahürü olarak kabul edilirdi. Mısır'daki birkaç kutsal boğadan biri olarak, güneş tanrısı Re-Atum ile yakından ilişkiliydi. Doğrulanmasa da, Mnevis kültü muhtemelen 1. hanedanlığa (MÖ 2925-2775) veya daha önce...

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Sphinx

In Ancient Egyptian, Hittite and early Greek art, a representation of a human head bn the body of a crouched lion. In Egypt, sphinxes were held to guard temples and tombs from intruders; they often bore the features of a pharaoh and the great rock-cut sphinx at Giza, 80 metres long and 20 metres ...

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Horns of Consecration

A term first used by Arthur Evans to describe the symbol, supposedly representing stylized bulls’ horns, which played a major role in Minoan religion. Usually made of alabaster or other stone, horns of consecration are found in sanctuaries and other buildings; they also appear in artistic depicti...

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Caryatid

Properly, a standing female figure sometimes substituted in a classical building for a column (usually of the Ionic order). Notable examples are to be found in the Cni-dian and Siphnian Treasuries (6th century bc) at Delphi in Greece, and one porch of the Erechtheum temple on the Acropolis at Ath...

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Baal

An ancient Canaanite god, first appearing in inscriptions of the early Middle Bronze Age (c2000 bc). An important temple dedicated to Baal has been excavated at Ugarit. One of his main roles was as a god of fertility. The worship of Baal continued into Phoenician times and also appears in the Pun...

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Griffin

Aiskhylos'un Prometheus'unda (804) ve Herodot tarihinde (III, 116 ve IV, 13) sözü geçen efsanelik kuşlara yun. "Gryps", batı dillerinde de "Griffon" adı verilir. Aiskhylos bu yaratıkları "havlamaz, uzun gagalı, kanatlı köpekler" olarak tanımlar. Başka bir söylenceye göre, gövdeleri aslan gövdesid...

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Griffin

Grifon (İng. Griffin), yarısı aslan, yarısı kartal olarak betimlenmiş mitolojik yaratıklara verilen ad.

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Griffin

Griffin, also spelled griffon or gryphon, composite mythological creature with a lion’s body (winged or wingless) and a bird’s head, usually that of an eagle. The griffin was a favourite decorative motif in the ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean lands. Probably originating in the Levant in ...

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Griffin

Kentauros

Yunan mitolojisinde, Tesalya ve Arcadia dağlarında yaşayan yarı at, yarı insan olan yaratık. Üst gövdesi insan başı ve kollarından, alt gövdesi ise bir atın gövdesi ve dört ayağından oluşurdu.

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Melkarth

One of the gods of the Phoenicians, whose name means 'ruler of the city'. He was the chief deity of Tyre and two of its colonies, Carthage and Gadir (Cádiz, Spain). Greek historian Herodotus equated Melkarth's temple to Heracles, which was the scene of annual winter and spring festivals and is be...

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Melkarth

Valhöll

In Norse mythology, the hall of slain warriors, who live there blissfully under the leadership of the god Odin, ready to defend the gods at Ragnarök.

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Valhöll

Horus

An Egyptian god in the form of a falcon, recognized in Hierakonpolis and Edfu as contemporary with and opponent of Seth. The falcon's eyes stood for the sun and the moon. He later was considered the son of Isis and Osiris, with the reigning pharaoh being his incarnation. Horus is one of the oldes...

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Horus

Four Sons of Horus

The Egyptian gods who protected the internal organs of the deceased. From the 19th Dynasty, canopic jars' lids were shaped as the heads of these gods. Wax figures of these deities were often contained within the mummy wrappings, sometimes the appropriate figure was placed with the wrapped, prepar...

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Four Sons of Horus

Kentauros

In Greek mythology, a race of creatures, part horse and part man, dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. It had a human head and arms and upper body and the four legs and lower body of a horse.

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Kentauros

Khepri

The ancient sun god, conceived as a great scarab beetle rolling the sun across the heavens, whose cult was centered at Heliopolis. This deity is sometimes depicted in tomb painting and funerary papyri as a man with a scarab as a head or as a scarab in a boat held aloft by Nun. This was just one o...

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Khepri

Sons of Horus

Four deities - jackal-headed Duamutef, falcon-headed Qebehsenuf, human-headed Imset, and baboon-headed Hapy - who were responsible for protecting the internal organs of the deceased in canopic jars. The jars were decorated with sculpted human heads and from the 19th dynasty until the end of the N...

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Sons of Horus

Harshaf

An ancient Egyptian and Greek ram-headed god whose cult center was at Herakleopolis Magna. A shrine was built in the 1st Dynasty (3100-2890 BC) according to the Palermo Stone. Harshaf was a fertility god.

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Harshaf

Baal

A god worshipped in many ancient Middle Eastern places and the most important deity of the Canaanites. He was first mentioned in inscriptions of the Middle Bronze Age, middle of the 2nd millennium BC, and was depicted as a young armed warrior with bull's horns coming from his helmet. He was the f...

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Baal

Horns of Consecration

A common religious symbol of the Minoans, based on the horns of a sacrificed bull. It frequently topped walls or shrines in the palace of Knossos, or was found in sanctuaries and other buildings, and was made of alabaster or other stone. Horns of consecration also appear in artistic depictions.

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Horns of Consecration

Maat

The ancient Egyptian goddess of truth and order, whose symbol was the ostrich feather. She represented order, balance, correct attitudes and thinking, morality and justice. It was the feather of Maat against which the heart of the deceased was weighed. The power of Maat was said to regulate the s...

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Maat

Ra

The supreme god of ancient Egypt before his displacement by Amen (Amun). He was sun god and deity of the city of Heliopolis, whose cult is first attested in the name of the 2nd Dynasty ruler Raneb (c 2865 BC). Ra is depicted as a hawk-headed man with a sun disc on his head. He was especially impo...

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Ra

Caryatid

A supporting base or column of a structure shaped in the form of a woman. Most often, a caryatid supported a porch, entablature, or a colonnade and was in the form of a draped woman bearing it on her head. The best known are of the Erechtheum at Athens (420-415 BC) and other examples part of thre...

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Caryatid

Mnevis

In ancient Egyptian religion, the sacred bull regarded as the ba ('power' or physical manifestation) of the sun-god at Heliopolis. As one of several sacred bulls in Egypt, he was most closely associated with the sun god Re-Atum. There was only one Apis, Buchis, or Mnevis bull at any one time. Alt...

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Mnevis