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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
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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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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Atlas
In Greek architecture, male figures which were so called for the story of Titan Atlas, in which humans were used instead of columns to support entablatures, balconies, or other projections. Such figures are posed as if supporting great weights, just as Atlas was bearing the world. The female coun...
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Atlas
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Muse
Musalar, Yunan mitolojisindeki ilham perileridir. Yunanca “mousa”, Latince “Musa” olarak adlandırılırlar. Bazı kaynaklarda “Müzler” olarak da karşımıza çıkarlar. “Mousa” kelimesi kökeni Yunanca akıl, düşünce, yaratıcılık gücü kavramlarını içeren “men” kökünden gelmektedir. Yalnızca şairlere şiirl...
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Muse
THE MOUSAI (Muses) were the goddesses of music, song and dance, and the source of inspiration to poets. They were also goddesses of knowledge, who remembered all things that had come to pass. Later the Mousai were assigned specific artistic spheres: Kalliope (Calliope), epic poetry; Kleio (Clio),...
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Muse
The Muses, according to the earliest writers, were the inspiring goddesses of song, and, according to later noticus, divinities presiding over the different kinds of poetry, and over the arts and sciences. They were originally regarded as the nymphs of inspiring wells, near which they were worshi...
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Muse
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Ketos
Yunanca büyük deniz yaratıkları için kullanılan ad. Ketos balina anlamına da gelir.
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Ketos
Cetus or Ketos. A sea monster like fish or whale.
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Ketos
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Satyr
Yunan ve Roma dininde yarı tanrı olarak kabul edilen mitolojik figür. Acımasız, şehvetli bir yüz ve keçi ayaklarına benzer ayaklar ile kıllı bir bedenle tasvir edilir.
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Satyr
A mythological figure. A demigod of the Greeks and Romans, whose characteristics were a brutal, sensual face, the feet of a goat and a hairy body. His head was covered with unkempt hair, from underneath which horns sprouted. Statues and masks of satyrs were frequently used as a decoration....
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Satyr
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Kerykeion
Hermes'in taşıdığı barış simgesi asa. Yunan ve Roma uygarlıklarında haberciler ile elçilerin dokunulmazılığı belirten bir nişandı. Başlangıçta, ucunda iki filiz bulunan, genellikle çelenk ya da kurdelelerle süslenmiş bir değnek ya da zeytin dalı biçimindeydi. Daha sonra çelenkler, yüz yüze gelece...
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Kerykeion
The wand held by Hermes or a herald, topped by a closed circle and open circle at its top. Also called the caduceus in Latin.
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Kerykeion
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Pandia
PANDEIA (Pandia) was a daughter of the sky-god Zeus and the moon-goddess Selene. She was perhaps the goddess of the full moon (panselênê in Greek), the earth-nourishing dew (hersê) or youth. Several other writers mention a daughters of Zeus and Selene named Ersa (Dew) and Nemeia. It is not clear...
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Pandia
Her yıl Munykhion ayının 19'unda Zeus ve ay tanrıçası onuruna kutlanan Attika festivali.
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Pandia
An Athenian festival established by Pandion, in honour of Jupiter. It was celebrated soon after the Dionysia.
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Pandia
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Kriophoros
Hermes'i omzunda koç taşır biçimde betimleyen Antik heykel tipi.
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Kriophoros
Ancient sculpture type that depicts Hermes as carrying rams on his shoulder.
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Kriophoros
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Xanthos
Podarge ve Zephyrus’dan doğma ölümsüz at. Xanthos ve kardeşi Balius, Hera tarafından Castor’a verilmiştir. Daha sonra Poseidon onları bir düğün hediyesi olarak Akhilleus'un babası Peleus'a vermiştir. Truva Savaşı sırasında, Xanthus ve Balius Akhilleus'un savaş arabasını çekmiştir....
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Xanthos
Kula at anlamına gelen Ksanthos Akhilleus'un ölümsüz atlarından biridir. Patroklos'la Hektor arasındaki savaşa Balios'la birlikte katılır ve Patroklos öldükten sonra ağlar. Akhilleus'a Hektor'la savaşında da yardım eden bu ölümsüz at dile gelerek efendisine yakında öleceğini bildirir.
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Xanthos
Balios and Xanthos were a pair of immortal horses which the hero Peleus received from Poseidon at his marriage to the goddess Thetis. They drew the chariot of the couple's son Akhilleus (Achilles) during the Trojan War.
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