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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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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Jadeite Axe

Thin highly polished unperforated implements, probably for ceremonial use. Examples date mainly from the 4th and 3rd millennia BC in northwest Europe.

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Jadeite Axe

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

Morphasmus

Antik dönemlere ait bir dans türü. Dans içerisinde birçok şekil ve duruşla Proteus'un metamorfozları taklit edilirdi.

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Morphasmus

A kind of dance among the ancients, wherein, by a great many figures and postures, they imitated the metamorphoses of Proteus.

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Morphasmus

Rhyton

A Greek vessel of earthenware, metal, or stone, and sometimes in the form of an animal head. It was a deep vessel with a single handle intended for the pouring of libations or liquid offerings to the gods and spirits ofthe dead. The mouth at the upper end is often balanced by a hole at the lower ...

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Rhyton

Törenlerde içki sunmak ya da tanrılara sıvı sunu (libasyon) yapmak amacıyla kullanılan hayvan biçimli özel kap. Minos ve Miken uygarlıklarında kurban törenlerinde kullanıldıkları ya da libasyon kabı oldukları sanılmaktadır. Şarap kabı olarak kullanıldıkları Yunan ve Roma dönemlerinde genellikle k...

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Rhyton

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

Sthenia

Zeus Sthenius onuruna kutlanan Yunan festivali.

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Sthenia

STHE′NIA (σθένια), a festival with contests celebrated by the Argives in honour of Zeus surnamed Sthenius, who had an altar consisting of a large rock in the neighborhood of Hermione. Plutarch states that the πάλη or wrestling, which formed a part of the contests at this festival, was accompanied...

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Sthenia

Lupercalia

Lupercalia was an ancient, possibly pre-Romanpastoral annual festival, observed in the city of Romebetween February 13 and February 15, to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility.

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Lupercalia

Roma'da Şubat ayında yapılan bayram, kentin temizlenmesini ve doğurganlık güçlerinin pekişmesini sağlıyordu.

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Lupercalia

Nemoralia

Tanrıça Diana (Artemis) onuruna düzenlenen festival. Meşaleler Festivali olarak da bilinir. Her yılın Ağustos ayında düzenlenir. 

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Nemoralia

The Nemoralia (also known as the Festival of Torches) is a three-day festival originally celebrated by the ancient Romans on the Ides of August (August 13–15) in honor of the goddess Diana. Although the Nemoralia was originally celebrated at the Sanctuary of Diana at Lake Nemi, it soon became mor...

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Nemoralia

Festivals celebrated in honour of Diana, who presided over woods and forests.

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Nemoralia

Oskhophoria

The Oskhophoria was a separate ceremony held on the same day as the Pyanepsia honored Dionysos and Athena Skira who protects the grape harvest.  The  celebration consisted mainly of a procession from a now unknown temple of Dionysos to the temple of Athena Skiras (at Phaleron).  Two young males d...

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Oskhophoria

Yunanistan'ın pek çok kentinde Pyanepsion ayında, Dionysos ve Ariadne veya Dionysos ve Athena onuruna kutlanan, bağbozumu festivali.

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Oskhophoria

Quinquatria

Roma'da Tanrıça Minerva onuruna her yıl 19 Mart'ta kutlanan festival. Festival beş gün sürer, ilk gün kan dökülmezdi. Daha sonraki günlerde ise gladyatör dövüşleri düzenlenirdi. Minerva onuruna düzenlenen bir başka festival ise Quinquatrus Minores adı verilen festivaldir. Bu festival Haziran ayın...

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Quinquatria

Quinquatrus or Quinquatria. Roman Festivals of Minerva, celebrated on the 19th of March. They lasted five days; on the first no blood was shed, but on the last four there were contests of gladiators. Another festival called Quinquatrus minores, also in honour of Minerva, was celebrated on the ide...

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Quinquatria

Minervalia

Minervalia, Roman festivals celebrated in January and March, in honour of Minerva, sometimes called Quinquatria. During this period scholars obtained relaxation from their studies, and generally gave presents to their tutors, which were called minervales, in honour of Minerva, the patroness of li...

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Minervalia

Daidala

Tanrıça Hera onuruna Kithairon Dağı'nda düzenlenen şenlik. Bu şenlik sırasında Hera'nın tahta bir tasviri önce gelin gibi giydirilerek taşınır, ardından gene Hera'ya kurban edilmiş hayvanlar ve odundan bir sunakla birlikte yakılırdı. Zeus'un, kendisinden uzaklaşan Hera'yı böyle bir tasvirle kıska...

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Daidala

The Daidala was an ancient Greek festival celebrated in the city of Plataiai in Boiotia during Archaic and Classical times in honor of the goddess Hera, the wife of Zeus. Once again, our main source of information about this festival is Pausanias’s Guide to Greece. According to Pausanias, as part...

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Daidala

Bacchanalia

Yunan ve Roma dininde, şarap tanrısı Bacchus (Dionysos) ile ilgili şenliklere verilen ad. En ünlü Dionysia şenlikleri Attika'da düzenlenirdi. Yalın ve eski ayinlerden oluşan küçük Dionysia, bir geçitle tiyatro gösterilerinin yer aldığı Lenaia, özünde bir içki şöleni olan Anthesteria, hepsinin en ...

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Bacchanalia

Bacchanalia, also called Dionysia, in Greco-Roman religion, any of the several festivals of Bacchus (Dionysus), the wine god. They probably originated as rites of fertility gods. The most famous of the Greek Dionysia were in Attica and included the Little, or Rustic, Dionysia, characterized by si...

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Bacchanalia

Argeorum Sacra

Argeorum Sacra'nın Yağmur Töreni, bir yağmur büyüsü ve kutsal törendir. Ekinlerin büyümesi için alması gereken yağışları sembolize etmek adına saman kuklalarının Tiber Nehri'ne atılmasıyla yapılan bir törendir.

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Argeorum Sacra

The Rain Ceremony of the Argeorum Sacra a similar rain charm and ceremony was practised in the curious ritual of the Argeorum Sacra which involved throwing puppets of straw into the River Tiber as a symbolic wetting of the crops.

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Argeorum Sacra