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In ancient Rome, a tintinnabulum (less often tintinnum) [1] was a wind chime or assemblage of bells. A tintinnabulum often took the form of a bronze ithyphallic figure or of a fascinum, a magico-religious phallus thought to ward off the evil eye and bring good fortune and prosperity. A tintinnabulum acted as a door amulet.
The tintinnabulum is one of the three physical signs that indicate that a church is a lesser basilica. The other two signs are the umbraculum (conopaeum) and a display of the papal symbol. [2] In the Middle Ages it served the practical function of alerting the people of Rome to the approach of the Pope during papal processions. [citation needed]
Ancient Romans used tintinnabulum as a way to protect against the “evil or jealous eye,” he said. A photo shows the partially excavated tintinnabulum, a “magical” phallus-shaped wind chime.
A tintinnabulum is a bell in a Roman Catholic Basilica. Tintinnabulum may also refer to: Tintinnabulum (Ancient Rome), a wind chime; Tintinnabuli, a music compositional style devised by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt "Tintinnabulum", a song on the album Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary by Karl Jenkins; Dendropsophus tintinnabulum, a species of frog
Adiemus" was used in the trailer to the Invisible Children documentary film and featured in the titles of the 1996 BBC children's series Testament: The Bible in Animation. [11] That same year, it was used in the Baywatch episode "Beauty and the Beast". [12] "Tintinnabulum" was sampled in Solarstone's 1999 Ibiza trance anthem "Seven Cities". [13]
The Household Bible Dictionary [42] James Aitken Wylie: 1870 Beeton's Bible Dictionary [43] Samuel Orchart Beeton: 1871 A Bible dictionary for the use of all readers and students of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments of the books of the Apocrypha [44] Charles Boutell: Reissued as Haydn's Bible Dictionary (1879), named for Joseph ...
In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...
The Bible [a] is a collection of religious texts and scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, and partly in Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The texts ...