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A number of Lydian religious concepts may well go back to the Early Bronze Age and even Late Stone Age, such as the vegetation goddess Kore, the snake and bull cult, the thunder and rain god and the double-axe as a sign of thunder, the mountain mother goddess (Mother of Gods) assisted by lions, associable or not to the more debated Kuvava .
Due to the meagre evidence for Lydian religious spaces, little is known about their shapes, sizes, administration, and location: [105] Lydian cultic spaces ranged from small places of worship to prestigious temples of the state cult which also had a political role, [105] although the evidence for them dates from after the end of Lydian ...
Human Transgression – Divine Retribution A study of religious transgressions and punishments in Greek cultic regulations and Lydian-Phrygian reconciliation inscriptions by Aslak Rostad; The curse of the law and the crisis in Galatia: reassessing the purpose of Galatians by Todd A Wilson
The siege of Sardis (547/546 BC) was the last decisive conflict after the Battle of Thymbra, which was fought between the forces of Croesus of Lydia and Cyrus the Great, when Cyrus followed Croesus to his city, laid siege to it for 14 days and captured it.
Lydia Sherman (December 24, 1824 – May 16, 1878), née Danbury, [1] also known as The Derby Poisoner, [2] was an American serial killer.She poisoned eight children in her care (six of whom were her own) and her three husbands and was convicted of second-degree murder in 1872. [3]
The temple of Artemis in Sardis, capital of Lydia. The early Lydian religion exhibited strong connections to Anatolian as well as Greek traditions. [2]Although Lydia had been conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire in c. 547 BC, native Lydian traditions were not destroyed by Persian rule, and most Lydian inscriptions were written during this period.
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Pactyes the Lydian was put in charge of the civil administration of Lydia, under the Persian satrap Tabalus.. Pactyes was the Lydian put in charge of civil administration and gathering Croesus's gold when Lydia was conquered by Cyrus the Great of Persia around 546 BC: