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What is now known as the planet Venus has long been an object of fascination for cultures worldwide. It is the second brightest object in the night sky, and follows a synodic cycle by which it seems to disappear for several days due to its proximity to the Sun, then re-appear on the opposite side of the Sun and on the other horizon.
Venus Obsequens ("Compliant Venus" [1]) was the first Venus for whom a shrine was built in ancient Rome. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Little is known of her cult [ 5 ] beyond the circumstances of her temple founding and a likely connection to the Vinalia Rustica , an August wine festival.
The wedding ceremony itself, and the state of lawful marriage, belonged to Juno – whose mythology allows her only a single marriage, and no divorce from her habitually errant spouse, Jupiter – but Venus and Juno are also likely "bookends" for the ceremony; Venus prepares the bride for "conubial bliss" and expectations of fertility within ...
Worship of heavenly bodies is in Islamic tradition strongly associated with Sabians who allegedly stated that God created the planets as the rulers of this world and thus deserve worship. [67] While the planetary worship was linked to devils ( shayāṭīn ), [ 68 ] abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi reported that the planets are considered angelic spirits ...
3D reconstruction of the temple as seen from the Colosseum. It was set on a platform measuring 145 metres (476 ft) x 100 metres (330 ft). The peripteral temple itself measured 110 metres (360 ft) x 53 metres (174 ft) and 31 metres (102 ft) high (counting the statues) and consisted of two main chambers (), each housing a cult statue of a god—Venus, the goddess of love, and Roma, the goddess ...
The Worship of Venus is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Titian completed between 1518 and 1519, housed at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. [1] It describes a Roman rite of worship conducted in honour of the goddess Venus each 1 April.
12: ceremonies at the Temple of Consus on the Aventine; 13 (Ides): dies natalis of the Temple of Tellus, and associated lectisternium for Ceres; 15: Consualia or Feriae for Consus, the second of the year; 17–23: Saturnalia in honour of Saturn, with the public ritual on the 17th; 18 Eponalia in honor of Epona; 19: Opalia in honor of Ops
In Valdivian indigenous shamanistic practices, small human figurines are transformed into holy objects that possess the power to cure disease. [5] It is possible that the Valdivian people may have created the figurines to "...serve a spiritual need, for a specific ritual or ceremonial event (most often assumed related to fertility), for a particular woman, or for the well-being of the home or ...