Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In Germanic paganism, Baduhenna is a goddess. Baduhenna is solely attested in Tacitus's Annals where Tacitus records that a sacred grove in ancient Frisia was dedicated to her, and that near this grove 900 Roman soldiers were killed in 28 CE. Scholars have analyzed the name of the goddess and linked the figure to the Germanic Matres and Matronae.
After the initial onslaught, many Argive hoplites sought refuge in the ‘Sacred Grove of Apollo’. The Argive men hoped the religious value of the grove would prevent the Spartan forces pursuing further action. [6] However, Cleomenes I was by reputation ruthless, [17] and deceived the Argives to their death.
They are always associated with a sacred grove. The term Umang Lai is also used to refer to the sacred abodes of the deities. Nongshaba (ꯅꯣꯡꯁꯥꯕ), Lion God who protects humanity from evils. A son of Salailen. Konthoujam Tampha Lairembi (ꯀꯣꯟꯊꯧꯖꯝ ꯇꯝꯐꯥ), Queen of Heaven.
In his first century CE ethnography of the Germanic peoples, Roman senator Tacitus describes a sacred grove dedicated to the goddess Nerthus Germania: Grove of the Semnones: Possibly northern Germany According to Tacitus, the Semnones, a populous and powerful Germanic people, allowed none to enter the grove without being fettered and ...
Tacitus also includes a second myth: the Semnones believed that they originated in a sacred grove of fetters where a particular god dwelled (Germania chapter 39, for more on this see "Sacred trees, groves, and poles" below). [62] The only Nordic comprehensive origin myth is provided by the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning.
Nemetona, or 'she of the sacred grove', is a Celtic goddess with roots in northeastern Gaul. She is thought to have been the eponymous deity of the Germano - Celtic people known as the Nemetes ; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] evidence of her veneration is found in their former territory along the Middle Rhine [ 1 ] [ 4 ] as well in the Altbachtal sanctuary in ...
A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed. They occur commonly in polytheistic religions. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been portrayed in their mythologies as commanding war in order to spread religion.
The consort of Mars Loucetius is Nemetona, whose name may be understood as pertaining either to "sacred privilege" or to the sacred grove , [172] and who is also identified with the goddess Victoria. At the Romano-British site in Bath , a dedication to Mars Loucetius as part of this divine couple was made by a pilgrim who had come from the ...