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The key to Bala's sarcophagus prison was entrusted to a creature of fire and stone called the Gatekeeper. In the present, a woman by the name of Tara Mehta , who is the unawakened Devi incarnate, lives a posh lifestyle alongside her boyfriend Iyam (who was the former favorite general of Bala during the ancient battle, and currently Sitapur's ...
The term idol is an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship, [1] [2] [3] while idolatry is the worship of an "idol" as though it were God. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Ancient Near East and Egypt
The Tell Brak Head is an important prehistoric Middle Eastern sculpture found at the ancient site of Tell Brak in Syria. It has been part of the British Museum's collection since 1939. [1] Dated by archaeologists to before 3300 BC, it is considered to be one of the oldest portrait busts from the Middle East. [2]
This deity was mentioned by the ninth century CE Muslim historian Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi, who wrote in the Book of Idols (Kitab al-Asnām) that: "The Banū al-Hārith ibn-Yashkur ibn-Mubashshir of the ʻAzd had an idol called Dū Sharā". Safaitic inscriptions mention animal sacrifices to Dushara, asking for a variety of services. [1]
[2] [4] [5] [6] The name is unknown in Mesopotamian sources, but it has been tentatively identified as the god of agriculture. [ 7 ] If "Nisroch" is Ninurta , this would make Ninurta's temple at Kalhu the most likely location of Sennacherib's murder. [ 6 ]
The Broddenbjerg idol, an ithyphallic forked-stick figure found in a peat bog near Viborg, Denmark, is carbon-dated to approximately 535–520 BCE. [2] The Braak Bog Figures , a male and female forked-stick pair found in a peat bog at Braak, Schleswig-Holstein , have been dated to the 2nd to 3rd centuries BCE but also as early as the 4th century.
A photograph – published in Marg (36/1, 1982) – remains the only evidence, reminding about the Pāla-figures from Bihar and Bengal. [29] Among the surviving specimens, Bodhisattva Lokanātha [30] (see Figure 2) from Tongibari of Munshigunj, Dhaka (in today's Bangladesh), is considered to be the oldest one. Both in terms of form and style ...
The earliest reference to Cermand Cestach is in the Life of Saint Macartan of Clogher (C.430-505 A.D.): "The Cloch-Oir (Golden Stone), from which this ancient diocese takes its name, was a sacred ceremonial stone to the druids, It was given to St. Macartin by an old pagan noble, who had harassed Macartin in every possible way until the saint's patient love won the local ruler to the faith.