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It could also be applied to protect a person who was declared sacrosanct . Those who harmed a sacrosanct person became sacer (accursed) through the declaration sacer esto! ("Let him be accursed"). The offender was considered as having harmed the gods or a god, as well as the sacrosanct person and therefore accursed to the gods or a god.
Communicatio in sacris; Ex opere operato; Omnium in mentem; Validity and liceity; Sacraments. Holy Orders. Impediment (Catholic canon law) Abstemius; Defect of birth
He admits his lower status in relation to the god, "who set your power about Chryse and Killa the sacrosanct, who are lord in strength over Tenedos" (Iliad, I, 451–3). Similar is Achilles' prayer to Zeus. Achilles holds a ritual, purifies himself, pours wine to his god, addresses Zeus in words of commendation and admits the nobler nature of ...
Being sacrosanct, no person could harm the tribunes or interfere with their activities. To do so, or to disregard the veto of a tribune, was punishable by death, and the tribunes could order the death of persons who violated their sacrosanctity. This could be used as a protection when a tribune needed to arrest someone.
The Epic of Gilgamesh from Sumer, although only considered by some scholars as a religious text, has origins as early as 2150 BCE, [14] and stands as one of the earliest literary works that includes various mythological figures and themes of interaction with the divine. [15] The Rigveda, a scripture of Hinduism, is dated 1500 BCE. It is one of ...
Later medieval examples tend to be more detailed and less generic than early ones, and to place an increasing emphasis on secular over religious aspects. For example, Bonvesin della Riva 's 1288 description of Milan, De Magnalibus Urbis Mediolani , contains a wealth of detailed facts and statistics about such matters as local crops.
In Western thought, sanctity of life is usually applied solely to the human species (anthropocentrism, sometimes called dominionism), in marked contrast to many schools of Eastern philosophy, which often hold that all animal life is sacred―in some cases to such a degree that, for example, practitioners of Jainism carry brushes with which to ...
Symbel and sumbl are Germanic terms for "feast, banquet".. Accounts of the symbel are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf (lines 489–675 and 1491–1500), Dream of the Rood (line 141) and Judith (line 15), Old Saxon Heliand (line 3339), and the Old Norse Lokasenna (stanza 8) as well as other Eddic and Saga texts, such as in the Heimskringla account of the funeral ale held by King Sweyn, or ...