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Seth A

Overview of Greek Religion - ReligionFacts - 0 views

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  • . The cult practices of the Hellenes extended beyond mainland Greece to the islands and coasts of Ionia in Asia Minor, to Magna Graecia (Sicily and southern Italy) and to scattered Greek colonies in the Western Mediterranean, such as Massilia (Marseille). Greek examples tempered Etruscan cult and belief to inform much of Roman religion.
  • Different cities worshipped different deities: Athens had Athena; Sparta had Artemis; Corinth was a center for the worship of Aphrodite; Delphi and Delos had Apollo; Olympia had Zeus, and so on down to the smaller cities and towns.
  • Identity of names was not even a guarantee of a similar cultus; the Greeks themselves were well aware that the Artemis worshipped at Sparta, the virgin huntress, was a very different deity from the Artemis who was a many-breasted fertility goddess at Ephesus
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  • The temples of the Greek religion generally were not public gathering places where people gathered socially for collective indoor prayer; most temples were little more than boxes that held a cult idol of the deity
  • When we are told in studies of mythology that "horses are sacred to Poseidon" or roosters to Hermes, what this meant first and foremost was that these animals were customarily offered as sacrifices to those gods.
  • Votives were gifts offered to the gods by their worshippers. They were often given for benefits already conferred or in anticipation of future divine favors.
  • Theology did not come naturally to a faith this diverse and essentially local.
  • Syncretism was an essential feature of Greek paganism
  • Those whose spiritual leanings were not satisfied by the public cult of the gods could turn to various mystery religions. Here, they could find religious consolations that the traditional cultus could not provide: a systematic religious doctrine, an attractive afterlife, a communal worship, and a band of spiritual fellowship. Some of these mysteries, like the mysteries of Eleusis and Samothrace, were ancient and local. Others were spread from place to place, like the mysteries of Dionysus. During the Hellenistic period and the Roman Empire exotic mystery religions like those of Osiris and Mithras became widespread.
Seth A

Religion - 1 views

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Greek gods Religion

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    an overview of gods
Nicholas S

Brief History of the Olympic Games - 0 views

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olympic religion greece

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  • Nicholas S on 04 Dec 09
     
    This is an interesting article. It tells us how religion effected the olympic games.
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    how did it affect them
Seth A

Ancient Greek Cult- How the Greek gods were praised in Ancient Greece - 0 views

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  • Would a god find out that a human did not praise him like he should, the punishment was usually heavy and oftentimes eternal, like in the case of Meropis, who was transformed by Athena, the goddess of wisdom, into an owl because of her impudence.
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      Seth A on 10 Dec 09
       
      oh my
  • "perirrhanteria", which was a marble water basin set up near altars
  • for ritual purification of the worshippers and to spinkle the sacrificed animals
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  • they would kneel down to the earth, powerfully hitting the earth with their hands in order to be heard loudly.
  • The ancient Greeks would pray on their feet, with their hands up to the sky
  • ancient Greeks asked for help and support from the god or the goddess they were referring to, reminding them all the good deeds they had done for them.
  • They offered goods such as wine, oil, milk, sweets and nuts and sacrificed rams, ewes, cows, bulls, goats, depending on what they believed that their gods preferred.
  • it had even come to attempts of human sacrifices, in order to worship deities such as Hades or Artemis, the goddess of the hunt.
David P

Greek mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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greece philosophy art mythology

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  • Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece. Modern scholars refer to the myths and study them in an attempt to throw light on the religious and political institutions of Ancient Greece, its civilization, and to gain understanding of the nature of myth-making itself.[1]
  • Greek mythology is embodied explicitly in a large collection of narratives and implicitly in representational arts, such as vase-paintings and votive gifts. Greek myth explains the origins of the world and details the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and other mythological creatures. These accounts initially were disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition; today the Greek myths are known primarily from Greek literature.
  • Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson has urged
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    wikipedia
Trey D

christianity - 0 views

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religon jesus class christian

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    religon
Bob Rowan

IFANCA: What Is In Our Food - 1 views

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food religion Islam Social Studies reference

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  • ometimes the questionable ingredients such as alcohol; enzymes; fats and gelatin are not clearly listed but are hidden in flavorings
  • Sometimes the questionable ingredients such as alcohol; enzymes; fats and gelatin are not clearly listed but are hidden in flavorings
  • vegetable materials
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  • meat from humanely-handled halal animals
  • Fish and most seafood
  • Milk and eggs
  • we all refrain from consuming items such as
  • Alcoholic drinks
  • Meat of dead animal
  • Blood
  • Classification Of Foods:
    • Bob Rowan
      Bob Rowan on 14 Apr 10
       
      See below for acceptable foods for Muslims
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    Foods the are acceptable for Muslims from the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America
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    Foods the are acceptable for Muslims from the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America
Trey D

heros - 0 views

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heros greece ancient greece religion

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    there heros so holar
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    Yankees hahaha
Trey D

Hero - 0 views

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greece heros religion art olympics

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    its about heros and how cheese steak over comes the ketchup haaha
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    DEEEEG
Seth A

Gods and Godesses - 1 views

www.greek-gods.info

Religion(gods-godesses)

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    awsomeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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    Explains practices and gods and myths
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    and godesses
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