#temple dedication

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Statue of the intendant Ebih-Il.

Place of discovery: Mari temple of Ishtar courtyard 20

Date: 2500-2340 B.C.

Period: Archaic dynasty IIIB

Medium: Alabaster, shell, lapis lazuli, bitumen

▪︎ Inscription/Dedication (in Akkadian): "Statue of Ebih-Il, the Steward, to Ishtar he dedicated it".

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #ancient sculpture #ancient history #archaeology #assyria #akkadian #statue of intendant #mari temple of Ishtar #Ebih-Il #praying #dedication #2500 b.c. #2340 b.c.

[mumblesplash]

don’t you hate it when your civilization flees deep underground to escape the wither only to find yourselves trapped down there with something even worse. anyway surprise! i can still draw

#my art #minecraft #minecraft fanart #minecraft ancient cities #they named it the warden because they were its prisoners i will die on this hill #see fellas when i said i was brainrotting about ancient cities i meant like advanced stages of decay #Bad Syndrome: instead of a brain there is sculk #i'm still pondering additional designs for like guards/soldiers and redstone specialists etc #also yeah i was like ok time to design generic ancient city residents for outfit concepts #and bc i'm me they immediately became Characters and now it's a whole thing #their names are echo and felix and they hate each other <3 #echo was actually a temple kid like felix growing up but he fled to the outer city due to irreconcilable differences w the sculk worshippers #felix keeps trying to convince him to come back bc he was one of their most talented alchemists #they don't quite have echo's talent for magic but they make up for it in charisma and violent tendencies #neither of which have yet proved effective in convincing echo to come work for them #these days he mostly dedicates his potion skills to making life a bit more bearable for outer city residents #he got the nickname 'echo' due to his knack for inducing realistic auditory hallucinations of dead loved ones #...i TOLD you it turned into a whole thing #i also have a pet theory that ancient cities invented skeleton horses bc they needed horses but also leather and meat #but that's mostly bc i think the phrase 'have your horse and eat it too' is rly funny

[my-name-is-apollo]

Not only did Apollo share his place at Delphi with Dionysus, he also dedicated it's threshold to Athena because she helped him during his purification (for killing Python)

Aristonous, Paean to Apollo

You can conveniently imagine Athena and Dionysus making Delphic temple their "Esoteric birth club" room.

Also given how Hestia is often shown being in the temple of Delphi in her hymns, she probably also hangs out with them.

#Athena #Apollo #Dionysus #According to Wikipedia it's the temple of Athena Pronaia #that Apollo dedicated to Athena #and it's the first thing piligrims coming from the east saw #also given the history Apollo has with building things himself #it's even more sweet to imagine that he built that temple himself #also I just love unlikely gods hanging out together #Athena and Dionysus? polar opposites #what kind of things would they discuss? hmm #apollo info #hcs #mine

[blueiskewl]

Temple Dedicated to Alexander the Great Discovered in Iraq

Archaeologists uncovered signs that Alexander the Great was worshipped as a divine figure in a 4,000-year-old temple in Iraq.

Scientists had been puzzled by the discovery of more recent Greek inscriptions at the ancient Sumerian temple of Girsu, in the modern-day town of Tello.

Now, British Museum archaeologists believe a Greek temple to Alexander the Great was founded on the site, possibly by Alexander himself.

The discovery of a silver coin minted around 330 BCE by Alexander’s troops suggests that the conqueror may have visited the temple after defeating the Persians.

This would make founding the temple one of the last acts of Alexander’s life, shortly before his death at the age of 32.

After excavations began in the 19th century, it appeared that a Greek structure may have been built on the site but the only evidence was a mysterious tablet.

In both Greek and Aramaic the tablet read: ‘Adad-nadin-aḫḫe’ meaning ‘giver of the two brothers’.

What puzzled researchers was that the temple had been abandoned in 1750 BCE, more than 1,000 years before Alexander the Great had even been born.

The Greeks of Alexander the Great bult temple on the Iraqi site

British Museum archaeologist Dr Sebastien Rey now believes that the Greeks had founded their own temple on the ancient site, potentially to declare the divinity of Alexander.

“It is truly mind-blowing. Our discoveries place the later temple in Alexander’s lifetime,” said Dr Rey.

“We found offerings, the kinds of offerings that would be given after a battle, figures of soldiers and cavalrymen.

“There is a chance, we will never know for certain, that he might have come here, when he returned to Babylon, just before he died,” Dr Rey told The Telegraph.

The discovery of the silver coin alongside an altar with offerings usually found in Greek temples implies the site was being used as a place of worship by Alexander’s forces.

The offerings included terracotta cavalrymen which were very similar to the ‘Companion Cavalry’ which formed the personal bodyguard of the young conqueror.

The researchers say this could mean that whoever made the offerings was very close to Alexander, or that these were possibly made by the conqueror himself.

Meaning of the Greek inscription

The discoveries also shed light on the meaning of the cryptic Greek inscription found at the site which referred to the ‘giver of the two brothers’.

Alexander the Great had an immense personal interest in the figure of Hercules and had declared himself the Son of Zeus while in Egypt, making him the brother of the mythical hero.

Alexander may have asked the Sumerian people who most resembled Hercules within their culture and been directed to the temple of Ningirsu the warrior God.

Dr Rey believes that the temple was dedicated to Zeus and the two brothers, a combined figure of Hercules and Ningursu, and Alexander the Great.

‘This site honours Zeus and two divine sons. The sons are Heracles and Alexander. That is what these discoveries suggest,’ says Dr Rey.

This theory also suggests that ancient cultures had a deep understanding of their history and a long cultural memory, knowing the exact location of the temple and its use over a millennium after it was abandoned.

The city of Girsu was part of Sumer, one of the world’s most ancient civilizations that built the first cities and created the first codes of law.

While the site of the city had been badly damaged by 20th-century conflict and destructive excavations by French archaeologists in the 19th-century, remote sensing technology suggested a larger, hidden complex.

In the Autumn of 2022, a team of researchers found walls and administrative records of a huge palace and the sanctuary where the Greek temple was later constructed.

By Tasos Kokkinidis.

#Temple Dedicated to Alexander the Great Discovered in Iraq #ancient Sumerian temple of Girsu #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #greek history #greek heroes #greek gods #greek art

[godsopenwound]

#i miss her i say #and it’s an ancient temple dedicated to a goddess who was worshipped only at this sanctuary on the top of a hill in a greek island #m

[putridbenny]

ancient demon au fun fact: bad and foolish meet for the first time sometime between 1500 and 1000 BC.

Bad is exploring some old abandoned temple, as usual, when he finds a small golden totem with big emerald eyes placed on a wall, engravings of sun rays and stars around it. He doesn't know what it means, in fact at this time he can't really communicate with speech yet, but he obviously takes the totem anyway because it's shiny, releasing with a blinding bright light a long dormant entity from his eternal peaceful sleep.

Foolish was literally living in what was equivalent to heaven to him, when suddenly he wakes up in a dirty old temple, and is now doomed to live in the mortal world for eternity, bound to always reencounter the demon who released him no matter how far he travels. For centuries Bad insists he actually released Foolish from eternal agony because surely that totem form must not be comfortable and he should be grateful that bad was there to save him lol

#ancient beast au #badboyhalo #in this au there's an entire ancient aliens episode dedicated to this moment because some random dude happened to be hiding at the temple #saw the whole thing and documented about it lol

[akkivee]

within the first hour of the episode’s release btw, fans were able to figure out that

kuukou’s temple wasn’t far up a mountain as suggested in auxiliary media and more like at a halfway point

found a shop that looks exactly like the one kuukou’s looking into in the same area

written a mini dissertation on what the intended purpose of using that egyptian mural with bat

and man the bat community is cool lol

#vee queued to fill the void #hypanispoilers #there’s a popular bat fan who has like actually studied buddhism in college and has even written a book about the buddhism kuukou sings #and they’re putting in the work studying kuukou thru the lens of buddhism lol #kuukou in his first radio mentioned his temple is in the boonies and he says this sentiment again in the episode #so they’re now trying to figure out if kuukou genuinely means the temple is poor or is expressing humility in front of guests #and i wish them luck lol i’ve long decided kuugen temple is a little on the poorer side and is PART of the reason kuukou pushes modernism #i’m excited to hear if there’s another take lol #by now they’ve also found the shop bb bought their mitarashi dango from lmao and if it was possible for me i would go visit lmao #i love how dedicated fans are to finding the locations in franchises lol #i remember after kuukou’s first radio aired he signed out by asking us for our patronage at the temple #and a fan went ‘i would sell my kidney and limbs if that’s what it takes to find out where your temple is kuukou’ AND LMAO YEAH

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Nehemiah Dedicates the Wall

27 Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings and singing, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps. 28 And the sons of the singers gathered together from the countryside around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites, 29 from the house of Gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had built themselves villages all around Jerusalem. 30 Then the priests and Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

31 So I brought the leaders of Judah up on the wall, and appointed two large thanksgiving choirs. One went to the right hand on the wall toward the Refuse Gate. 32 After them went Hoshaiah and half of the leaders of Judah, 33 and Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, 34 Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah, 35 and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets—Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph, 36 and his brethren, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them. 37 By the Fountain Gate, in front of them, they went up the stairs of the City of David, on the stairway of the wall, beyond the house of David, as far as the Water Gate eastward.

38 The other thanksgiving choir went the opposite way, and I was behind them with half of the people on the wall, going past the Tower of the Ovens as far as the Broad Wall, 39 and above the Gate of Ephraim, above the Old Gate, above the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they stopped by the Gate of the Prison.

40 So the two thanksgiving choirs stood in the house of God, likewise I and the half of the rulers with me; 41 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Minjamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; 42 also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loudly with Jezrahiah the director.

43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and the children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar off.

Temple Responsibilities

44 And at the same time some were appointed over the rooms of the storehouse for the offerings, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them from the fields of the cities the portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who ministered. 45 Both the singers and the gatekeepers kept the charge of their God and the charge of the purification, according to the command of David and Solomon his son. 46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chiefs of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. 47 In the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah all Israel gave the portions for the singers and the gatekeepers, a portion for each day. They also consecrated holy things for the Levites, and the Levites consecrated them for the children of Aaron. — Nehemiah 12:27-47 | New King James Version (NKJV) The Holy Bible; New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. Cross References: Numbers 1:8; Numbers 18:21; Deuteronomy 18:8; Deuteronomy 20:5; 1 Kings 8:63; 2 Kings 7:10; 2 Kings 14:13; 1 Chronicles 6:40; 1 Chronicles 9:16; 1 Chronicles 9:33; 1 Chronicles 25:1; 2 Chronicles 8:14; 2 Chronicles 29:30; Ezra 3:11; Nehemiah 2:13-14; Nehemiah 13:4-5; Nehemiah 3:8; Nehemiah 3:11; Nehemiah 3:15; Nehemiah 3:26; Nehemiah 11:23; Nehemiah 13:10; Nehemiah 13:22; Nehemiah 13:30; Psalm 9:2; Psalm 92:4; Psalm 137:4; John 5:2

#Jerusalem #wall #dedication #service #Temple #provision #Nehemiah 12:27-47 #Book of Nehemiah #Old Testament #NKJV #New King James Version Bible #Thomas Nelson

[todayintokyo]

Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park, Tokyo

#that's Benten-dō in the background #temple on island in pond #dedicated to Benzaiten #patron of art & music #my photos #Canon EOS photos

[swallowtail-ageha]

Forever fucked up by the statue of nero's daughter claudia augusta who died at four months old that shows what she could have looked like if she had lived

#dead children's memorials in ancient times deeply fuck me up #its all too easy to forget when you're studying history #that all those people you read about are humans with human emotions and that felt happy and sad #apparently nero was so happy at her birth that he gave her the title augusta #and her death devastated him so much that he named her a goddess and dedicated several temples to her #to make sure she wouldn't be forgotten #this also reminds me of cicero's reactions after tulliola's death #and how he said that she should be glorofied as the heroes of the trojan cycle were #waaah i spend too much time crying about important political figures in rome who outlived their children lmfao #tagamemnon

[light-of-laurelin]

If you say you’re anti Zionist but wishing us a Happy Hanukkah what you’re really saying is you haven’t the first clue about the history of the holiday or even the basic meaning of the word Hanukkah and we ARE laughing at you. Just so you know.

#In case you don’t want to do two seconds of googling the word means Dedication. #As in the dedication of a recently defiled temple in your holy land that you just fought to get back from the Assyrian Greeks. #Some 700 years before Mohammad was even born btw just as an aside #Just as a fun fact that may or may not be relevant to anything #jumblr #Anyway #hanukkah sameach

[onebizarrekai]

there's an entire temple dedicated to the maintenance of the seasons in holodrum and protecting the rod of seasons and its four spirits. meanwhile nayru is just keeping the harp of ages in her basement

#legend of zelda #random stuff #oracle of seasons #oracle of ages #I'm replaying the oracle games right now #humans could make a temple dedicated to the easily understood cycle of seasons (which are kind of supernatural in this game) #time is only understood by the hippie singer who lives in the woods and is important enough to have a triforce barrier protecting her home #dude. oracle of ages is so much more grim than seasons #people in ages are like 'my husband left to go work on the evil tower. I'm never going to see him again' #a city got destroyed by an eruption in ages and you need to go back in time to save it #some kid got turned to stone and his grandma won't leave his side #meanwhile in seasons sure a city got flooded because of icecaps melting but everyone is ok. nobody needed to evacuate #there is silly music playing in the bg. and a legendary diver guy who lives there #despite the little girl with no parents to speak of stranded at the entrance eternally blowing bubbles because she can't swim #and the fact that there's a monster fortress right outside town preventing anyone from evacuating #I mean. despite the flooding the game makes it seem like the city was always 90% water

[bumblingbabooshka]

K I’m not too deep into voyager yet but I always imagined T’pel as having the same kinda fanatical religious streak as Tuvok. I think they both go weak in the knees for the teaching of surak in a very unlogical way you know? I imagine her as a Vulcan whose maybe too enthusiastic about being one. She’d go on and on to whoever would listen in a monotone voice about how great logic is and excuse it by saying she’s teaching them or something but she’s just really passionate about it lol. Her and Tuvok go on dates and just do Vulcan Bible study for five hours.

From the little of her I’ve seen in the show I think of her as being heavily invested in Vulcan culture and tradition as well, again to the point of it being less logical and more emotional. Like she’d do something in a way that was super tedious just because she wants to do it in a traditional way to preserve and experience history.

also she’s got a lot of that tuvok hater streak in her. She will be petty about how much more she knows about certain topics!! She will gossip about how illogical other Vulcans are being!!

He wants a church girl who goes to church aN readsER Bible!!!

#Girl who only reads the surakian texts: This reminds me of the surakian texts.... #you know this T'Pelhehhe HATES the crew of Voyager.... #I love her so much...I agree with everything she says even when it's snarky and used against me <3 #T'Pel: You will NEVER believe how illogical a colleague of mine was being v_v <- absolutely in the wrong #Tuvok on Voyager glances to the side to share a snide look with T'Pel only to remember she's not there....sigh.... #also YES I'm glad someone else is acknowledging Tuvok's religious streak bc my guy really programmed a whole TEMPLE to go to #which to me reads as more dedicated and religious than other Vulcans we've seen who are content to meditate in their quarters #You're not far enough into Voyager to know this so I won't spoil it butlike...the only real piece of info we get about T'Pel fits #this interpretation very well <3 #WELCOME to temple study we're all children of Surak...kaaaiiidith m'lord..... #I can picture this T'Pel storming down a hall expressionlessly on her way to inform Tuvok of something...young people can be SO impertinent #these days!! #She'd absolutely view Tuvok's lapse in logic but subsequent return and strengthening of it to be SO inspirational <3<3 lovebirds #bee doodles #Q&A #anon #Tuvok/T'Pel #heretheretpels

[know-the-way]

Alright, so I’ve kept an open tab where I’ve been scrolling the Miss Fisher tag for a while. I’m now back in the depths of 2015 while everyone was awaiting the series 3 finale and my God at the ANXIETY I feel for y’all. lol I’m sitting here in the future knowing what happens and even I’m like, “omg they’ve built it up for nothing… we’ve been bamboozled - phrack’s not gonna happen, this is fucked up.”

The reviewers and journalists who released teasers during that time were a special kind of evil. They put y’all THROUGH it. Like, damn. I’m so sorry for your suffering. And thank you for your service.

Fuck. lol

#all the interviews and articles were constructed so pointedly at phrack shippers #just ripping hearts out indiana jones temple of doom-style and throwing ‘em into a fiery chasm like ‘fuck ur feelings!!!!’ lmao #it was so mean and for WHAT #also why did so many reviewers seem to hate nathan so much???? #they were just on his dick all the time #i understand why he has such a dedicated little army now #@ australian media circa 2015 - y’all were really out of pocket #and fuck you all actually lol #anyway #jealously is a disease bitch get well soon #… see now they’ve brought the schoolyard out of me #let me take a beat #deep breaths

[didoofcarthage]

View of the Roman Forum with the Column of Phocas and the Temple of Saturn and The Tiber at the Outskirts of Rome by Victor-Jean Nicolle

French, late 18th or early 19th century

pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over red chalk

Metropolitan Museum of Art x x 

#Ancient Rome #Roman Forum #Tiber #Temple of Saturn #Column of Phocas #(which is apparently the last addition made to the Forum in ancient times #dedicated to the Eastern Roman Emperor Phocas in the 7th century) #French #art #drawing #pen and ink #brush and wash #chalk #Victor-Jean Nicolle #ruins #Metropolitan Museum of Art

[hydranomago]

► でらすげぇ宴 (BAT) 

[Live Vids Masterlist]

#hypnosis mic #hypmic #seiyuu #bad ass temple #hayama shouta #sakakihara yuki #takeuchi eiji #kuko harai #jyushi aimono #hitoya amaguni #nagoya division #voice actors #live #hypmic live #their footwork their synced dance moves their sheer energy #BAT be winning #and their HAIR #that's dedication