...ant demon. Picture from the Timeless Theater archives, based on an ancient temple sculpture.]]
==Temple==
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...temple named Mannarasala in Alleppey district of Kerala. The deity in this temple embodies both Anantha and Vasuki into one.
...Naga and Nagakanya, Princess of the Naga kingdom is placed inside a single temple.
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==Temple==
...temple built in Manali, Himachal Pradesh for Ghatotkacha near Hidimba Devi Temple.
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[[Image:Okiku.jpg|thumb|Okiku doll at Mannenji temple]]
...family moved to Sakhalin, and they placed the doll in the care of Mannenji temple in the town of Iwamizawa (Hokkaido prefecture), where it has remained ever
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...ter of the god [[Faunus]] and she herself is often called Fauna. She had a temple on the Aventine Hill, but her secret rites (December 4) were not held there
...er attribute, a symbol of healing, and consecrated snakes were kept in her temple at Rome, indicating her phallic nature. Her image could often be found on c
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...rm behind on a nearby tree. There are two alleged Naree Pon pods in a Thai temple near Bangkok in Thailand.
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...ple claimed that Vahagn was their ancestor so they put his statue in their temple.
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Sogen was the name of a monk who lived at Mibudera, a temple in Kyoto. Because Sogen stole money and
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...in the forest came along the child and took him back to the Fukien Shaolin Temple. There he was raised by the monks who named him ''Su Kong Tai Jin''. They t
*[http://www.kingsport-shaolin.com/wst_page2.html Kingsport Shaolin Temple]
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[[Image:Longwang.JPG|thumb|200px|Temple of Dragon King, Summer Palace, Beijing]]
There are numerous temples dedicated to Dragon Kings in China. One temple in Beijing was built during the Yuan Dynasty and renovated in the early 21s
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The young Xuxuan was on his way by ferry to a temple on the bank of West Lake, in central China. It was early spring during the
...Ming Festival and there he met a Taoist priest. As they stood outside the temple talking, Madame White approached on a boat with her maid in blue to bring X
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...orshipped the Lingam; the Lingam is named after him as Airavateswara. This temple, which abounds in rare sculpture and architectural workmanship, was built b
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...d rescued the girls, turning them over to a local temple. The monks of the temple looked after the twins and gave them their names.
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...father. The son later constructed a statue of the lion as a guardian of a temple to atone for his sin.[citation needed]
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On February 15 (the founding date of his temple) his feast, the Lupercalia, was celebrated. Priests wearing goat skins walk
His festival, celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of his temple, February 14, was called the '''Lupercalia'''.
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...he name of Yamada Kurando Takakiyo (山田蔵人高清). He dedicated its horns to the temple, and they can still be seen to this day.
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As a Hindu goddess, Dānu has 2 temples in Bali, Indonesia: Pura Ulun Danu Temple on Lake Bratan, Bali and Ulun Danu Batur, near Penelokan.
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...statue of the dragon which is said to drink from the waterfall within the temple complex at nighttime. Therefore each year a ceremony is held to worship the
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...n the Shwe Zigon temple at Pagan during the late 19th century. Sir Richard Temple, the distinguished British administrator and scholar, had a set of teakwood
...heaven is of a kind of vastly enlarged village of Nat-houses. The Buddhist temple, which according to Indian precedent may be a symbolic representation of he
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...ng each of these Shaktipeeths. Each Shaktipeeth temple is accompanied by a temple dedicated to Bhairava.
...athmandu valley. All the traditional settlements of Newars have at least a temple of Bhairava. Most of the temples of Bhairava in Nepal are maintained by New
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*Bull Temple, Bangalore, Karnataka
*Hoysaleswara Temple, Halebidu, Karnataka
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Erez Temple was rich and the noblest of Armenia, according to Plutarch. During the expe
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...lion is believed to protect and guard the temples and ways leading to the temple. Generally they are positioned on both sides of an entrance. In south India
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...en forces himself between the two and lands crushing blows to each demon’s temple at the same time. They both die, this time for ever.
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* Kadiri Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple in Kadiri, Anantapur Dist, Andhra Pradesh.
...nabhaswamy temple - Lord NarasimhaMurthy is one of the main deities in the Temple.
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...large tree branch. The next morning, Tarōemon took the branch to a nearby temple. The resident priest told Tarōemon that the old tree in front of his house
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...of the Caliginous Order assigned to release the "ultimate power" from the Temple of Berthe. Pruflas is killed by the Blue Knights, a group of characters con
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Ohaguro-bettari usually appears at twilight usually in a shrine or temple outside of a town. There are also stories of one appearing in one's own hou
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[[Image:Haetae.jpg|thumb|right|A picture of a haetae taken at a Korean temple]]
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[[Image:serpopard.jpg|thumb|The Narmer Palette - Hierakonpolis (Horus Temple 'Main Deposit') - h. 63,5 cm]]
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*Another great snake, or dragon, was said to live in a pagan tower temple at Alabuga. Although the Bulgars adopted Islam as early as the tenth centur
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...ymphalian Artemis, however, they were represented as birds, and behind the temple there were white marble statues of maidens with birds' feet. (Paus. viii. 2
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...mprisoned the last of the rakoshi in caves in northern Bengal, and built a temple to [[Kali]] above. For generations, they kept and controlled the rakoshi. T
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...Navagunjara-Arjuna scene is sculpted at the northern side of the Jagannath Temple, Puri.
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...ew dedicated to Murugan in all of North India apart from the famous Pehowa temple in Haryana.
...ones are Payyannur Subrahmanya Swamy temple in Payyanur and the Subramanya temple in Haripad.
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...rice markings of that era and a nearby water pond. Nearby Padmalay Ganesh temple on the hills is also important tourist and pilgrim destination.
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...e to bless those around with virility, and so he was given a window in the temple through which he could be seen, and on certain holidays was led through the
...r, from the royal diaries (Arrian, Anabasis, VII. 26). Here, Serapis has a temple at Babylon, and is of such importance that he alone is named as being consu
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[[Image:Laonaga.JPG|thumb|right|200px|A naga guarding the Temple of Wat Sisaket in Vientiane, Laos]]
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...gend (de Visser 1913:180), when the Hōkō-ji 法興寺 or Asuka-dera 飛鳥寺 Buddhist temple was dedicated at Nara in 596, "a purple cloud descended from the sky and co
...d. De Visser (1913:181-184) lists accounts for Shitennō-ji in Osaka, Gogen Temple in Hakone, Kanagawa, and the shrine on Mount Haku where the Genpei Jōsuiki
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...evil old man who repented upon seeing a child praying in the ruins of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec, Syria.
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...s usually depicted as a kind of small oni. In sculpture, they are found in temple as tiny creatures the four kings stand upon.
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...ly flame called Makara Jyoti seems to appear in the skies at the prominent temple of Sabari Malai on that day.
*In the temple complex of Khajuraho in the north central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, t
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...y got away; and he deposited the skins of two of the female natives in the Temple of Juno [i.e. the Carthaginian goddess equivalent to Juno] as proof of the
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.... the "sand priest"; a héshàng is a Buddhist monk or priest in change of a temple; in Japanese, oshō). Now, he was clad in a Buddhist pilgrim's robe and his
...ation than Zhu, who is relegated to cleaning every altar at every Buddhist temple for eternity, but is still lower spiritually than Sun or Xuanzang, who are
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...[[Juno]]. In Rome, with Jupiter and Minerva she shared the most important temple in the city.
...Poseidon among the group at Paestum as identified in the 1950s as a second temple there of Hera.
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...n a single night. If, on the other hand, the oni failed to reach the local temple to which the stairs were to be built, they would have to leave Oga never to
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...of Vishnu, who jumped into the ocean to fight a demon. A statue in Keshava temple in Somnathpur, India depicts Matsya as a fish from the waist down. The fish
...consort was known only as Belatu, "Lady". Both were worshipped in a large temple complex called E-Mul, "House of the Star". One entire quarter of Ebla and o
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He was portrayed in paintings in Etruscan tombs as a hairy, bearded giant. A temple to Orcus may have existed on the Palatine Hill in Rome.
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Chrysaor was conceived on the floor of a temple to Athena who, enraged at the desecration, turned Medusa into a Gorgon. As
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...ing under him, a "Tortoise General" and a "Snake General." This king had a temple at Wudang Mountains in Hubei, thus there is a "Tortoise Mountain" and a "Sn
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...s not explicitly stated, but is generally accepted to mean Al-Aqsa Mosque (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem. At this location, Muhammad dismounted from the Buraq,
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...gantic horns. David vowed that if God saved his life, he would build Him a temple, a building as high as the Re'em himself. God heard him and sent a lion. As
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.... Rome erected temples to Hercules in the area, including the still extant Temple of Hercules Victor. It is believed that a large stone in the nearby church
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The temple of Tezcatlipoca was in the Great Precinct of Tenochtitlan. It was dark, and
...nd dancing. He would have had to have climbed the stairs to the top of the temple on his own where the priests would have seized him and sacrificed him. Imme
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===Yūrei-ga gallery at Zenshoan Temple===
*Zenshoan(全生庵) Temple in Tokyo, Japan is known for its collection of yūrei paintings, known as t
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...ated that over seven hundred statues of Sekhmet once stood in the funerary temple of [[Amenhotep III]], on the west bank of the [[Nile]]. It was said that he
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...r efforts are of no avail, let us seek out Ruiten, the chief priest of the temple called Miyô In, and beseech him to put up prayers for the recovery of my l
...man, should have so loyal a spirit. I am Ruiten, the chief priest of this temple, who am engaged in praying for the recovery of my lord. Pray what is your n
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...itionally believed that ghosts are afraid of Blumea). Mak then runs to the temple of Wat Mahabut, where Nak cannot enter the shrine. Nak subsequently terrori
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...lved ritual cannibalism, with human flesh being consumed in and around the temple.[1]
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...ng with Sharezer, who murdered their father while he was worshiping in the temple of his idol, Nisrach (2 Kings 19:36-38 cf. Isaiah 37:37-39).
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...me of an arch-demon who first appears in the literature of Israel's Second Temple Period and has gradually become an apocalyptic name for Satan.
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...ligion; Saturnalia was a festival dedicated in his honor, and at least one temple to Saturn existed in the early Roman Kingdom.
...is the last living titan who was made to carry the mountain which held The Temple of Pandora on his back. It is said that Kronos died after one thousand year
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...tion and renewal, it was connected with the Egyptian calendar. Indeed, the Temple of the Bennu was well known for its time-keeping devices.
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...rought for burial. Over 300,000 mummified cats were discovered when Bast's temple at Per-Bast was excavated.
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...onnected to an island which floated. On this island, ''Khemmis'', stood a temple to Apollo, but Herodotus dismissed the claim that it floated as merely the
...honour, the most famous of his sanctuaries being Olympia, the magnificent "Temple of Zeus", which held the gold and ivory statue of the enthroned Zeus, sculp
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*In Kashmir she is worshipped as ''Shaarika'' (the main temple is in Hari Parbat in Srinagar). The actual period of the worship however m
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...gious exercises in the Grotto of the Sounds of the Flood (present day Fayu Temple) on Mount Putuo.
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...ft his earthly life and took Samadhi but still resides in a chamber of the temple.
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...me Talmudic legends, for instance, in the story of the construction of the Temple of Solomon.
...ing Solomon tricking Asmodai into collaborating in the construction of the temple of Jerusalem. In yet another legend Asmodai changed place for some years wi
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...e at the mouth of the Severn near Lundy Island or on Glastonbury Tor. (The temple of Nudd archaeologically discovered near Lydney, and Brythonic stories such
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*Another great snake was said to live in a pagan tower temple at Alabuga. Although the Bulgars adopted Islam as early as the 10th century
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[[Image:Andhaka.jpg|thumb|Halebid (India) hoysalesvara temple Lord Shiva killing Andhaka.]]
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...lical text, relates a story that Koldewey thought involved a sirrush. In a temple dedicated to Bel (Nebuchadnezzar's god), priests had a "great dragon or ser
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*Satyrs were some of the enemies that Ares had placed in Pandora's Temple to stop Kratos from getting Pandora's Box in the video game God of War
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:His temple right against the temple of God
...into serious writing about Moloch, Melqart, Carthage, and Ba‘al Hammon. A temple at Amman (1400-1250 B.C.) excavated and reported upon by J.B. Hennessey, sh
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...meetings organised by a distinguished neighbour of Emma Keyse, Lady Mount-Temple of Babbacombe Cliff.
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[[Image:dragon_fountain.jpg|thumb|Fountain in a temple, Hoi Han]]
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...mon orders that she be chained by her own hair and hung up in front of the Temple in public view. The writer of the Testament appears to have been thinking o
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This was a squat, plain temple of basalt blocks without a single carving, and containing only a vacant ony
...ns for temples devoted to Tsathoggua. If someone steals something from the temple, a Child of Tsathoggua will hunt down and kill the offender and then retrie
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...or the conflict. For this purpose he directed him to pass the night in the temple of Minerva. He did so, and as he slept Minerva came to him and gave him a g
...ozen vents in the ground, grouped in two patches on the hillside above the Temple of Hephaistos about 3 km north of Çıralı, near ancient Olympos, in Lycia
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...as a sovereign remedy against spiders, and that it was also hung up in the temple of Diana, for which reason no swallow ever dared enter the sacred place.
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* [http://www.godzillatemple.com/ Barry's Temple of Godzilla]
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*[http://www.manannan.net The Temple of Manannan]: A Neopagan site
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...uji, by Hokusai", the main character has a dream in which she encounters a temple inhabited by priests of "Old Gods", whose intent is to raise the city of R'
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The heroes who participated assembled from all over Hellas. On the Temple of Athena at Tegea, Pausanias saw the figures that are marked '''T'''. The
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...he city. The most elaborate representations come from the old Quetzalcoatl Temple built around 200 BC, which shows a rattlesnake with the long green feathers
...de Mask," the character Tao translates some hieroglyphics on the wall of a temple: "A long time ago, in the land of the Mayas, there lived a man who was very
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:"Among them - Now that is the traditional story among them concerning the temple. But other men swear that Semiramis of Babylonia, whose deeds are many in A
...ecause ultimately Semiramis turned into a dove. Well, I may grant that the temple was a work of Semiramis perhaps; but that it belongs to Derketo I do not be
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...ed hat. Sometimes their eyes are described as being pointed upwards at the temple ends.
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...thousands of years. An altar made entirely of stag horns was built in the temple of Apollo at Delos, and temples to the Goddess [[Diana]] usually contained
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...or the conflict. For this purpose he directed him to pass the night in the temple of Minerva. He did so, and as he slept Minerva came to him and gave him a g
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One squat, black temple of [[Tsathoggua]] was encountered, but it had been turned into a shrine of
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...mostly describes particular [[demon]]s whom he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwar
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His festival, celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of his temple, February 15, was called the Lupercalia. His priests (Luperci) wore goat-s
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Josephus (Antiquities 8.13.1) states clearly that Jezebel "built a temple to the god of the Tyrians, which they call Belus" which certainly refers to
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...(三尺坊) or Akiba Gongen (秋葉権現) of Akiba and Dōryō Gongen (道了権現) of Saijō-ji Temple in Odawara.
...aira, allowed the child to survive on the grounds that he be exiled to the temple on Mount Kurama and become a monk. But one day in the Sojo-ga-dani Valley,
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...ctions for the checkmating of the monster, which were recited daily in the temple of Amen-Ra at Waset (Thebes). In these Apep is referred to as a crocodile a
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...-zebûl'' 'lofty house' and used in Rabbinical writings to mean 'house' or 'temple' and also as the name for the fourth heaven.
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...Grand Master Jacques de Molay and 140 other knights arrested in the Paris Temple. More arrests followed throughout France, and later throughout Europe after
...nium hominum pacis abbas.'' The translation in this case is ''abbot of the temple of peace of all mankind,'' perhaps referring to the Templars themselves.
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...state in which the goddess was served by eunuchs. Lagina, where the famous temple of Hecate drew great festal assemblies every year, lay close to the origina
There was a fane sacred to Hecate as well in the precincts of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, where the eunuch priests, ''megabyzi'', officiated.
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* [http://www.templeofdagon.com/ The Temple of Dagon], general Lovecraftian information and repository for Cthulhu Myth
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