The Sacred Mound (Icelandic: Hin helgu vé) is a 1993 Icelandic drama film directed by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry...

the Adena culture, used mounds preferentially for burial, others used mounds for other ritual and sacred acts, as well as for secular functions. The platform...

after the state legalized sports betting in other venues. Since the late 20th century, the tribe has acquired such sacred sites as Nikwasi Mound (2019...

termed "Mound Builders", but the term has no formal meaning. It does not refer to specific people or archaeological culture but refers to the characteristic...

to the sacred mound of Ro-Peqer (the mythical tomb of the god), located less than two kilometers to the south of the holy city. According to the myth...

Knight, who stated that the Mississippian platform mounds were one of the three "sacra", or objects of sacred display, of the Mississippian religion –...

The Choctaw people's adoration of woman and the Mother goddess was also reflected in their religious and spiritual reverence for the sacred mound of...

The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-feet-long (411 m), three-feet-high prehistoric effigy mound located in Peebles, Ohio. It was built on what is known...

Cahokia Mounds /kəˈhoʊkiə/ (11 MS 2) is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi...

people erected a temple for her on her home island" and that the Temple of the Sacred Mound (聖墩廟; 圣墩庙; Shèngdūn Miào) was raised in 1086 after some people...

Central Asia) kurgans, and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones built for various purposes, may also originally...

The Babylonian calendar was a lunisolar calendar used in Mesopotamia from around the second millennium BCE until the Seleucid Era (294 BCE), and it was...

traditional lands and sacred mounds in this region. In 2019 the town of Franklin transferred the deed for Nikwasi mound to the Nikwasi Initiative, a non-profit...

Mound 34 is a small platform mound located roughly 400 metres (1,300 ft) to the east of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Excavations...

Raven) (1988) Hvíti víkingurinn (The White Viking) (1991) Hin helgu vé (The Sacred Mound) (1993) Myrkrahöfðinginn (TV-series "Prince of Darkness")(2000) Reykjavík...

regionally. It was known for building large, earthen platform mounds, and often other shaped mounds as well. It was composed of a series of urban settlements...

branches). The form sitis is probably from PIE *sēdns "seats" an accusative plural; compare Old Irish sid "sacred mound" from "seat (of the gods), and...

timekeeping. The temple was built on a low terrace of rammed earth meant to represent the sacred mound of primordial land which emerged from the water called...

their sacred mounds on the plateau of the Georgia fall line. While the mounds had been studied by some travelers, professional excavation under the evolving...

challenge the broader repression of Old Narnia. When the underground's army is being badly beaten in a siege on Aslan's How - a sacred mound which now...

Krakus Mound or Kopiec Krakusa in Polish, also called the Krak Mound, is a tumulus located in the Podgórze district of Kraków, Poland; thought to be the resting...

The Criel Mound, also known as the South Charleston Mound, is a Native American burial mound located in South Charleston, West Virginia. It is one of the...

Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica. The beginning of its construction dates...

recognition. In 2024, a 600-acre parcel (240 ha) that includes a sacred mound was given back to the tribe by St. Paul's Episcopal Church of New Orleans. Marshall...

resurrection of religious life that took place eighty years later on the sacred mound. Monnier, Mechtilde (1921). La dernière abbesse de Montmartre: Marie...

state, The Choctaw believed that their people came forth from the sacred mound of Nanih Waiya. In relation to this creation myth is the legend of the Choctaw...

all good things", was the personification of the primeval mound. The Benben stone, named after the mound, was a sacred stone in the temple of Ra at Heliopolis...

Indian Mounds Regional Park is a public park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, featuring six burial mounds overlooking the Mississippi River. The oldest...

Spiro Mounds (34 LF 40) is an Indigenous archaeological site located in present-day eastern Oklahoma. The site was built by people from the Arkansas Valley...

The Sacred Band of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἱερός Λόχος, Hierós Lókhos) was a troop of select soldiers, consisting of 150 pairs of male lovers which formed...