A votive offering or votive deposit is one or more objects displayed or deposited, without the intention of recovery or use, in a sacred place for religious...
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Tsatsa (also tsa-tsa, tsha-tsha, ཚ་ཚ) is a small sculptural votive offering used in Tibetan Buddhism. They are normally small plaques with decoration...
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A votive candle or prayer candle is a small candle, typically white or beeswax yellow, intended to be burnt as a votive offering in an act of Christian...
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Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia (section Votive offerings)
recognized as a replacement votive that directly related to hunting and preying. Tiny sized vases, another type of votive offering, first made an appearance...
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A votive crown is a votive offering in the form of a crown, normally in precious metals and often adorned with jewels. Especially in the Early Middle...
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In many cultures, coins as used as votive offerings, usually through the act of throwing coins at or in specific objects such as rivers, lakes, ponds,...
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folk charms that are traditionally used for healing purposes and as votive offerings in Mexico, the southern United States, other areas of Latin America...
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Textile (section Votive offering)
of currency. Textiles were among the objects offered to the gods [votive offering] in ancient Greece for religious purposes. The smallest component of...
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about 8,000 silver votive objects in the chapel. The large crescent moon located right beneath Our Lady is also a votive offering. Its origins are unknown...
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Ex-voto (redirect from Votive tablet)
An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or a divinity, given in fulfillment of a vow (hence the Latin term, short for ex voto suscepto, "from the vow...
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Gallo-Roman religion (section Votive offerings)
healing attributes. Many votive dedications to Sulis Minerva have been found located near springs throughout Gaul. One such offering found near Auxerre depicts...
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Tama (Greek: τάμα, pl. τάματα, tamata) are a form of votive offering or ex-voto used in the Eastern Orthodox Church, particularly the Greek Orthodox Church...
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Wish tree (category Votive offering)
of wishes and offerings. Such trees are identified as possessing a special religious or spiritual value. Postulants make votive offerings in hopes of having...
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in temples, shrines and churches, and cult images, including votive offerings at votive sites. Cicero defined religio as cultus deorum, "the cultivation...
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Museum replica of a bronze discus inscribed as a votive offering to Zeus by Asklepiades of Corinth, winner of the pentathlon in the 255th Olympiad (Glyptothek...
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divine art, and weave planks of fir over its ribs they pretend it's a votive offering: this rumour spreads. They secretly hide a picked body of men, chosen...
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Mycenaean type called "house sanctuaries". Samos excavations have revealed votive offerings, many of them late 8th and 7th centuries BCE, which show that Hera...
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Heraion of Samos (section Votive offerings)
treasuries, stoas, a sacred way, and countless honorific statues and other votive offerings. The Sacred Way was a road running from the city of Samos to the sanctuary...
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Animal mummy (category Votive offering)
votive animal mummies are the animals' souls acted as messengers between people on earth and the gods. Cats were mummified as religious offerings in...
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Battersea Shield (category Votive offering)
invasion of Britain, although it is now thought that the shield was a votive offering, which probably predates the invasion. The Battersea Shield is made...
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Hill of Crosses (category Votive offering)
Hill of Crosses (Lithuanian: Kryžių kalnas) is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin...
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boundary markers, roadside markers, and grave markers, as well as votive offerings. In Classical and Hellenistic Greece, Hermes was usually depicted as...
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Athenian Treasury (category Votive offering)
at Delphi was constructed by the Athenians to house dedications and votive offerings made by their city and citizens to the sanctuary of Apollo. The entire...
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archaeological evidence of votive offerings, ceremonial textile production, and iconography found in Etruscan burials. Votive evidence for Etruscan worship...
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grounds. Childhood in ancient Rome Mater Matuta Votive offering List of Roman fertility deities Swaddling Votive babies Italian: bambini in fasce) An ex-voto...
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Ancient Celtic religion (section Votive offerings)
also built temples or ritual enclosures. Celtic peoples often made votive offerings which would be deposited in water and wetlands, or in ritual shafts...
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Gate of Dawn (category Votive offering)
Catholic, Greek Catholic and Eastern Orthodox inhabitants. Thousands of votive offerings adorn the walls and many pilgrims from neighboring countries come to...
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are considered by textual scholars to also be a later development. Votive offering Berlin, Adele; Brettler, Marc Zvi (2014). Jewish study bible (2 Rev...
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Hàng Mã Street (section Votive offerings)
Hanoi famous for selling toys, paper goods, and in particular paper votive offerings. The street has been selling paper goods for more than 500 years. The...
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including torches, keys, serpents, and daggers. Some hekataia, including a votive sculpture from Attica of the 3rd century BCE, include additional dancing...
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