Sacred groves or sacred woods are groves of trees that have special religious importance within a particular culture. Sacred groves feature in various...
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Sacred groves of India are forest fragments of varying sizes, which are communally protected, and which usually have a significant religious connotation...
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apple orchards in Washington state, and orange groves in Florida. Historically, groves were considered sacred in pagan, pre-Christian Germanic and Celtic...
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paganism and Germanic mythology, both as individuals (sacred trees) and in groups (sacred groves). The central role of trees in Germanic religion is noted...
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Mystery Case Files (redirect from Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, Sacred Grove)
Dire Grove Sacred Grove Released!". Big Fish Games. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2015. "Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, Sacred Grove – Review...
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Osun-Osogbo (redirect from Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove)
Osun-Osogbo is a sacred grove along the banks of the Osun river just outside the city of Osogbo, Osun State of Nigeria. The Osun-Osogbo Grove is several centuries...
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Sacred grove or similar may mean: sacred grove or sacred woods, a grove of trees of special religious importance to a particular culture. "Grove" or "Sacred...
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Lucus (section Sacred groves of the Roman Empire)
([ˈɫ̪uː.kʊs], plural lucī) is a sacred grove. Lucus was one of four Latin words meaning in general "forest, woodland, grove" (along with nemus, silva, and...
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meditated in Bodh Gaya, is also revered as sacred. Sacred trees are some times planted in the sacred groves, which can also have other type of trees, too...
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annual festival that usually takes place in August, at the Oṣun-Osogbo Sacred Grove in Osogbo. A violín is a type of musical ceremony in Regla de Ocha performed...
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77°14′40″W / 43.040669°N 77.244404°W / 43.040669; -77.244404 The Sacred Grove is a forested area of western New York near the home of Joseph Smith...
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Tanoboase Sacred Grove and Shrine is near the village of Tanoboase in the Techiman, Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. It is believed to be the cradle and the...
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tabernacles has sometimes been considered sacred. The concept applies also to sacred spaces such as temenoi, sacred groves, village greens, pagodas and holy wells...
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Osun River (category Sacred rivers)
thereby threatening the river and the Osun Osogbo Sacred Grove. The dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove, on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo, is one...
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Moozhikkal (section Sacred Groves)
Vishnu Temple Moozhikkal purayidam sarppakavu is a sacred grove of Moozhikkal. There is another sacred grove for monkeys near Moozhikkal. Moozhikkal junction...
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Kavu (category Sacred groves)
Kāvû is the traditional name given for sacred groves across the Malabar Coast in Kerala, South India. Kavus are notable for Theyyam, the centuries-old...
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The Sacro Bosco ("Sacred Grove"), colloquially called Park of the Monsters (Parco dei Mostri in Italian), also named Garden of Bomarzo, is a Mannerist...
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Theyyam. The Thaze Kavu, part of the Andaloor Kavu, has the remnants of a sacred grove. It is one of the few remaining habitats for the species typical of the...
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polytheism both appear to have involved cultic practice in sacred groves, especially grove of oak.[citation needed] The term druid itself possibly derives...
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The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and Muses or simply The Sacred Grove, French: Le Bois sacré cher aux arts et aux muses, refers to three separate...
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Neeliyar Kottam (category Sacred groves of India)
Kottam is a sacred grove in Kannur district, Kerala, India, situated at Mangattuparamba near Dharmasala. At present, this 20.18 Acre sacred grove is controlled...
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Raorchestes sanctisilvaticus (redirect from Sacred grove bushfrog)
Raorchestes sanctisilvaticus, also known as the sacred grove bushfrog, sacred grove bush frog or Similipal bush frog, is a critically endangered species...
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Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary (section Sacred groves)
government land, much of the sacred grove is now encroached upon for cashew plantations and agriculture. The sacred grove is an excellent example of the...
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Muzdalifah (section The Sacred Monument)
of Pebbles'). The open-roofed mosque at Muzdalifah is known as "The Sacred Grove [ar]" (Arabic: ٱلْمَشْعَر ٱلْحَرَام, romanized: Al-Mashʿar Al-Ḥarām)...
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Athens in the 4th century BC. As a sacred grove dedicated to Athena, and Hecademos (Academos). The Academy, the sacred grove of Academos, may have existed...
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at the roofless mosque in Muzdalifah called al-Mash'ar al-Haram (the Sacred Grove) Danarto (1989). A Javanese pilgrim in Mecca. p. 27. ISBN 0-8674-6939-0...
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("against, beside") and nemeton ("sacred grove"). Her name is thus interpreted as "she who dwells in the sacred grove", suggesting Arnemetia may be a divine...
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of sacred places include: Australian Aboriginal sacred sites Sacred groves (such as those in India or in Germanic cultures) Sacred mountains Sacred trees...
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Susanne Wenger (section Osun grove)
local artists in Osogbo to redevelop and redecorate the Osun Osogbo Sacred Grove with sculptures and carvings depicting the various activities of the...
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witness. A ancient scholiast wrote that Ariadne and Theseus had sex on a sacred grove, and an angry Dionysus revealed that to Artemis, who proceeded to punish...
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