• A lapis manalis was either of two sacred stones used in the Roman religion. One covered a gate to Hades, abode of the dead; Sextus Pompeius Festus called...
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    stone called a lapis manalis would be placed in the foundations, representing a gate to the underworld. Due to similar names, the lapis manalis is often confused...
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    were blown off course by the resulting gale. In ancient Rome, the lapis manalis was a sacred stone kept outside the walls of Rome in a temple of Mars...
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    in Rome, now lost. It was usually sealed by a stone lid known as the lapis manalis. On August 24, October 5 and November 8, it was opened with the official...
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    to propitiate rainfall and devoted to Jupiter. and the ritual of the lapis manalis, the stone which was brought into the city through the Porta Capena...
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    ceremony, the pontifices had the lapis manalis ("Water-flowing stone". Festus distinguishes it from another lapis manalis, "stone of the Manes") brought...
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    breastplate, or by silver bows into a set of spectacles. (Mormon mythology) Lapis manalis (Stone of the Manes), was either of two sacred stones used in the Roman...
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    to propitiate rainfall and devoted to Jupiter. and the ritual of the lapis manalis, the stone which was brought into the city through the Porta Capena...
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  • 6.3 Gods Revel, Lands Tremble, Cagnazzo is fought at the end of the Lapis Manalis dungeon where it is revealed he was a decoy to allow Rubicante to destroy...
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  • the statue sweating. Also within the temple was kept one of the two Lapis manalis stones. This stone was used as part of a ceremony of Etruscan origin...
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    in various colours. They make figures of devas, with gold, silver, and lapis lazuli grandly blended and having silken streamers and canopies hung out...
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    pottery cones. Its blue interior is formed by crushed sea shells mixed with lapis lazuli. The stained-glass windows above the main altar, in warm, rich colors...
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