Sentences with phrase «ancient temples of»

From the ancient temples of Cambodia which are overwhelmed by gigantic trees, to magnificent shipwrecks where coral reefs grow out of the decks of industrial machines, nature can grow in extraordinary ways, bringing life to forgotten spaces.

As their title suggests, they stemmed from a combination of the skyscraper aesthetic of modern America, and the ancient temples of Greece.

Powerful roots, nourished by plentiful sun and rain dwarf and strangle the ancient temples of Angkor evoking questions about our 21st Century hubris in the face of global warming.

You spend two days exploring the ancient temples of Angkor Wat, with time to relax at the hotel pool and to enjoy the great food and nightlife on Pub Street in the Old Town!

How about seeing the ancient temples of Angkor Wat, before heading to the Thailand for fun in the sun and shopping?

Many people only visit Siem Reap to see the ancient temples of Angkor but Cambodia is definitely worth a longer stay.

[1] Archeological excavations have revealed a number of fine stucco facades on some of the ancient temples of this site.

Sightseeing includes the ancient temples of Wat Visoun and Wat Aham, Ock Pop Tok weaving centre and the beautifully ornate former Royal Palace.

On your Nepal holiday, find spiritual bliss in the ancient temples of Kathmandu, many of them UNESCO World Heritage Sites, bathe elephants at Chitwan National Park, or challenge yourself with treks in the Himalayas.

From the famous rhinos and Bengal tigers of Chitwan National Park to the ancient temples of the Kathmandu Valley, encounter the essence of the Himalaya.

As the train stations, proceed to explore the ancient temples of Khajuraho (Western Group of Temples).

(Thus the ritual prostitution featured in many ancient temples of the Middle East.)

«Shors infuses the story with fascinating information about the ancient temple of Angkor Wat and Buddhist and Hindu cultures, but he often loses focus - and the interest of the reader - by deviating from the plot and providing entirely too much detail.»

This is the largest of the Greek Islands in the Aegean Sea and when you arrive by boat you will be met with its most famous archaelogical site — the Portara, the doorway to the ancient temple of Apollo built in 522 BC.

The ancient temple of Borobudur is a must visit when in Indonesia.

At the tip of the Attica Peninsula, lies the Archaeological area of Cape Sounion, featuring the ruins of an ancient temple of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.

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On his first visit to Facebook - crazy Indonesia, Mark Zuckerberg met the president - elect, spread the word about his company's global Internet - access initiative and posted a photo of himself at an ancient Buddhist temple.

The news has reached China: Most of the tourists in the courtyard and at dozens of other ancient temples in the Cambodian jungle were Chinese.

One is Tikal, a park with Mayan ruins and temples that sits in an ancient citadel within the rainforests of northern Guatemala.

Cambodia has a lot to offer international tourists and expats with unrivaled and spectacular ancient temples, some of the best beaches in Asia, and impressive colonial cities.

The vandalization of many ancient Pagan temples, tombs and monuments continued under his reign.

When Christians were ruling Egypt they defaced and destroyed a lot of the temples and structures of the ancient egyptians.

In fact some of the evidence you didn't mention which was popular fodder in the past has already been proven incorrect (horses in the americas before the spanish, and the BofM reference to elephants) Both considered ridiculous errors by Joseph Smith until elephants appeared on ancient Mayan / Incan temples and horses from the Brea tar pits were dated before the spanish.

(For example, given Wright's understanding of what the Reformers meant by «literal,» I wonder if they wouldn't be open to scholarship that interprets Genesis 1 as an ancient Near Eastern temple text — see John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One — rather than a scientific explanation for origins.)

An interesting note: «The same phenomena and portents of the sudden darkness at the sixth hour, a strong earthquake, rent stones, a temple entrance broken in two, and the rising of the dead have been reported by multiple ancient writers for the death of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC.»

It was a long and sometimes terrible conflict, occasionally exacting a fearful price in martyrs» blood, but it was, by any just estimate, a victory: the temples of Zeus and Isis alike were finally deserted, both the paean and the dithyramb ceased to be sung, altars were bereft of their sacrifices, the sibyls fell silent, and ultimately all the glory, nobility, and cruelty of the ancient world lay supine at the feet of Christ the conqueror.

Thus, in the very things most characteristic of the religion of ancient man, namely altars, sacrifices and temples, the prophets of Israel took the first steps in the direction of their abolition, for YHWH, being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house made by hands.

In ancient Hebrew culture, it was very strange for God to only have one place of worship — in the tabernacle and then later in the temple.

Are we saying that the Christianity we grew up with is actually a syncretistic religion, containing elements of not only ancient Christianity, but also of Roman pagan worship, complete with temples (buildings) and paid employees (priests and others)?

Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»

The kings of ancient Babylon built temples to their moon god in the form of stepped pyramids known as ziggaruts.

Women were excluded from the service of the Ara Maxima, men from the temple of the Bona Dea in ancient Rome.

The Sadducees came out of the priestly cast in ancient Israel, and over time gained control over the rituals in the Jerusalem temple, a position which also made them power brokers in affairs of state.

Niehaus has some interesting insights into the role of the temple and the priesthood in the Ancient Near East, and this helps us understand the role of the Garden and Adam in Genesis 2.

Of great interest to some historians is the fact that the ancient Sumerians, at their temple in the city of Eridu, worshipped the water god EOf great interest to some historians is the fact that the ancient Sumerians, at their temple in the city of Eridu, worshipped the water god Eof Eridu, worshipped the water god Ea.

Equating modern churches, pastors and practices with ancient Jewish synagogues, temples and priests and practices (such as tithing to the Levites) seems to be done primarily for the purpose of raising money.

At Passover, thousands of Jews concentrated in a rather small area in and around the temple to celebrate, while under Roman rule, their deliverance from ancient Egyptian bondage.

But before that, on Wednesday night, Gersten is looking forward to lighting a Hanukkah menorah, which commemorates the rededication of the ancient temple and the miracle of one day's worth of oil lasting eight.

For the God of Israel, alone among the gods of the ancient world, had no visible image in his temple.

The Song of Moses or Miriam (15: 1 - 18) has usually been taken as a later expansion of the original, very ancient two lines attributed to Miriam in 15: 21, although some have more conservatively maintained the originality and antiquity of the long poem.11 In any case, we affirm its relative antiquity, subject of course to modification (for example, to accommodate the reference to the tenth - century temple in Jerusalem, vv.

One might observe in this connection that, as human cultures go, that of the ancient Semites was not particularly «repressive» of the sexual impulse; there were plenty of nonsacred prostitutes around, and the temples of Astarte did not have a monopoly in the brothel business.

Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..

For example, the creation account of Genesis 1 is arguably more meaningful and more profound when we understand it, not as a modern science text, but as an ancient Near Eastern temple text that honors Elohim as ruler over creation.

Then through all of the vicissitudes of actual life in the ancient Near East, God made himself a people from those forebears — delivering them from slavery in Egypt, protecting them against their enemies, leading them through the terrors of the wilderness, entering into covenant with them, giving them his guiding presence in the covenant law, bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey, giving them a Davidic king to be their protector of justice in peace and in war, and finally taking up his own dwelling in their temple on the Mount of Zion.

For example, in ancient Judaism the feasts and special ceremonies were of great importance, and many believed that the temple was a sacred place.

An interesting note, which should not be ignored: «The same phenomena and portents of the sudden darkness at the sixth hour, a strong earthquake, rent stones, a temple entrance broken in two, and the rising of the dead have been reported by multiple ancient writers for the death of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC.»

You can imagine the shock on the faces of simple faithful people trying to follow age old rules pertaining to what you do when you go to the one temple allowed in ancient Israel in those few centuries before Hadrien destroyed ancient Israel.

Walton, who is a scholar of both the Ancient Near East and the Bible, argues that Genesis I is a temple cosmogeny (creation of the cosmos) text that forms the 12th division of Genesis, and in many ways parallels other cosmogeny texts.

4 - 9) is enigmatic: does it preserve the memory of actual casualties inflicted by serpents; or is it a cultic etiology to explain the presence of a bronze serpent in the Jerusalem temple in Hezekiah's time (II Kings 18:4); or is it distantly related to ancient, primitive cultic use of the serpent symbol?

This sounds like some sort of ancient pagan ritual where the worshippers splashed blood on themselves as they went into the temple to worship their pagan god.