Sentences with phrase «such as a temple»

In addition to the monumental gate, an impressive fortification wall was discovered, as well as various building in its vicinity, such as a temple and an iron production facility.

This processor speed also allows processor, extensive applications such as a temple run or angry bird's installments.

There are no historic monuments or museums on the island, but local operators offer a range of tours to some of the major Mayan monuments, such as the temple of Chichen Itza, on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Continue your journey into Cambodia where you'll visit the famous sites, such as the temple of Wat Hanchey, providing spectacular views, and take part in a traditional water blessing with local monks.

A relatively unspoilt country side, welcoming people and cultural magnificence with iconic sights such as the temples of the «Lost City» of Angkor.

While staying there you can visit famous Sun Gate, the ancient observatory and more than two hundred other buildings such as temples and palaces.

Offing all of this as well as tropical beauty and culturally interesting areas such as temples and the traditional areas of the harbors, this is a luxurious area that is amongst plenty of areas of interest and tropical indulgence.

These temples serve as cultural sanctuaries where daily events such as temple festivals are held in honor of gods and the Balinese people.

Ubud is made up of a central town offering with many art galleries, exquisite restaurants containing some of Bali's best dinning and traditional cultural gems such as the temples and community halls that offer performances of traditional dances and arts.

You play as the role of Hua, who has a great talent in martial art, and will encounter exciting challenges from many different Kung Fu masters in various places of interest in ancient China, such as temple, tomb and palace.

Recontextualized when affixed to Plexiglas panels, they take the form of iconic symbols such as temples, plum blossoms, and Buddhas.

Not exact matches

Also, black people were not permitted to participate in ordinances performed in the LDS Church temples, such as the endowment ritual and temple marriages and family sealings.

Indeed, for a first - century audience, more attuned to the «differential charge» locations within Greco - Roman cities could possess, such temples would have appeared all the more impressive, occupying, as they did, crucial sites in their symbolic geography (in Athens, for example, the cult temple was constructed in the Acropolis, near the Parthenon, in the historic and religious heart of the city).

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

The temples of the cult itself (such as the Ara Pacis in Rome) and various works of monumental and fine art, from bold triumphal arches and statues to the exquisite Gemma Augustea, visually articulated this «theology».

Out of this new dimension in Israel's experience came such hymns of the post-Exilic temple as the 139th Psalm:

Even in the early days, Hannah, the mother of Samuel, came to the shrine of Yahweh to pray concerning a personal and family matter, (I Samuel 1:9 ff) and in the second temple, as the Psalter reveals, the individual, as such, had part in the sacrifices, not simply as a member of the nation but in the light and right of his own private needs.

I believe it's the latter, and individuals such as E.P Sanders, James Dunn, and N.T. Wright have provided solid arguments for that by going back to the 2nd temple Jewish texts to mine their riches and help us better understand today what it was all about.

They refused to accept plural marriage, the idea of the political kingdom, and temple worship, as well as the more esoteric LDS doctrines such as plurality of gods and baptism of the dead.

The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple in the middle of the site on which they had established themselves, the ark being placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10

«Without exception, church members must not submit for proxy temple ordinances [rituals] any names from unauthorized groups, such as celebrities and Jewish Holocaust victims,» the statement read.

This church included limited temple rituals such as baptism for the dead, sealings, and endowments.

The Acts of the Apostles records a number of these, such as the healing of the lame man in the temple by John and Peter, described in the third chapter of Acts.

The history channel, or some such channel did have one bible show that had Jesus as a short semitic man with short hair and the temple locks of a Jewish man.

Among the books, all of which either wear their contemporary paper jackets or are recent paper - backs, on the shelves that climb the walls, are displayed plastic reproductions of such things as a Tibetan prayer wheel, African masks, a cross or two, a grinning gargoyle, several Indian - temple loving couples, and (standing in a corner) a crosier.

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.

This wider context usually includes some supportive community — a community of shared values such as a church or temple fellowship.

Yet it is certainly there: in God's great commission in Genesis 1:28; in passages such as those formerly quoted about man's spirit and in Paul's word to the Corinthians, «Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God?»

Sometimes such places have been chosen for temple and church building sites — as, for instance, the oldest Japanese shrine, Ise; or Mont St. Michel in France; or Delphi in Greece.

He improves Mark's style by omitting repetitious words and clauses; he omits expressions which attribute human emotions to Jesus (so also Matthew); he severely abridges the account of a violent action such as the cleansing of the temple.

and as far as joshua and his prophecy about temple — any one could have made such a claim knowing that the romans made teh claim that they would if they (the jews) revolted again.

Having symbols of our faith and heritage removed from government property pales in comparison to such persecution, yet the Church fights them with as much piss and vinegar as Jesus turning over the moneychanger's tables in the temple!

If the «triumphal entry» looks like a march on Washington or Rome, the cleansing of the temple looks very much like an occupation of the administration building and a sit - in, such as marked the turbulent sixties.

They notice that it is permeated by a spirit of deep reverence or piety, that it aims to transform the quality and character of experience in a direction that appears saintly, that it manifests itself in such institutions as temples and monasteries in which there are ritual observances, and so forth.

A people who live by the moral laws of God, believing their bodies are the temple of God and should be respected as such.

Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for as long as anyone can remember and, in fact, many of them grow up not knowing about the existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such as myself, of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction of the temple, and after thousands of years living in the frigid north, with low levels of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!

We love: the frequent specials, which bring hard - to - find Laotian traditions (such as the «temple tray,» served for Asian New Year) to D.C.

Only in India will you find 1000 year old temples on the same block as avant - garde nightclubs, and it is polarities such as these that make India one of the most intriguing places on Earth to visit.

Japan offers a large range of both Japanese and western style accommodation, including some unconventional forms such as capsule hotels and temple lodgings.

3 - D digital preservation not only helps save the memories of historical sites, it also guides restoration projects after natural disasters, such as the earthquakes that damaged the temples of Bagan.Editor's Note: Viewers sensitive to flashing light may want to avoid this video.

«The next step will be to work on quantifying the impact of pollutants emitted from the daily burning of biotic materials, such as incense, in over two million Hindu temples in India and Nepal.»

University of Toronto archaeologist Timothy Harrison and colleagues are excavating a temple in the Tell Tayinat region of Turkey, built around 800 B.C. Though this time was thought to be a dark age when trade between Greece and the Middle East nearly ground to a halt, Harrison says that his finds — including ivory carvings, precious metal foils, and pottery — are a clear indication of cultural and economic exchange among cultures such as the Hittites, Aegeans, and Semites.

In the field season 2014, the 60 - strong excavation team uncovered finds from all periods of the 2,000 - year history of the cult site, such as the thick enclosing wall of the first Iron Age sanctuary or the foundations of the main Roman temple of the god Jupiter Dolichenus, who became one of the most important deities of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century A.D.. His sanctuary is situated close to the town of Gaziantep on the 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) high mountain of Dülük Baba Tepesi.

Sir Bernard wants to close 10 London hospitals including such sacred Aesculapian temples as Bart's and the Charing Cross and Queen Charlotte's.

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Only use the highlighter in spots that catches the light on places such as the high points of your cheeks, along your temples, down the bridge of your nose, brow bones, inner tear ducts and cupids bow.

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