Then they built their own shrines.

Notable shrines include Hiyoshi Taisha in Otsu and Taga taisha in Taga, which respectively head the seventh and twentieth largest shrine networks in Japan, at about 4,000 shrines and 260 shrines, respectively.

By 2002, In Their Darkened Shrines was released.

Shrines are not meant to house the living.

Three new shrines were built upon this extension (Structures 2B, 2C and 2D), each of these shrines had its own access stairway.

In 1540, Henry sanctioned the destruction of shrines to saints.

King, Pagan Gods and Shrines of the Roman Empire (Oxford), pp 77 84.

It contains the principal halls and chapels and shrines of past Dalai Lamas.

He was referring to the armed Salafi groups that were accused of destroying Sufi shrines.

Examples of traditional architecture are seen at temples, Shinto shrines, and castles in Kyoto and Nara.

Inexpensive cast terracotta images of Harpocrates, suitable for house shrines, are found scattered throughout the Roman Empire.

And as regards monuments, are shrines and monuments to be found in the bowels of the Pyrenees?

Commoners may have only entered this structure for ceremonial purposes since it was home to the holiest of shrines.

She is often depicted wearing a crown, and statues of her in churches and shrines are ceremonially crowned during May.

There were two Taoist shrines, one in the imperial garden and another in the central area of the Inner Court.

As such, the theft of oil, particularly from temples and shrines, could lead to punishment via reincarnation as a yōkai .

He is considered a master performer and helped transform taiko performance from its roots in traditional settings in festivals and shrines.

Many small gambling houses cropped up in abandoned temples or shrines at the edge of towns and villages all over Japan.

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen

The southeastern area nearby the Miura Peninsula is less urbanized, with the ancient city of Kamakura drawing tourists to temples and shrines.

The temple complex includes several other shrines, among them the Jishu Shrine, dedicated to Ōkuninushi, a god of love and good matches .

Since the apparitions, Lourdes has become one of the world's leading Catholic Marian shrines and the number of visitors grows each year.

Other archaic shrines to the northwest, such as the Umbilicus Urbis and the Vulcanal (Shrine of Vulcan), developed into the Republic's formal Comitium (assembly area).

Taiko continue to be used in a classical music tradition, gagaku, typically performed at the Tokyo Imperial Palace in addition to local temples and shrines.

Football(Soccer) Nara Club (Nara)Basketball Bambitious Nara (Nara) Tourism Many Jinja (Shinto shrines) and Buddhist temples, and kofun exist in Nara Prefecture, and it is a centre for tourism.

Symbolic votive wheels were offered at shrines (such as in Alesia), cast in rivers (such as the Seine), buried in tombs or worn as amulets since the Middle Bronze Age.

Around 405, Chrysostom began to lend moral and financial support to Christian monks who were enforcing the emperors' anti Pagan laws, by destroying temples and shrines in Phoenicia and nearby regions.

Like its statement on the destruction of Sufi shrines, it denied involvement in the attack on the US Consulate, but stressed the gravity of the insult against the Prophet that putatively triggered it.

Image by Flickr user Ikhaninc, CC BY NC SA Pakistan faces yet another episode of terror as one of it's more revered shrines in Lahore, popularly known as Data Darbar, came under attack.

Vividly colored yamato e Japanese style paintings of court life and stories about temples and shrines became common in the mid and late Heian periods, setting patterns for Japanese art to this day.

www.ahmadiyyabenin.orgThe city is known as a place of pilgrimage, the Virgin Mary said to have appeared in La Grotte Marial Notre Dame d'Arigbo, around which a basilica has since been built, containing several shrines.

According to Mike Marqusee of Iraq Occupation Focus writing in the Guardian , Fallujah's compensation commissioner has reported that 36,000 of the city's 50,000 homes were destroyed, along with 60 schools and 65 mosques and shrines .

At entrances of villages and forts, below ' (Sacred fig) trees ... , in a niche ... in temples of ' (Vishnu) as well as ' (Shiva) and also in separate shrines specially constructed in ' temples ... the figure of ' is invariably seen.

It contains the sacred gold stupas the tombs of eight Dalai Lamas the monks' assembly hall, numerous chapels and shrines, and libraries for the important Buddhist scriptures, the Kangyur in 108 volumes and the Tengyur with 225.

Homemade shrines boxes of glass or wood, wicker baskets and even cardboard boxes are used to carry the ñatita or the little skull to the main cemetery of the Bolivian capital, La Paz, on November 8 every year.

Similarly, rather than condemning the adoption of terrorist tactics by the Taliban in Afghanistan, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and al Shabaab in Somalia, and the destruction of Sufi shrines in Mali by Ansar Dine, a radical Islamist sect, Muslim leaders have remained largely silent.

To the south of the Forbidden City were two important shrines the Imperial Shrine of Family or the Imperial Ancestral Temple () and the Imperial Shrine of State (), where the Emperor would venerate the spirits of his ancestors and the spirit of the nation, respectively.

In particular, he traces many of the traditions of white magic to the early worship of local gods and goddesses of fertility and vegetation who were usually worshipped at hill top shrines and were attractive to a nomadic race settling down to an agricultural existence .

In his blog, which has the rather long title Au Grin, Il se dit beaucoup de choses autour d un verre de thé (At the Grin, Much IS Talked About Around a Cup of Tea), he posted an article titled Timbuktu They are as innocent as the shrines! .

The three day festivities include a dance of over one thousand synchronized traditional dancers the carrying of over one hundred small shrines and the parading of a dozen or so large, hand constructed floats depicting historical, fictional, or mythical scenes and accompanied by drummers, flautists, and lantern carriers.

Origins In addition to its use as a trial of strength in combat, sumo has also been associated with Shinto ritual, and even certain shrines carry out forms of ritual dance where a human is said to wrestle with a kami (a Shinto divine spirit) see Shinto origins of sumo.

Here's a lovely 19th century painting by Edward Dodwell, an English artist, of Mount Parnassus, which was the mythical home of the Muses and historically, the site of one of the most important Greek religious shrines, that of Delphi we'll be coming back to that any number of times during our course.

These mortuary temples became places visited during the various festivals held in the Theban necropolis, most notably the Beautiful festival of the valley, where the sacred barques of Amun Re, his consort Mut and son Khonsu left the temple at Karnak in order to visit the funerary temples of deceased kings on the West Bank and their shrines in the Theban Necropolis.