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20 hours ago · Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...
20 hours ago · Paired torches, dogs, serpents, keys, knives, and lions. Hecate[ a ] is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, or snakes, or accompanied by dogs, [ 4 ] and in later periods depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied. She is variously associated with crossroads, night, light, magic ...
20 hours ago · The Eucharist (/ ˈjuːkərɪst / YOO-kər-ist; from Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized:evcharistía, lit.'thanksgiving'), also called Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament or the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite, considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others. Christians believe that the rite was instituted by ...
20 hours ago · The Holy Roman Empire, [ f ] also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. [ 19 ] It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost a thousand years until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
20 hours ago · Altar in the Church of the Nativity, BethlehemNativity of Jesus, by Botticelli, c. 1473–1475. Matthew and Luke agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehemduring the reign of Herod the Great.[7] In Luke the newborn baby is placed in a manger"because there was no place in the katalyma.[17] Katalymamight mean a private home (this has little support ...
20 hours ago · Page from the Gospel of JudasMandaean Beth Manda(Mashkhanna) in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, in 2016, a contemporary-style mandi. Gnosticism(from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized:gnōstikós, Koine Greek:[ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among ...
20 hours ago · Lithuania. The swastika symbol (Lithuanian: sūkurėlis) is a traditional Baltic ornament, [ 115 ][ 174 ] found on relics dating from at least the 13th century. [ 175 ] The sūkurėlis for Lithuanians represents the history and memory of their Lithuanian ancestors as well as the Baltic people at large. [ 175 ]
