Pradakshina: The act of worshipful walking around a holy temple, shrine or place. Always done clockwise.

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In Europe, Christian churches were usually built on a holy spot, generally where a miracle or martyrdom had taken place or where a holy person was buried. Examples are St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and St. Albans Cathedral in England, which commemorate the martyrdom of Saint Peter (the first Pope) and Saint Alban (the first Christian martyr in Britain), respectively. The place, and therefore the church built there, was considered to have been sanctified (made holy) by what happened there. In modern times, the Roman Catholic Church has continu ...

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tirthayatra: (Sanskrit) "Journeying to a holy place." Pilgrimage.

One of the five sacred duties (pancha nitya karmas) of the Hindu is to journey periodically to one of the innumerable holy spots in India or other countries. Preceded by fasting and continence, it is a time of austerity and purification, when all worldly concerns are set aside and God becomes one's singular focus. Streams of devout pilgrims are received daily at the many ancient holy sites (tirthas) in India, and tens of thousands at festival times.

See: pancha nitya karma, pancha shraddha.

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At least as far back as the 7th century BC Mount Ślęża was a holy place of the tribes of Lusatian culture. It was then settled by the Celtic Lugians of the Przeworsk culture, and then the early Slavic Silesians. It remained a holy place during Christian times as well. In the first half of the 12th century, the owner of the place was Piotr Włostowic, who founded here an Augustinian convent, which was subsequently moved to Wrocław in 1153. The name probably is derived from ...

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Although the pre-Christian religion in Lithuania died out much later than in any other European country, actual information on Lithuanian mythology is scattered and late. Interest in it has increased since the beginning of the 19th century, when the narrative material began to be collected. However, at this time the majority of Lithuanian-speaking Lithuanians had already ceased to live according to the beliefs and doctrines of their earlier religion, and story-tellers could not explain their meaning more adequately and precisely. Without the ...

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Pre-Christian mythology is known mainly through speculation and reconstruction, although the existence of some mythological elements, known from later sources, has been confirmed by archaeological findings. The next period of Lithuanian mythology started in the 15th century, and lasted 'til approximately the middle of the 17th century. The myths of this period are mostly heroic, concerning the founding of the state of Lithuania. Perhaps two the best known stories are those of the dream of the Grand Duke Gediminas and the founding of V ...

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Lithuanian mythology - God and nature. Stories, songs, and legends of this kind describe laws of nature and such natural processes as the change of seasons of the year, their connections with each other and with the existence of human beings. Nature is often described in terms of the human family; in one central example (found in many songs and stories), the sun is called the mother, the moon the father, and stars the sisters of hum ...

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This section contains those names of Lithuanian gods or other mythical beings that are mentioned in old treatises on history or philosophy, sometimes accompanied by brief descriptions, and which are known from a few independent sources or from their counterparts under different names in later collections of myths and tales. Lithuanian mythology - Gods and god-like beings. Aušautas (a Prussian name) Aušlavis (a Prussian name) Praamžius Indraja Patrimpas (a Prussi ...

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These are names of gods and other mythical beings that are known from one source only, having no relevant description which allows them to be identified with elements of later myths. Names that were supposed by the authors of older treatises to be the names of Lithuanian gods are also included. Lithuanian mythology - Theodor Narbutt's reconstruction. The historian Theodor Narbutt wrote The History of Lithuanian Nation (Dzieje starożytne narodu litewskiego, ten volumes, 1835–1841), of which ...

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Penetralia (Latin) [from pen within]

The inner parts of a house, etc.; hence also a shrine or sacred chamber, a Holy of Holies. The original conception of the Holy of Holies was of a place of such purity and sacredness that none might enter save the high priest, and he only on rare and special occasions. It might contain no image or concrete representation of a divinity. Later, this pure conception was degraded to phallicism.

The origin of the reverence and often worship paid to the Holy of Holies by some ancient peoples lay in Atlantean religious magic. For among them, there were actual places of earth, or penetralia, of particular sanctity; because by working of magic these were actually filled or infilled with a presence of spiritual-divine character. Indeed, these penetralia among the Atlanteans were of two classes: places in which the presence of a divinity was actually there, so that it could be felt by sensitives and communication had with it by trained adepts; and similar penetralia but of the left-hand path, in which dark spirits of the earth were enchained and were consulted by adepts of evil. In later times when the secrets of Atlantean magic were largely lost, the custom of building a Holy of Holies continued to be as common as in Atlantean times.

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"Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel Jerusalem, Capital of Israel: 1. Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel. Seat of the President, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme Court: 2. Jerusalem is the seat of the President of the State, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme Court. Protection of Holy Places: 3. The Holy Places shall be protected from desecration and any other violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to ...

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Tirthikas (Sanskrit) [from tirtha holy place]

The holy ones; "the Brahmanical Sectarians 'beyond' the Himalayas called 'infidels' by the Buddhist in the sacred land, Tibet, and vice versa" (VS 85-6).

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Aparadha - offenses committed against the holy name, the Vaisnavas, the guru, the sastras, the holy places, the Deity and so on. The verbal root radha means to give pleasure or satisfy and the prefix apa means taking away. Thus the word aparadha signifies all activities that are displeasing to Bhagavan and His bhaktas.

(See also: Aparadha, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

Adytum:

From the Greek term 'aduton', which means a place to which entrance is forbidden. This is a term alternatively used with 'sanctum sanctorum' or 'Holy of Holies' to describe the innermost sanctum of a temple or church, or an area of sacred space in occult practices.

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Beard: To esteem someone highly. (See also the book "In A Dream, In A Vision of the Night" by Susan Noone Riddle). (Ps. 133:2; Ezra 9:3; Jer. 48:37, 38; 2 Sam. 10:4; 20:9; 1 Sam. 21:12, 13; Lev. 19:27)

(Source: Tehillah Ministries)

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beard, esteem,

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