pujari

A devotee who performs the direct worship and service of the Deity in a temple.

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CROMLECH: Welsh word for an uneven structure of stone often used by a grove as a temple.

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ISEUM

A museum or temple storehouse containing art and material pertaining and sacred to Isis.

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ADYTUM

A temple, oracular shrine of holy of holies which only priests may enter.

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Juhu Beach

location of the ISKCON temple in Mumbai, India.

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Hare Krishna Land

name of the ISKCON temple in Mumbai, India.

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Devadas:

Devadas (is). "Servants of the Gods". Temple prostitutes.

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Sacrarium (Latin) The place wherein sacra (sacred objects) were kept; a shrine in a private house or temple.

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

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Moriah moriyyah (Hebrew) In the Bible, the Mount in Jerusalem on which Solomon built the temple (2 Chron 3:1).

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Qodesh Qodashim The "holy of holies" in the temple; while in the Zohar the Holy Ancient one is called Attiqa' Qaddisha. In the Codex Nazaraeus the sun was named Kadush (holy).

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Chidambaram:

Chidambaram (Chidhambaram). Town 122 miles SSW of Madras, noted for its temple dedicated to Siva in his aspect of "cosmic dancer", Nataraja.

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Panchaloha:

Panchaloha: it was a sheet of alloy of five metals, gold, silver, copper, brass and iron, the Panchaloha, out of which temple idols have to be made. (SSS-III)

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vi-jnana-mandir:

vi-jnana-mandir (vi-jnaana-mandhi). Temple of spiritual wisdom.

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Dhoti and kurta:

Dhoti and kurta: Long piece of cloth worn around the waist and long shirt. Standard clothing worn by the male temple-devotees.

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siva:

siva. (shiva). Also sivam. Temple, the divine; refers to Siva. Also, grace, auspiciousness, goodness.

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Gnothi Seauton (Greek) "Know yourself"; the motto written over the portico of one of the temples of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. ()

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Iamblichus (255?-333) Neoplatonic theurgist, mystic, and reviver of the practical mysteries outside of Mystery schools or temples. Student of Porphyry and founder of the Syrian Neoplatonic school.

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Karli A village about 45 miles southeast of Bombay, famous for its rock-cut cave-temple, the finest of its kind in India.

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Artufas, Estufas Initiation caves or the underground secret temples of the Central American Indians, called kivas by the Indians of the southwestern United States.

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Daduchus dadouchos (Greek) A torch-bearer; one of the four celebrants in the Eleusinian Mysteries, preceding the Mystae in the procession to the temple of Demeter on the fifth day of the celebration of those rites.

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Gnothi Seauton (Greek) "Know yourself"; the motto written over the portico of one of the temples of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. ()

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