Sentence examples for ancient worship from inspiring English sources
These associations ultimately derive from the place of bees in various forms of ancient worship.
Back then, there had been moments when he was nostalgic for the orphanage, with its ordered routines centered on the comforting rhythms of the ancient worship rituals.
The ancient worship of dragon and tiger leaves its footprint in Chinese lexicon, and dragon-tiger idioms such as 生龙活虎 shenglong huohu "full of vim and vigor," literally "living dragon, living tiger," and 藏龙卧虎 canglong wohu "hidden talents," literally "hidden dragon, crouching tiger," are still an active part of the ordinary lexicon.
In her ground-breaking 1976 book, When God Was a Woman, historian Merlin Stone traces ancient worship of the Goddess back to the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages.
"We really do not know, one way or the other, whether the ancients worshipped the holy spores of God," Letcher continues.
"Cousin, do you remember me from 2,600 years ago, when I sold you a shipload of ivory from Africa?" Mahmoud the red-scarfed storyteller shines his torch along our path, lighting the pavement where Hadrian walked, the statues where ancients worshipped and the walls of rock that rise on either side of us to a crack of night sky 500ft above.
The influence of the ancient Iranian worship of Mithra is evident as early as the 1st century ce.
"And all this, by the way, is very close to the ancient bull worship in Crete," Fuller added.
Prajnaparamita was not only a form of wisdom, but also a female deity who had roots in ancient goddess worship and was identified with the Buddha's mother.
My mother obligingly brought in a picture book and began to read about foreign conquerors who were not letting Jews in ancient Israel worship freely, even defiling their temple, until a scrappy group led by the Maccabee family overthrew one of the most powerful armies in the world and won their liberty.
During this period in the ancient world, worship of female deities was widespread and immensely powerful.
