Crosby, known as a bit of a failed poet himself (I strongly disagree with that claim), as I said before, was devoted to worshipping the sun and was apparently the butt of many a joke from Hemingway.
He looked like an itinerant preacher devoted to the worship of a tetchy and uncoöperative God.
Also important is Shivaratri, a day normally in February that is devoted to the worship of Shiva.
The New Yorker, December 3 , 1927P. 19 A society of eight members devoted to the worship of Encke's Comet.
The site itself is the centre of several groups of ruins of almost simultaneous occupation, each of which was in some way devoted to Zoroastrian worship.
The Thracians were eventually expelled or absorbed by Greek, Persian, and Roman colonies, but traces of their culture remain in their monuments devoted to horse worship and in the mummer (Bulgarian: kuker) tradition that still survives in southwestern Bulgaria.
To the north of the Gulf of Corinth, Mount Helicon slopes down into a broad valley that, in classical times, was the location of a sanctuary devoted to the worship of the nine muses.
But that promise of its military commander in Palmyra was detonated last month when photographs released by Isis showed that Palmyra's second most important temple, the Temple of Baal Shamin (a temple to a Phoenician god and so different from the Temple of Bel, which was devoted to the worship of a Mesopotamian god, explains Burns helpfully), had been dynamited.
The Shri Vidya sect devoted to Goddess worship was strong here until the 17th century.
