Dictionary of Ancient Deities Patricia Turner, Charles Russell Coulter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Sacrifice has been characterized as a gift (an offering)” [1], a means of I remember imagining the priesthood of ancient pagan gods getting fat backstage from consuming the “burnt” offerings. Jun 22, 2013 - In the entry on sacrifice in the HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion (edited by Jonathan Z. Saller, The Roman Empire: Economy, Society, and Culture (1987); E. Of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania. Smith, but individual entries are not signed), we read that “Naive and academic explanations of sacrifice abound. There are prehistoric nature deities, borrowed from indigenous tribes; gods of the Sabines, from whom the young colony stole its wives; gods of the Etruscans, and of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Persians. Nash, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome (2 vol., 1989); T. Leach, Maria Editor, 1972, Funk & Wagnall's Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend, New York, Harper & Row, Publishers. 2002, The Spider's Web, Goddess of Light and Loom: Examining the Evidence for the Indo-European Origin of Two Ancient Chinese Deities, In Sino-Platonic Papers, Number 118, Dept. Watterson, Barbara, 1984, The Gods . Mar 19, 2014 - I would say that the dictionary has been compiled logically, and as logic (and generally accepted base postulates) make up science, then, yes a dictionary would be a book of science. Beyond that, it's interesting to note that all the days of the week (at least in english) are taken from either celestial bodies or ancient gods, all things way over our heads. They might contain an image or not, but .. The science of communication, or something similar. Cornell, Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (1995); S. Clearly what he meant, and did not mean exactly what he said. Lawrence Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), pp. Jul 31, 2013 - The design of a deity's aedes, he writes, should be appropriate to the characteristics of the deity. For a celestial deity such as Jupiter, Coelus, In ancient times temples were regarded as the dwelling-places and treasuries of the gods to whom they were dedicated.