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New Creative Relevant Search filters Ancient Religions Stock Photos and Images  (13,134) Narrow your search: Vectors | Black & white | Cut Outs Page 1 of 132 Apr. 04, 1956 - Ancient Religions production hell in Italian village to observe good Friday. Each year. in Valmontone, a little Apr. 04, 1956 - Ancient Religions production hell in Italian village to observe good Friday. 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Diodorus Siculus irecognised the importance of Crete as the cradle of Hellenicreligion when he wrote : Ihe Cretans assert that honours paid tothe gods, sacrifices and initiation into the mysteries are Cretandiscoveries which were borrowed by other peoples. jvojwan in the ancient religions 273 Artemis was the goddess who represented Nature as feminine,the The palaces of Crete and their builders . s that Aphrodite was born of thesea-foam, and modern science, confirmmg this poetic idea, tellsus that the sea is the origin of life and that within it are to befound progenitors of all animal species. 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Under the fifth-century B.C. statesman Pericles, the time of the Golden Age of Athens, the temple dedicated to the goddess Athena, the Parthenon, was built.https://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/?v=1https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-this-photo-taken-around-1990-shows-a-front-view-of-the-acropolis-in-134140897.html money / finances, coins, ancient world, Roman Empire, as, obverse, portrait of the God Janus, obverse, wood engraving, 19th century, ancient world, ancient times, Roman, Rome, numismatics, religion, religions, profile, side-face, profiles, coin, coins, God, Gods, deity, divinity, deities, as, asses, historic, historical, male, man, ancient world, people, men, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available money / finances, coins, ancient world, Roman Empire, as, obverse, portrait of the God Janus, obverse, wood engraving, 19th century, ancient world, ancient times, Roman, Rome, numismatics, religion, religions, profile, side-face, profiles, coin, coins, God, Gods, deity, divinity, deities, as, asses, historic, historical, male, man, ancient world, people, men, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Availablehttps://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/?v=1https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-money-finances-coins-ancient-world-roman-empire-as-obverse-portrait-106897098.html Ruins of the temple of Demeter at the Acropolis of Ancient Lepreo, Ileia ('Elis'), Peloponnese, Greece. Ruins of the temple of Demeter at the Acropolis of Ancient Lepreo, Ileia ('Elis'), Peloponnese, Greece.https://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/?v=1https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-ruins-of-the-temple-of-demeter-at-the-acropolis-of-ancient-lepreo-75229678.html Egypt, Ancient Thebes (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1979). Luxor. Temple of Amon. Shrine of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). Relief of Alexander before god Min Egypt, Ancient Thebes (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1979). Luxor. Temple of Amon. Shrine of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). Relief of Alexander before god Minhttps://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/?v=1https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-egypt-ancient-thebes-unesco-world-heritage-list-1979-luxor-temple-164350303.html The palaces of Crete and their builders . FIG. 131.—FEMALE IDOL FOUND AT PH^ESTOS IXNEOLITHIC SOIL NEAR A MAGNETIC STONE. In early religions the divine ideal takes a female form.From the Neolithic to the Mycenasan age male images are theexception. It is worth while to examine into the causes of thispreference. Dr. Xanthoudides, Ephor of Antiquities at Candia, found,while excavating at Koumasa, near Gortyna, some very ancienttombs belonging to the third period of the first Minoan age WOMAN IN THE ANCIENT RELIGIONS 271 (according to Evans Chronology) (Fig. 132). The weaponscontained in these tom The palaces of Crete and their builders . FIG. 131.—FEMALE IDOL FOUND AT PH^ESTOS IXNEOLITHIC SOIL NEAR A MAGNETIC STONE. In early religions the divine ideal takes a female form.From the Neolithic to the Mycenasan age male images are theexception. It is worth while to examine into the causes of thispreference. Dr. Xanthoudides, Ephor of Antiquities at Candia, found,while excavating at Koumasa, near Gortyna, some very ancienttombs belonging to the third period of the first Minoan age WOMAN IN THE ANCIENT RELIGIONS 271 (according to Evans Chronology) (Fig. 132). 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