See Henzen, Acta Fratrum Arvalium 15, for the pueri patrimi et matrimi, representing in that ancient cult the children of the old Roman family.
The cult of Saturn was largely affected by Greek usage, but this particular custom was more likely descended from the usage of the Latin farm.
The third period is marked by the formation of academies, in which the classics were studied and humanized, and which as a result produced a special cult of learning.
The cult of form during the Renaissance had produced a reaction against the formlessness and invertebrate character of mediaeval literature.
In the first place, the imitation of the classics resulted in the study and cult of external form.
Anything that becomes a dogma or a cult is not unconventional, for it is the standard or the custom of a group.
The explanation of dreams also did not go counter to the doctrines of the Church, and so the cult found many believers among all classes of society.
The cult of the Goddess indicated that the original Estoryans must have migrated from the oceanside to the center of the vast and level plains.
There were many foreigners in town, sailors from every nation that had a border on the Xurdimur, pilgrims who belonged to the far-flung cult of the Fish Goddess and had come here for the Festival.
It was no mere sleight of hand that launched thiscult upon the world as the last days came.
Mr. Fox, that the modern cult originated, it being found that by mysterious but clear sounds of knocking, unseen intelligences were able to communicate answers to questions asked.
His morality is not yet separated from his religion; and religion for him means the cult of some superior being--the king or priest of his tribe--whose person is charged with a kind of sacred electricity.
A priesthood was constituted in his honour, which handed down his cult to later times, and bore witness to the impression made on the Egyptian mind by his character and his successes.
And besides this local animal-cult, there was a cult which was general.
And again, how could any one devote himself to the cult of an almost contemporary saint or the worship of a martyr, and not find abundant miracles?
The cult of the Virgin and the saints was of very early growth.
In India the cult of the Seven-headed Naja, or serpent-god, was formerly almost as flourishing as that of Buddha.
In ancient days the cultof the snake occupied a prominent place.
It is evident from what has been said that the legends and cult of many women pseudo-saints have traits in common; indeed the acts ascribed to different saints are often exactly similar.
We hear how Afra and her mother came from Cyprus, an island which mediaeval, following the classical writers, associated with the cult of Venus, and how she settled at Augsburg and kept a house of ill fame with three companions.
The locus of theircult is in separate villages, but they are venerated as a triad in connection with a holy well and lie buried together under an ancient oak[133].
The heathen festival in many ways carried on the traditions of the tribal festival; the tribal festival was connected with the cult of tribal goddesses.
Their cult generally centres round a cave, a fountain of peculiar power, a tree, or some other site of primitive woman-worship.
The deity to whom the prophets, seers, and devotees who founded the particular cult bore witness was worth something to them personally.
Over and above the mystery of self-surrender, there are in the cult of poverty other religious mysteries.
The democracy which is an offshoot of the enthusiasm of humanity, and of which I will speak later under the head of the cult of poverty, doubtless bore also a share.
Outside of the tiny cult of computer enthusiasts, few people thought much about the implications of "breaking into" computers.
In absorbing the Dravidian tribes, Brahmanism appropriated the totemistic cult and incorporated it into the caste system.
It is, of course, a doctrine possible only in connection with a personal God, and was doubtless introduced through the new cult of Krishna-olatry.
Within these few short years a new cult had begun to grow around the person of Chunder Sen, like those around a thousand others well known in the history of India.
But the character of the worship which is rendered to him and to others of his cult is far from ennobling when not actually revolting.
Sakti worship, or the worship of the goddesses, lends itself definitely to this gross evil; and the leading Tantraic books of this cult are so filthy that they are not fit to be translated.
They rallied round one of the multitude of the Hindu religious reformers, named Nanak Shah, who established this cult about the end of the fifteenth century.
Theosophy magnifies into a cult this function of bringing religions together.
And this is the more remarkable since the worship of Krishna is distinctly a part of the Vaishnavite cult of Hinduism, and as such does not appeal to the Saivites, or the worshippers of Siva.
And many Dravidian castes which are identified with this cult have the striking peculiarity of being exogamous as contrasted with the endogamy of the Aryan section of Hindu castes.
He believed that he should be doing both a popular and a politic act if he saved them from the burden of this long journey and again decentralised the cult which Solomon had so recently centralised.
As it was the new cult does not seem to have been interrupted for a single day.
Eight hundred and fifty of them fed in splendour at Jezebel's table, and the pomp of their sensuous cult threw wholly into the shade the worship of the God of Israel.
Wagner was not absolutely wrong in his notion that music will be the religion of the future, or, at least, the cult of the future.
These examples are open to discussion, but even if they were not, it in nowise follows that all other forms of religion spring from a cult for the dead.
The most primitive cult is always essentially a counterfeit of an advanced social state; an imitation, in an imaginary commerce with the gods, of a commerce already existing among men united by complex ties.
Müller, and Schultze, a cult for the moon and nocturnal stars must have preceded that of the sun, contrary to the weight of opinion heretofore.
We reply that this need is not absolute: are not Protestant women content with a cult which does not appeal to the senses?
In the fifteenth century there was established in Europe the cult of a three-headed god, whose priests had won lordship over a continent.
I find that what freedom means in the West is the ability of ignorant and fanatical persons to start some new, fantastical quirk of scriptural interpretation, to build a new cult around it, and earn a living out of it.
Regarding which doctrine we may simply say that, if religion is profitable in this way only, it may as well be frankly given up and the cult of happiness adopted for it everywhere.
In the Yahveh cult the pronouncements were no longer subject to the decisions at local centres.
If the figure was carried to Sinai at the time when similar figures were offered in Egypt, the establishment of the moon-cult in the peninsula dates back to the pre-dynastic days of Egypt.
Hathor, however, was not the only divinity whose cult was located at Serabit.
This cave, according to a statement of Jerome, was connected with the cult of Adonis in ancient times.
Many small objects similar to those brought during the Eighteenth Dynasty were presented at the shrine by the Pharaohs of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties, who worked extensively at the mines, where the cult of Hathor continued.
Various allusions render it probable that the cult of Yahveh was peculiar to the Kenites whose home lay in Edom.
A great impetus was given to the cult of St. Katherine in Europe by the visit to Rouen of the hermit Simeon about the year 1026.
We are left to infer that a shrine of Sopd, presumably a centre for the administration of justice, was connected here also with the localised cult of the moon.
At Abydos more than sixty were discovered in the winter of 1902 in a chamber at the lowest temple level, where they were apparently placed when the later cult of Osiris superseded the earlier cult of Thoth.
The cult of St. Katherine, virgin saint and martyr, is among the curious developments of legendary history, for her name appears for the first time about three hundred years after her reputed existence.
The tanks at Serabit were therefore connected with the cultof Sopd, and their presence confirms the Semitic character of the place.
The utterance shows that offerings in food and drink as well as incense burning was customary in the cult of the Semitic goddess.
Of the smaller cult objects which now accumulated in the sanctuary, many were carried off before the winter of 1906, and are scattered in various museums.
This attitude was also in large measure due to the inevitable fusion of the cult of the Virgin and the cult of woman, which in the thirteenth century developed into a faith.
Respect for womankind grew in the Middle Ages in France under the double influence of religion and chivalry, of which the cult of the Virgin and the cult of woman were the outcome.
The cult of savagery, and even of simplicity, in every form, simply spells complex civilization and diminished physical vitality.
The younger generation are always talking of life; they have a sort of cult of life.
Now when Cleisthenes became tyrant of Sicyon he felt that the cult of the local hero was a danger.
The details of the ritual show this clearly, and specially as already seen in the cult of Osiris.
