Among the Barea the festive gatherings are held in a sacred grove.
Condylea in Arcadia, sacred grove of Artemis at, i.
Among the Nahanarvals, an ancient German tribe, a priest garbed as a woman presided over a sacred grove.
The golden fleece itself he gave to his wife's father, who nailed it to an oak tree, guarded by a sleepless dragon in a sacred grove of Ares.
Sometimes there is a sacred grove near a village, where the trees are suffered to rot and die on the spot.
At Upsala, the old religious capital of Sweden, there was a sacred grove in which every tree was regarded as divine.
There was an altar erected to her near the Porta Lavernalis, which was called after her, and she possessed a sacred grove on the Via Salavia.
From a remote period she was greatly venerated at Olympia, and her temple there, which stood in the Altis or sacred grove, was five hundred years older than that of Zeus on the same spot.
In the Hervey Islands a marae seems to have been a sacred grove.
A few were buried in the earth within the precincts of a sacred grove (marae); but by far the greater number were hidden in caves which were regarded as the private property of certain families.
Then the bones were tied up, decked with feathers of the gannet, rolled up in blankets, and carried to their last place of rest in a sacred grove, where they were left, securely fastened up and gaudily decorated with red and white.
According to Virgil the oldest inhabitants of Latium allotted to Silvanus a sacred grove and a special festival;[123] in later times he was universally regarded as the patron of the garden and field.
Deswali is the god of the village, and he lives with his wife in the Sarna or sacred grove, a patch of the primeval forest left intact to afford a refuge for the forest gods.
He asks them in what jungle they wish to hunt, and they name the sarna or sacred grove in which the bones of his ancestors are buried.
Thakur Deo, who is usually considered a corn-god, dwells in a sacred grove, of which no tree or branch may be cut or broken.
It was the tradition which inspired the austere detachment of the poetry of Persius, with its dim solemnity and obscure depths, as of a sacred grove.
Antoninus Pius built a temple to Juno Sospita of Lanuvium, where the goddess had a sacred grove, and a worship of great antiquity.
The festival began and ended in the master's house at Rome, the intermediate day being spent in a sacred grove on the right bank of the Tiber, about four miles from the city.
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