Dinsel
Gezinti kısmına atla
Arama kısmına atla
(İng. religious)
Göndermeler[düzenle]
Diğer[düzenle]
| Herodotus (1.199), for instance, records that some of the prostitutes at the temple of ‘Ashtart on Cyprus were ordinary women who had temporarily dedicated their bodies to the goddess in gratitude for an answered prayer or as the result of religious obligation.[1] |
| Significantly, as evinced in De Dea Syria, the Phoenician cities still showed signs of religious autonomy in the second century CE despite all of the inducements towards syncretism which had been offered firstly by Hellenisation and then by Romanisation.[2] |
| According to Philo, the Phoenicians associated the notion of death with the god Muth, a primordial deity that presided over the muddy, putrid netherworld to which spirits were believed to descend. Philo’s account appears to reflect a wider religious tradition which held that after death the soul of the deceased transitioned to an unknown, bleak and desolate place where it joined the spirits of its ancestors.[3] |
Notlar[düzenle]
- ↑ Woolmer, Mark (2002). A Short History of the Phoenicians. London, New York: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd. s. 71.
- ↑ Woolmer, Mark (2002). A Short History of the Phoenicians. London, New York: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd. s. 108.
- ↑ Woolmer, Mark (2002). A Short History of the Phoenicians. London, New York: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd. s. 131.