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CULT OF FIRE THE CULT OF FIRE goes back to the earliest phase of Aryan nomad religion . The five daily offerings to the fire , accompanied by the short prayer Atash Niyayesh , remain typical of Zoroastrian worship .
CULT OF FIRE THE CULT OF FIRE goes back to the earliest phase of Aryan nomad religion . The five daily offerings to the fire , accompanied by the short prayer Atash Niyayesh , remain typical of Zoroastrian worship .
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Her cult was brought into his entourage . Rome in 204 BCE on the advice of an oracle . In one version of the myth by the Christian writer Arnobius ( fourth century CE ) , Cybele was born from a great rock in Phrygia ( the one from which ...
Her cult was brought into his entourage . Rome in 204 BCE on the advice of an oracle . In one version of the myth by the Christian writer Arnobius ( fourth century CE ) , Cybele was born from a great rock in Phrygia ( the one from which ...
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In the Society Islands when the cult - followers of Tane were defeated sometime early in the eighteenth century the god of dalliance ' Oro replaced his father ' Ta'aroa as god of the firmament and principal war god .
In the Society Islands when the cult - followers of Tane were defeated sometime early in the eighteenth century the god of dalliance ' Oro replaced his father ' Ta'aroa as god of the firmament and principal war god .
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| Title | World Mythology |
| Editor | Arthur Cotterell |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Parragon Incorporated, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1405447672, 9781405447676 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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