It is traditional for Greeks to name their newborn children after the grandparents, resulting in a continuation of names in the family line. In more recent years, new names are also introduced due to the plethora of Greek male and female names. Sometimes, the names given to babies have to...
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Introduced in season 2 of the Paramount+ horror-drama show and played by Emmy winner Andrea Martin, Sister Andrea is one of the nuns living at the Church where David is headquartered, though unlike others there, she takes no nonsense when it comes to the priest's behaviors. Sister Andrea ...
(Strab. xiv. p. 641; Paus. iv. 31. § 6, vii. 5. § 2., The symbol of this divinity was a bee, and her highpriest bore the name of king (essên). Her worship was said to have been established at Ephesus by the Amazons. (Paus. ii. 7. § 4, viii. 12. § 1; Hesych...
The principal seat of his worship was Arcadia and from thence his name and his worship afterwards spread over other parts of Greece; and at Athens his worship was not introduced till the time of the battle of Marathon. (Paus. viii. 26. § 2; Virg. Eclog. x. 26; Pind. Frag. 63, ...
The priest uses the child's baptismal name for the first time and asks God to cleanse away sin. The priest, the godparents, and the child go to the baptismal font at the front of the church, where the priest consecrates the water, adding olive oil to it as a symbol of reconciliation...
Greek Name Φασις Transliteration Phasis Latin Spelling Phasis Translation River Phasis PHASIS was a river-god of Kolkhis (Colchis) at the easternmost end of the Black Sea (modern day Georgia). The Phasis River had its headwaters in the Kaukasos (Caucasus) Mountains and flowed ...
Standing at the beginning of British (and English) history, his name came to be applied to the whole of it, just as the first twoGreek letters, alpha and beta, have given the name to the alphabet.] Laghamon was a humble parish priest in Worcestershire, and his thirty-two thousand half...
Most theater and history buffs can nameThespisof ancient Greece, the world's first known actor, and the origin of theater term thespian. Some believe he was also a priest for the Greek god of food and wine, Dionysus. What does the Greek word Skene mean?
He is said to have married Proserpina (really a Greek name, for she is the same as the goddess called Persephone in Greek)--they think that she represents the seed of corn, and fable that she was hidden away, and sought for by her mother. The mother is Ceres [Demeter]."...