When was pankration removed from the Olympics? They were abolished inA.D. 393by the Emperor Theodosius, a Christian who saw the worship of Zeus throughout the games as a pagan abomination. Is pankration still a sport? Does Pankration still exist? Whilst Pankration is originally a sport entered...
Although the prophecy in Joel chapter two was partially fulfilled at Pentecost, many believe the passage actually applies to Tribulation saints. But stretching the “rainy season” to cover both the Church age and the Great Tribulation period is like providing the “planting rain” to one field a...
Israel Asks for a King - When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Israel’s leaders. The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his
Mardi Gras Carnival, which began during the Pagan celebrations, has become a crazy, fun-filled event to be believed. With balls, parades, masks and indulgence with food and drink, Mardi Gras is one of the truly unique holidays in the world.Mardi...
“The First hammer stroke upon the old palace of Ziani was the first act of the period properly called the Renaissance. It was the knell of the architecture of Venice, and of Venice herself.” Ruskin. Petrarch’s library founded by Grimani Breviary. S. Maria Formsa, “St. Barbara” ...
God desired to have it generally acknowledged that He was the God of the whole earth. Pulpit CommentaryVerse 29. - As soon as I am gone out of the city. "The city" is probably Tanis (Zoan). We may gather from the expression of this verse, and again of verse 33, that Moses and ...
To the Hebrew authors of the Bible the expression Leviathan was probably only a general one, meaning any great land or sea monster. Their highly colored descriptions of this great beast may well have been founded on a variety of creatures they knew or had heard about: the sperm whale, ...
Although some Christians already lived in Ireland at the time, the country was largely pagan, so spreading a foreign religion was not an easy task. Patricius traveled from village to village to share the teachings of the Lord and was eventually successful enough to found many churches there. ...
According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles, a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which we still have written records was held in 776 BC. At this Olympic Games, a naked runner, Coroebus—a cooker from Elis, won the sole【M1】___ event at the ...
In his 1872 work,The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that the purpose of the Dionysian in art, particularly that of theater and music, was to engage the individual in what he called Primordial Unity, thereby transcending the sorrows of this world and find...