Still others have tried to make a case that it was part of a drainage system for the blood of sacrifices from the Temple altar.

Every day, he had to gather water, to cook for all the monks, and to clean up and take care of the temple altars.

Psyche fell on her knees, wiped away her tears, and embracing the temple altar, still warm from a recent sacrifice, began to pray.

Paoul had also been told that the temple altar, suspended as it were between heaven and earth, was exactly one fifth of this height above sea level.

Images of the buddhas and bodhisattvas on temple altars and in the homes of devotees serve as a focus for worship.

When conquered people were not sacrificed on temple altars, the males of conquered nations were often demoted to the status of women.

But whether a warrior died on the battlefield or on a temple altar, his was accounted a Flowery Death, honorable to himself and satisfying to the gods.

Those who could afford to do so led animals for sacrifice at the temple altars, and one could hear the lowing of cattle and the cry of sheep.

The discovery of temple altars and corpulent human representations suggests that some type of cult existed on the islands of Malta and Gozo in prehistory.

Asians give them as offerings at temple altars, where their gold color symbolizes prosperity; they also peel and eat them, carefully removing the tough, bitter membrane from each section.

In photographs by Atta Kim, nude models sit in reliquarylike display cases on Buddhist temple altars, as well as in museums and on city streets.

Because of the intricacy of its ornamentation, the caisson was reserved for the ceilings of the most important Chinese buildings such as imperial palaces and Buddhist temple altars.

Obverse design: temple altar found in the Mnajdra, a megalithic temple complex in Malta (UNESCO World Heritage Site).

An impressive large-scale re-creation of a temple altar in the show's first gallery, for example, includes spoons for ladling holy water over statues, which are also anointed with sandalwood paste and colored powders.

A little away from the river front, the mela area is bustling with small roadside vendors selling tea, sweets, colourful photographs of Hindu deities and small round white candies generally offered at the temple altar.

Rabbinic literature constructed a concept suggesting that a table set for a meal was to symbolize the Temple altar; salt should be placed on the table and the blessing over food should not be recited without it.

The Talmud (Zevachin 107a) and the author of Kaftor VeFerach cite a location near or on the street as the site where the deshen (ashes) from sacrifices on the Temple Altar were deposited.

The imagery of the Eternal Buddha used in the Great Sacred Hall, and all temple altars, is of a standing Buddha enveloped in a fiery halo, within are four, smaller Bodhisattvas:

Hanukkah marks the rededication of the Temple after the king of Syria, Antiochus IV, declared himself divine and defiled the Jewish place of worship by placing Greek idols on the Temple altar.

The distance between the temple altar and the waterfall, furthermore, was exactly one five thousandth of the equatorial axis or, measured in standard bars, three thousand one hundred and twenty-five or five raised to the power of five.

The head of Antenociticus and the temple altars, formerly displayed at the Museum of Antiquities at Newcastle University, can now be seen at the Great North Museum in the same city of Newcastle.

But away from the ceremonial drums and the incense swirling around the Joenji temple altar, Abe has undertaken another task, no less harrowing -- to search out radioactive "hot spots" and clean them up, storing irradiated earth on temple grounds.

That most blasphemous of all desecrations of the Jerusalem Temple occurred in 168 B.C., when Antiochus ordered that swine, the most ceremonially unclean of all animals, be offered on the Temple altar of burnt offerings.

Accordingly, since the Ma'ariv service was originally optional, as it replaces the overnight burning of ashes on the Temple altar rather than a specific sacrifice, Maariv's Amidah is not repeated by the hazzan (reader), while all other Amidot are repeated.

After the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in A.D. 70, lines such as these would encourage the Jews in their attempt to reconstruct their religion on the basis of rabbis, prayers, and synagogues rather then priests, sacrifices, and Temple altars.