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Lost Temples: Lost City of Angkor Wat
Journey to the ancient religious complex of Angkor Wat in the jungles of Cambodia. A "city of temples" that reveals itself through a vast labyrinth of carved facades, galleries, and stairways.
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Length: 173
Rating: 4.90 (143 ratings)
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Temples of Baalbek and Anjar
Visit of / Visite de / Besuch von / Visita de / Chiamata di de Baalbek & Anjar
زياره بعلبك / Baalbekの訪問 / Baalbek의 방문 / 访问巴勒贝克
Baalbek (Arabic: بعلبك) is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude 3,850 ft (1,170 m), situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed but monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman period, when Baalbek, known as Heliopolis was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire. It is located at 34°00′22″N, 36°12′31″E about 200 km east of Beirut.
At present, Baalbek serves as the primary center of the Shia population of the Bekaa Valley and one of the main training camps for the Hizbullah forces.
Heliopolis (there was another Heliopolis in Egypt) was made a colonia by the Roman Empire in 15 BC and a legion was stationed there. Work on the religious complex there lasted over a century and a half and was never completed. The dedication of the present temple ruins, the largest religious building in the entire Roman empire, dates from the reign of Septimus Severus, whose coins first show the two temples. The great courts of approach were not finished before the reigns of Caracalla and Philip. In commemoration, no doubt, of the dedication of the new sanctuaries, Severus conferred the rights of the jus italicum on the city. Today, only six Corinthian columns remain standing. Eight more were disassembled and shipped to Constantinople under Justinian's orders, for his basilica of Hagia Sophia.
The greatest of the three temples was sacred to Jupiter Baal, ("Heliopolitan Zeus"), identified here with the sun, with whom were associated a temple to Venus and a lesser temple in honor of Bacchus (though it was traditionally referred to by Neoclassical visitors as "Temple of the Sun"). Thus three Eastern deities were worshipped in Roman guise: thundering Jove, the god of storms, stood in for Baal-Hadad, Venus for 'Ashtart (known in English as Astarte) and Bacchus for Anatolian Dionysus.
Jupiter-Baal was represented locally (on coinage) as a beardless god in long scaly drapery, holding a whip in his right hand and thunderbolts and ears of wheat in his left. Two bulls supported him. In this guise he passed into European worship in the 3rd century and 4th century AD. The icon of Helipolitan Zeus (in A.B. Cook, Zeus, i:570-576) bore busts of the seven planetary powers on the front of the pillarlike term in which he was encased. A bronze statuette of this Heliopolitan Zeus was discovered at Tortosa, Spain; another was found at Byblos in Phoenicia. A comparable iconic image is the Lady of Ephesus (see illustration) (Robert Graves, The Greek Myths I.4).
The extreme licence of the Heliopolitan worship of Aphrodite was often commented upon by early Christian writers, and Constantine, making an effort to curb the Venus cult, built a basilica. Theodosius I erected another, with a western apse, occupying the main court of the Jupiter temple, as was Christian practice everywhere. The vast stone blocks of its walls were taken from the temple itself. Today nothing of the Theodosian basilica remains.
Other Emperors enriched the sanctuary of Heliopolitan Jupiter each in turn. Nero (54-68 BC) built the tower-altar opposite the Temple of Jupiter, Trajan added the forecourt to the Temple of Jupiter, with porticos of pink granite brought from Aswan in Egypt. Antoninus Pius built the Temple of Bacchus, the best preserved of the sanctuary's structures, for it was protected by the very rubble of the site's ruins. It is enriched with refined reliefs and sculpture. Septimus Severus added a pentagonal Temple of Venus, who as Aphrodite had enjoyed an early Syrian role with her consort Adonis ("Lord," the Aramaic translation of "Baal."). Christian writers competed with one another to execrate her worship. Eusebius of Caesarea, down the coast, averred that 'men and women vie with one another to honour their shameless goddess; husbands and fathers let their wives and daughters publicly prostitute themselves to please Astarte'. Emperor Philip the Arab (244-249) was the last to add a monument at Heliopolis— the hexagonal forecourt. When he was finished Heliopolis and Praeneste in Italy were the two largest sanctuaries in the Western world. (wikipedia)
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Length: 234
Rating: 4.80 (57 ratings)
Tags: Baalbek baalbeck بعلبك Bekaa Liban Lebanon Libanon Líbano レバノン لبنان 레바논 黎巴嫩
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Inside a Mormon Temple (part 2)
A photo and video tour through the rooms of various Temples constructed to the Lord by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Latter-day Saints (Mormons) worship in chapels in their local communities on Sundays, while the highest sacraments of the faith, such as eternal marriage, are performed in Temples, which are set apart from the world as sacred, and holy--The House of the Lord.
Length: 228
Rating: 4.20 (116 ratings)
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LDS Temples are beautiful
This video is for those that want to see how beautiful the LDS Temples are.
Length: 224
Rating: 4.70 (187 ratings)
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Underworld: Temples Of Gold
A bit of a sappy romance amv, but good none the less. Images are from Underworld and Underworld: Evolution. Song is Temples Of Gold by Kamelot.
Length: 261
Rating: 4.40 (58 ratings)
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Living Wonders of India - Temples of Tamil Nadu
Happened to see the campaign for new seven wonders. Finally, some New7Wonders got selected which are:
1) not democratically elected (one person can vote for any candidate million times)
2) not elected by every single citizen of this WORLD
3) got elected by particular countries by means of extensive use of campaigns, kiosks, SMS, internet, etc.
4) got voted for sentimental reasons
There are so many other monuments got omitted simply because lack of knowledge and research work. Tomorrow some other COMMERCIAL organizations come and do the same thing. Every seven months New7Wonders! Again SMS, mails, kiosks, etc.
In this video, you can see some real living architectural wonders of Tamil Nadu, South India. They are not only places of architectural beauty, but also home for millennia old wonderful art, music, dance, painting and literature forms ever known to human kind.
Length: 615
Rating: 5.00 (27 ratings)
Tags: Incredible India Temples Tamil Nadu Kanchi Madurai Chidambaram Poombukar Thiruvannamalai Chennai Kanyakumari Tanjavur
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Khajuraho temples, central India
From our trip around North India. Khajuraho temples with many sculptures in erotic positions. November 2006.
Khajuraho (Hindi: खजुराहो) is a village in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, located in Chhatarpur District, about 385 miles (620 kilometres) southeast of Delhi, the capital city of India.
The Khajuraho group of monuments has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
One of the most popular tourist destinations in India, Khajuraho has the largest group of medieval Hindu and Jain temples, famous for their erotic sculpture. The name Khajuraho is derived from the Hindi word khajur meaning date palm.
The city was once the original capital of the Chandela Rajputs, a Hindu dynasty that ruled this part of India from the 10th to the 12th centuries. The Khajuraho temples were built over a span of a hundred years, from 950 to 1050. The Chandela capital was moved to Mahoba after this time, but Khajuraho continued to flourish for some time.
The whole area was enclosed by a wall with eight gates, each flanked by two golden palm trees. There were originally over 80 Hindu temples, of which only 22 now stand in a reasonable state of preservation, scattered over an area of about 8 square miles (21 km²).
Unlike other cultural centers of North India, the temples of Khajuraho never underwent massive destruction and a number of them have survived. They are fine examples of Indian architectural styles that have gained popularity due to their salacious depiction of the traditional way of life during medieval times. They were rediscovered during the late 19th century and the jungles had taken a toll on some of the monuments.
The Khajuraho temples do not contain sexual or erotic art inside the temple or near the deities; however, some external carvings bear erotic art. Also, some of the temples that have two layers of walls have small erotic carvings on the outside of the inner wall. There are many interpretations of the erotic carvings. They portray that, for seeing the deity, one must leave his or her sexual desires outside the temple. They also show that divinity, such as the deities of the temples, is pure like the atman, which is not affected by sexual desires and other characteristics of the physical body. It has been suggested that these suggest tantric sexual practices. Meanwhile, the external curvature and carvings of the temples depict humans, human bodies, and the changes that occur in human bodies, as well as facts of life. Some 10% of the carvings contain sexual themes; those reportedly do not show deities, they show sexual activities between people. The rest depict the everyday life of the common Indian of the time when the carvings were made, and of various activities of other beings. For example, those depictions show women putting on makeup, musicians, potters, farmers, and other folks. Those mundane scenes are all at some distance from the temple deities. A common misconception is that, since the old structures with carvings in Khajuraho are temples, the carvings depict sex between deities.
Between 950 and 1050, the Chandela monarchs built these temples when the Tantric tradition may have been accepted . Adherents of Tantrism teach that gratification of earthly desires is a step towards accomplishing Nirvana. In olden days, before the Mughal conquests, when boys lived in hermitages, following brahmacharitva until they became men, they could learn about the world and prepare themselves to become householders through examining these sculptures and the worldly desires they depicted.
Length: 286
Rating: 5.00 (5 ratings)
Tags: Khajuraho monuments खजुराहो Madhya Pradesh unesco erotic sculptures carvings India Khadzuraho Hindu Jain temples
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Incredible Khajuraho Erotic Temples of India
This is the first part of Khajuraho. One of the greatest Temple offerings of India. Well preserved 1000 year old erotic Temples of ancient times.
Length: 500
Rating: 4.60 (17 ratings)
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