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Hero Cults Ordinarily, the hero cult was based on the presence of the sôma 'body' (corpse) of the hero in the "mother earth" of the given locale. The sôma of the dead hero was considered to be a talisman of fertility and prosperity to the community that worshipped the hero. At the moment of worship, the sacred precinct of the cult hero could become notionally identical to the paradise-like abode of immortalization from which he or she returns to his worshippers. athome.harvard.edu /programs/nagy/threads/concept/hero_cults.html   (1718 words)

Hero Cults Ordinarily, the hero cult was based on the presence of the sôma 'body' (corpse) of the hero in the "mother earth" of the given locale. The sôma of the dead hero was considered to be a talisman of fertility and prosperity to the community that worshipped the hero. At the moment of worship, the sacred precinct of the cult hero could become notionally identical to the paradise-like abode of immortalization from which he or she returns to his worshippers. www.uh.edu /~cldue/3307/herocults.html   (1631 words)

Greek hero cult They were distinct on the other hand from the Roman cult of dead emperors, because the hero was not thought of as having ascended to Olympus or become a god: he was beneath the earth, and his power purely local. For this reason hero cults were chthonic in nature, and their rituals more closely resembled those for Hecate and Persephone than those for Zeus and Apollo. Hero cults could be of the utmost political importance. www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/GreekHeroCult.html   (578 words)

hero – FREE hero Information | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information! The heroes might be actual great men and women, real or imaginary ancestors, or "faded" gods and goddesses (i.e., ancient gods who for some reason were demoted to human status). Hero's Afterlife: Hero and Leander and 'lewd unmannerly verse' in the late Seventeenth Century. Hero's Afterlife: Hero and Leander and lewd unmannerly verse' in the late Seventeenth... www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-hero.html   (1332 words)

Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki For example, the circumstances of the hero's conception are unusual; an attempt is made by a powerful male at his birth to kill him; he is spirited away; reared by foster-parents in a far country. Routinely the hero meets a mysterious death, often at the top of a hill; his body is not buried; he leaves no successors; he has one or more holy sepulchres. In modern movies, the hero is often simply an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances, who, despite the odds being stacked against him or her, typically prevails in the end. www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=Hero   (1670 words)

Hero - The Mind-N-Magick Paganpedia The hero commonly possesses superhuman capabilities or idealized character traits which enable him or her to perform extraordinary, beneficial deeds (i.e., a "heroic deed") for which he or she is famous (compare villain). They were distinct on the other hand from the Roman cult of dead emperors, because the hero was not thought of as having ascended to Olympus or become a god: he was beneath the earth, and his power purely local. For this reason hero cults were chthonic in nature, and their rituals more closely resembled those for Hecate and Persephone than those for Zeus and Apollo. mind-n-magick.com /wiki/index.php?title=Hero   (1309 words)

Hero - encyclopedia article - Citizendium For example, the circumstances of the hero's conception are unusual; an attempt is made by a powerful male at his birth to kill him; he is spirited away; reared by foster-parents in a far country. Routinely the hero meets a mysterious death, often at the top of a hill; his body is not buried; he leaves no successors; he has one or more holy sepulchres. In modern movies, the hero is often simply an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances, who, despite the odds being stacked against him or her, typically prevails in the end. en.citizendium.org /wiki/Hero   (1652 words)

hero, in Greek religion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07 Hero cults were distinctly different from the attendance to the dead, which was meant only to afford comfort in the afterlife. In hero worship, as in the worship of all infernal powers, rituals were performed at night, fl animals were sacrificed, and blood and other liquid offerings were poured beside the hero’s tomb. The worship centered in general on the supposed place of the hero’s tomb; the cult of some heroes, notably Hercules, was, however, widespread. www.bartleby.com /65/he/hero.html   (207 words)

Barbara MCCAULEY The idea that ancient Greek hero cult was closely tied to public and private territorial claims during the period of the rise of the polis has been discussed in a number of studies in the last twenty-five years. Due to the nature of hero cult itself and to Greek polis religion, hero cults were well suited to represent claims to territory and serve as symbols of group identity. Because the cult of a hero was localized, usually to the area around his grave, he came to be seen as the protector of that particular area. www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/MCCAULEY.html   (535 words)

Deborah Lyons: GENDER AND IMMORTALITY -- CHAPTER ONE: Heroines and Heroes He considers heroes in their relation to a number of mythic and religious themes, both as figures in myth or epic taking part in a variety of relationships--social, familial, and religious--and as the focal points for cults embodying many of the diverse aspects of Greek ritual practice. In considering the relation of a particular hero to healing, to choose one example, he discusses in turn the hero as a healer in myth, and the role of healing in the cult of that hero. Such heroes would normally have no individual cult, but were nevertheless conceived as belonging to a generation that still enjoyed the protection of the gods and shared, to a varying extent, their supernatural capabilities, in favoured cases their very blood." Kirk (1970) 176. www.pupress.princeton.edu /books/lyons/chapter_1.html   (11747 words)

Heroic Burial In addition, in death heroes were believed to possess the supernatural power to bring disaster upon mortals in the form of plague, barrenness, and military defeat (Antonaccio, 1995). The term "tomb cult" originally was used to describe occasional familial visits to tombs after burial in order to make offerings in the form of food or garlands during the classical age (Antonaccio, 1998). Durkheim defines cult as: "a system of divers rites, festivals and ceremonies which all have this characteristic, that they reappear periodically (Durkheim, 1912)." The tomb cult does not "reappear periodically" instead the ritual and rites that do take place happen in a short period of time then tapper off. faculty.vassar.edu /jolott/old_courses/crosscurrents2001/Lefkandi/heroic.htm   (1270 words)

Deborah Lyons: GENDER AND IMMORTALITY -- CHAPTER ONE: Heroines and Heroes He considers heroes in their relation to a number of mythic and religious themes, both as figures in myth or epic taking part in a variety of relationships--social, familial, and religious--and as the focal points for cults embodying many of the diverse aspects of Greek ritual practice. In considering the relation of a particular hero to healing, to choose one example, he discusses in turn the hero as a healer in myth, and the role of healing in the cult of that hero. Such heroes would normally have no individual cult, but were nevertheless conceived as belonging to a generation that still enjoyed the protection of the gods and shared, to a varying extent, their supernatural capabilities, in favoured cases their very blood." Kirk (1970) 176. press.princeton.edu /books/lyons/chapter_1.html   (11747 words)

Notes on the Afterlife This is why heroes of Iliad such as Hector, attach so much importance to such substitutes for immortality as the assurance of the succession of their house through their children and the acquisition of such glory as will perpetuate their name in the memory of man. The sacrificial animal was killed with the throat turned upwards to the sky in the first case, downwards to the earth for the second; for the Olympians victim was white, for the underworld, fl; altars to the former were lofty, those of the latter low or replaced by a trench in the gorund. Hero cults, Greek form of ancestor worship, flourished in archaic age. www.albany.edu /faculty/lr618/ndead.html   (1672 words)

Hero.eu Stories of heroism may serve as moral examples, impressing a culture's ethical code, especially for the young. Later emperor employed hero worship for their own apotheosis, that is, cult of personality. The larger-than-life hero is a more common feature of fantasy (particularly sword and sorcery and epic fantasy) than more realist works. www.hero.eu   (1768 words)

Classical Backpacking in Greece - Peloponnese - Agamemnoneion In later periods Pausanias claimed that Agamemnon was buried inside the fortifications, but that statement is most likely the result of the “creation” of a later tomb (i.e., reuse of another tomb) for the laudable purpose of satisfying the desire of western tourists for instruction in the history and monuments of Greece. L.R. Farnell wrote, way back in 1921, that “we so often hear how saga reflects cult that we are in danger of ignoring the reverse truth that cult may reflect saga.” He contended at that early date that the cults of epic heroes springing up ca. Coldstream, J.N. "Hero Cults in the Age of Homer." JHS 96: 8-17. web.missouri.edu /~daw262/agamemnon.html   (523 words)

Melikertes-Palaimon, Hero of the Isthmian Games During that time cult activities may well have been continued by residents of the area, but without deposits that can be dated to the interval it is impossible to form any picture of their nature and scope. The lack of archaeological evidence for a hero cult to Melikertes-Palaimon at Isthmia has led some scholars to conclude that such a cult did not exist for the Greek period but was a Roman invention. In this case, the rites for the hero were the same as those to a god, consisting in a procession, sacrifice of sheep, and athletic competitions. humanities.uchicago.edu /orgs/isthmia/publications/hero/hero.html   (2704 words)

Ken Wilber: On Heroes and Cults To acknowledge a real Hero seems to deny our own worth, and so we are terribly suspicious and sometimes downright antagonistic towards any who might rise up, in these democratic and egalitarian times, as a real Hero. We in the West have a long list of cults and their Heroes that we generally think are harmful: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and, closer to home, many of the new "cultic religions" that enslave rather than enlighten. And he was doing this years before the present-day national hysteria about "cults" and "hero frauds." And he has spoken out not just against the cults of so-cailed spiritual masters, but against cultic allegiance in any ultimate form: scientific, political, religious. www.adidawilber.com /on_heroes_and_cults/index.html   (2927 words)

Unit 1 This word, with its two primary metaphors of (1) the straight line and (2) the thriving cultivation, is basic to the concept of the cult hero. This epic image of the just king as an exponent of dikê, standing in his blooming garden, corresponds to the religious image of the hero in hero-cult, "planted" in the local "mother earth" as a talisman of fertility and prosperity for the community that worships him or her. In the Homeric tradition, references to hero cults tend to be implicit, not explicit. www.fas.harvard.edu /~chs/HCJ/unit1.html   (4009 words)

Reflections on Cult Worship in the Empire Cult worship is regarded as a private and practical matter, and public pronouncements by religious figures are not welcomed. The Imperial cult of Tiber Septim is just such a hero-cult, and among the military, provincial colonists, and recently assimilated foreigners, the cult is particularly strong and personal. Heartlanders do not consider cult affairs as serious matters, where the Dunmer consider cult affairs, and in particular, ancestral spirit veneration, to be very serious matters indeed. til.gamingsource.net /mwbooks/reflectionsoncult.shtml   (368 words)

Cults of the Western Reaches Hero Cults, Spirit Cults, Local Cults, and Mystery Cults as dictated by the House's individual history and needs. It would be hard to be prescriptive when describing the religious practices of a secretive, justifiably paranoid, inbred and fragmented noble class, which combines theistic fervor with a pragmatic and manipulative "sorcerous" approach to otherworldly powers, and has survived through the centuries by flexibly adapting to each change in ruling dogma. Worshipers: Fjordaur is worshipped by a small cult of assassins and ritual murderers, who slay people to appease their god and his mistress. kpmcdona.home.mindspring.com /carmania/religion   (2160 words)

Classical Backpacking in Greece - Peloponnese - Agamemnoneion In later periods Pausanias claimed that Agamemnon was buried inside the fortifications, but that statement is most likely the result of the “creation” of a later tomb (i.e., reuse of another tomb) for the laudable purpose of satisfying the desire of western tourists for instruction in the history and monuments of Greece. L.R. Farnell wrote, way back in 1921, that “we so often hear how saga reflects cult that we are in danger of ignoring the reverse truth that cult may reflect saga.” He contended at that early date that the cults of epic heroes springing up ca. Coldstream, J.N. "Hero Cults in the Age of Homer." JHS 96: 8-17. www.geocities.com /classicalbackpacking/agamemnon.html   (523 words)

zzsubcults.html   (Site not responding. Last check: ) At the same time, it means that the addition of subcults would make him tremendously powerful -- most of the two affinity cults in Hero Wars are really a 2+1 format, with a number of subcults that add to the god's power. Hero cults, of course, are created when an exceptional hero of Zorak Zoran discovers or creates a new power, and teaches this to other Zorak Zorani (who worship him in turn). Only if a hero is forgotten or his worship ceases would a "new" connection need to be created. www.wam.umd.edu /~gerakkag/zzsubcults.html   (515 words)

Table of Contents and Excerpt, Brunk and Fallaw, Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America The use of such departed heroes helps simplify nations, which is necessary because national communities are, in reality, far too large and complex to be easily understood and envisioned; one cannot, for instance, know everyone by sight in a nation as one might in a small town. And it is also possible for heroic figures to embody concepts of identity and nationality that are apart from, and in opposition to, the images crafted by internationally recognized nations. At a minimum, for heroes and nations to be heroes and nations people have to accept them as such, and in so doing people also participate in the creation of nations and heroes, adapting them to their personal needs or those of the smaller communities in which they live. www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exbruher.html   (6436 words)

On Hero and Cults This does not mean that these Heroes the Einsteins and Darwins and Freuds and Nagarjunas have a higher status than you and I, because all people are equal in the eyes of Divine Mystery. Politics is cultic; religion is cultic; philosophy is cultic; even science is cultic and cults, in the broadest sense, simply represent groups of those who acknowledge and try to follow in the steps of the Heroes of a particular field of endeavor. But please notice: What makes these movements deplorable is not the fact that they are "cults" nor the fact that they have "heroes," but the fact that they are based on ideas or principles that reasonable men and women would eventually agree are erroneous or immoral or even heinous. www.beezone.com /Wilber/onherocults.html   (2770 words)

American Journal of Archaeology / Article Abstract This paper considers two current hypotheses: one links the development of hero cult in the eighth century B.C. with the circulation of Homeric poetry; the other views hero cult as a transformation of ancestral veneration in the context of the emergent polis. A review of the archaeological evidence for the Iron Age and Early Archaic period suggests that the earliest hero cult in the archaeological record emerged at Sparta during the eighth century. The small number of early hero cults, and their location and distribution, do not lend support to the theory of Homeric influence. www.ajaonline.org /archive/98.3/antonaccio_carla_m.html   (201 words)

The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization First and foremost, the ancient Greek hero was a religious figure, a dead person who received cult honors and was expected in return to bring prosperity, especially in the form of fertility of plants (crops) and animals, to the community. The hero is also a literary figure, of course, but here, too, we need caution so that we do not misapply our own cultural ideas and standards to the ancient Greek hero. The songs sung for heroes and the cult honors given to them in worship and festivals, including athletic festivals, celebrated in their honor, are an attempt to provide compensation for the death of the hero. athome.harvard.edu /programs/nagy/threads/concept_of_hero.html   (625 words)

Eastern Cults, Transcendental Meditation, Maitreya Hare Krishna is the most distinguishable cult of the Seventies thanks to the obligatory shaved head and pigtails of male members, chanting and singing and dancing in the big Western cities with saffron robes to the music of cymbals, drums and harmoniums... And their other "god Rama" never existed, he is only a hero of the "novel Ramayana"... "Aum Shinrikyo" is the cult responsible for the infamous subway gas attack in Tokyo, Japan, on March 1995. www.religion-cults.com /Cults/Eastern/E-CULTS.htm   (3216 words)

Parker3 Therefore, the important men of the city invent a "category" of special heroes who, if honored, will be "active for the collective good." This implies that the important men of the city are also men like the heroes. Cults are a way communities can claim symbolic possession to lands and territories. Heroes are specific to certain groups, and the cult of certain heroes give thegroup a sense of identity. www.uark.edu /campus-resources/dlevine/Parker3.html   (443 words)

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