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An imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor or a dynasty of emperors (or rulers of another title) are worshipped as demigods or deities...
The Roman imperial cult (Latin: cultus imperatorius) identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas)...
Asia (Roman province) (section Imperial cult)appeals to the Imperial authorities and the cultivation of prestigious cultural institutions such as festival games, religious cults, and oratory. The...- is frequently associated with a particular place. References to the imperial cult of ancient Rome, for example, use the word in this sense. A derived...
- Ceres (mythology) (section Cults and cult themes)(nourishing); in the early Imperial era she becomes an Imperial deity, and receives joint cult with Ops Augusta, Ceres' own mother in Imperial guise and a bountiful...
- for their redefinition of monarchs as "god-kings". Furthermore, the Imperial cult of ancient Rome identified emperors and some members of their families...
Roman Egypt (section Imperial cult)temples and privileges, and in turn the priests also served the Roman imperial cult of the deified emperors and their families. As Rome overtook the Ptolemaic...
Cybele (section Festivals and cults)Temple of Zeus. In the Roman period it was used for the Imperial cult. In the fourth century, further Metroa are attested at Smyrna and Colophon, where they...- Liber (section Temples and cult images)is found in some of the threefold, complementary deity-groupings of Imperial cult; a saviour figure, like Hercules and the Emperor himself. The reign...
Roman Empire (redirect from Imperial Roman)divinity (divus) by vote of the Senate. The Roman imperial cult, influenced by Hellenistic ruler cult, became one of the major ways Rome advertised its...- Bona Dea (section Festival and cult)sanctuaries were founded around this time, to propagate the new Imperial ideology. An imperial cult centre in Aquileia honours an Augusta Bona Dea Cereria, probably...
Isis (redirect from Cult of Isis)regarded her cult with suspicion. Women were more strongly represented in the Isis cult than in most Greco-Roman cults, and in imperial times, they could...- and was a critical and financial failure, although it has come to gain a cult following. The "Flawless Four" are the most popular girls in Reagan High...
Galactic Empire (Star Wars) (redirect from Imperial Navy (Star Wars))warlords and part of the Imperial remnants. Outside the formal chain of command, the Galactic Empire's reins are held by the Sith, a cult of Force-wielders -...- Donald R. The Return of the Imperial Presidency ? Wilson Quarterly. 26:2 (2002) pg. 37 Healy, Gene (2009) [2008]. The Cult of the Presidency: America's...
Chinese Empire (redirect from Imperial China)The Chinese Empire, also known as Imperial China, Empire of China, Celestial Empire, or simply China, was an imperial realm that spanned much of East,...
Aum Shinrikyo (redirect from Aum cult)literally 'Supreme Truth'), is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway...- self-proclaimed "kings" and "heirs". In such harsh conditions, while the imperial cult continued the sacrifices to the cosmological gods, common people estranged...
Thuggee (redirect from Thuggee cult)Murderous Cult. Granta Publications. p. 77. ISBN 9781847084736. Dash, Mike (3 February 2011). Thug: The True Story Of India's Murderous Cult. Granta Publications...
Temple of Isis and Serapis (section Cult statues)cult was officially reinstalled sometime between the reign of Caligula and 65 AD, and it continued to be practiced until the end of the late imperial...
- David1900Henry Austin Dobson WILKIE, Sir DAVID (1785–1841), painter, was born at Cults, on the banks of Eden Water, in the county of Fife, on 18 Nov. 1785. He
- on a Passion Cycle of 3 paintings, commissioned already in 1635 by the imperial court, as quoted in The Rembrandt Documents, Walter Strauss & Marjon van
- on some more Japanese history there are some good books here. For further reading there are some good articles on Wikipedia, which might just be worth