Sunday, July 26, 2009

Altar to Mysterious Deity Found at Roman Fort

Discovery.com reports:
A massive altar dedicated to an eastern cult deity has emerged during excavations of a Roman fort in northern England
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Originally worshiped as a weather god on a hilltop close to the small town of Doliche (what is now the modern city of Duluk in southern Turkey) Juppiter of Doliche began attracting Roman worshipers by the early second century AD.

From then on, the cult of Dolichenus took off and spread all over the Roman empire.

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