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1. Altar: Un altar (del latín altare, de altus, "elevación") es una estructura consagrada al culto religioso, sobre el cual se hacen ofrendas o sacrificios.​ En algunas civilizaciones antiguas, para designar un altar de piedra, se utilizaba el término ara (plural, aras ... [100%] 2023-12-27
2. Altar: Biblical Data: In the book of Genesis it is often said that altars were erected. These altars were usually heaps of stones such as Laban and Jacob built to sacrifice upon (Gen., for they are said to be "built" () in ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
3. Altar: ALTAR ol'-ter (mizbeach, literally, "place of slaughter or sacrifice," from zabhach, which is found in both senses; bomos, (only in Acts 17:23), thusiasterion): _I. CLASSIFICATION OF HEBREW ALTARS_ Importance of the Distinction _II. LAY ALTARS_ 1. Pre-Mosaic ... [100%] 1915-01-01
4. Altar: Ein Altar (von spätlateinisch altar, zu lateinisch altaria „[Aufsatz auf dem] Opfertisch, Brandaltar“ von alta ara „hoher Altar“, „Feuer-Aufsatz“) ist eine Opferstätte oder ein Opfertisch als Verehrungsstätte für Gottheiten. Auf Altären können Opfergaben dargebracht werden. [100%] 2024-01-19
5. Altar Games: ALTAR Games, previously known as ALTAR Interactive, was a Czech video game developer founded in 1997 in Brno. The company was a member of IDEA Games, a marketing and commerce supporting association founded in 2005 with Bohemia Interactive and Black ... (Company) [70%] 2023-12-19 [Video game development companies]
6. Pagan Altar: Pagan Altar es un grupo inglés de doom metal, surgido en Londres en 1978. La banda se formó en Brockham (Lewisham), en la zona sur londinense, por Alan y Terry Jones, surgiendo en el marco de la escena NWOBHM. [70%] 2024-01-05
7. Cerro Altar: Cerro el Altar es la segunda montaña más alta visible desde Santiago de Chile después de Cerro El Plomo. Su altitud es de 5180 m s. [70%] 2023-11-19
8. Altar Ego: Altar Ego is the debut studio album by South African hip hop recording artist and record producer AKA. The album was released on August 23, 2011, through The Vth Season. [70%] 2023-12-07 [AKA (rapper) albums] [2011 debut albums]...
9. Altar stone: An altar stone is a piece of natural stone containing relics in a cavity and intended to serve as the essential part of an altar for the celebration of Mass in the Catholic Church. Consecration by a bishop of the ... (Religion) [70%] 2023-10-29 [Catholic liturgy]
10. Wildensteiner Altar: Der Wildensteiner Altar des Meisters von Meßkirch ist ein kleiner Hausaltar, der 1536 für Gottfried Werner von Zimmern und seine Ehefrau Apollonia von Henneberg geschaffen wurde. Benannt ist er nach der Burg Wildenstein, in der er aber wahrscheinlich nie dauerhaft ... [70%] 2023-09-06
11. Victory Altar: The Victory Altar (Korean SeungNiJeDan) is a new religious movement founded in South Korea in 1981. It teaches that Jesus Christ was a false messiah and that the real Christ is its founder, Cho Hee-Seung (1931–2004), “the Victor ... (Religion) [70%] 2022-09-12 [New religious movements]
12. Altar society: An altar society or altar guild is a group of laypersons in a parish church who maintain the ceremonial objects used in worship. Traditionally, membership was limited to women and their most common functions are making floral arrangements for the ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2021-12-21 [Catholic theology and doctrine]
13. Altar (Album): Veröffent-lichung(en) Aufnahme Format(e) Genre(s) Titel (Anzahl) Länge Altar ist ein Album der beiden Drone-Doom-Bands Sunn O))) und Boris. Die Lieder wurden von beiden Bands gemeinsam geschrieben und aufgenommen. (Album) [70%] 2024-01-19
14. Altar (Wicca): A Wiccan altar is a "raised structure or place used for worship or prayer", upon which a Wicca practitioner places several symbolic and functional items for the purpose of worshiping the God and Goddess, casting spells, and/or saying chants ... (Wicca) [70%] 2023-12-27 [Wiccan terminology]
15. Altar Mayor: Este artículo trata sobre el espacio o estructura consagrados al culto religioso. Para otros usos de este término, véase Altar (desambiguación). Altar en la Catedral de Lund, en Suecia. [70%] 2023-05-17
16. Altar society: An altar society or altar guild is a group of laypersons in a parish church who maintain the ceremonial objects used in worship. Traditionally, membership was limited to women and their most common functions are making floral arrangements for the ... (Religion) [70%] 2023-11-21 [Catholic theology and doctrine]
17. Altar Piccolomini: El Altar Piccolomini es un complejo arquitectónico y escultural en el pasillo izquierdo de la catedral de Siena, ordenado por el cardenal Francesco Piccolomini Todeschini. Fue construido entre 1481 y 1485 por Andrea Bregno en mármol de Carrara y decorado ... [70%] 2024-01-01
18. Altar server: An altar server is a lay assistant to a member of the clergy during a Christian liturgy. An altar server attends to supporting tasks at the altar such as fetching and carrying, ringing the altar bell, helping bring up the ... (Religion) [70%] 2023-12-03 [Catholic ecclesiastical titles] [Catholic liturgy]...
19. Barren Altar: Barren Altar ist eine 2013 gegründete Black-Doom-Band. Die in Santa Rosa gegründete Band Barren Altar veröffentlichte in ihren ersten Jahren EPs und Singles, bis im Juni 2018 das Debütalbum Entrenched in the Faults of the Earth erschien. [70%] 2024-01-19
20. El Altar: El Altar or Capac Urcu (possibly from Kichwa kapak principal, great, important / magnificence, urku mountain) is an extinct volcano on the western side of Sangay National Park in Ecuador, 170 km (110 mi) south of Quito, with a highest point ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-10-18 [Volcanic crater lakes] [Extinct volcanoes]...
21. Altar Q: Altar Q de Copán en Honduras Altar Q es la denominación dada a una de las más notables esculturas de piedra en forma de bloques rectangulares (apodados "altares") encontrados en el sitio arqueológico de Mesoamérica de Copán, en la actualidad ... [70%] 2023-05-17
22. Altar (Sonora): Altar Localidad La Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, en Altar. La villa es la cabecera municipal y la localidad más habitada del municipio de Altar. Según datos del Censo de Población y Vivienda realizado en 2020 por el Instituto ... [70%] 2023-05-17
23. Aachener Altar: Der Aachener Altar, auch Passionsaltar genannt, ist ein spätgotisches Passionstriptychon aus dem Aachener Domschatz, das vom sog. Meister des Aachener Altars um 1515/20 in Köln geschaffen wurde. [70%] 2024-01-19
24. Altar call: An altar call is a tradition in some Christian churches in which those who wish to make a new spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ are invited to come forward publicly. It is so named because the supplicants gather at the ... (Religion) [70%] 2023-12-07 [Christian terminology]
25. Altar candlestick: The altar candlesticks is used to hold the candles used in the Catholic liturgical celebration of Mass. These candlesticks consist of five principal parts: the foot, the stem, the knob, the bowl to catch drippings, and the pricket on which ... (Religion) [70%] 2023-11-10 [Catholic liturgy]
26. Altar (banda): Altar es una banda de death metal holandesa. La banda empezó en la década de 1990 con varios nombres como Anubis o Manticore, en el pueblo de Hardenberg. (Banda) [70%] 2024-04-13
27. Altar (Sternbild): Der Altar (lateinisch Ara) ist ein Sternbild des Südhimmels. Der Altar ist ein kleines einprägsames Sternbild, das südlich des Skorpions am Himmel steht. (Sternbild) [70%] 2024-09-12
28. Altar call: An altar call is a tradition in some Christian churches in which those who wish to make a new spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ are invited to come forward publicly. It is so named because the supplicants gather at the ... (Tradition in some Christian churches) [70%] 2024-07-16 [Evangelical ecclesiology] [Conversion to Christianity]...
29. Aachen Altar: The Aachen Altar (de: Aachener Altar) or Passion Altar (Passionsaltar) is a late gothic passion triptych in the Aachen Cathedral Treasury, made by the so-called Master of the Aachen Altar around 1515/20 in Cologne. The open, three winged ... (Triptych by the Master of the Achen Altar) [70%] 2024-10-15 [Aachen Cathedral Treasury] [Paintings of the Crucifixion of Jesus]...
30. Altar of Consus: The Altar of Consus (Latin: Ara Consi) was an ancient Roman altar dedicated to the gods Consus and Mars, as well as the lares, which were ancient Roman household guardians. It was located beneath the Circus Maximus. (Altar to the Roman god Consus) [57%] 2024-01-13 [Roman altars] [Mars (mythology)]...
31. altar: A surface used for sacrifices, usually elevated upon a pillar of stone(s). [100%] 2004-07-18
32. Home altar: A home altar or family altar is a shrine kept in the home of a Western Christian family used for Christian prayer and family worship. Home altars often contain a cross or crucifix, a copy of the Bible (especially a ... (A shrine kept in the home of some Christians) [70%] 2023-11-20 [Christian terminology] [Spiritual practice]...
33. Pulpit altar: A pulpit altar or pulpit-altar is an altar in a church that is built together with a pulpit that is designed as an extension above the altar, so the pulpit, altar, and altarpiece form one unit. This type of ... (Church element combining altar and pulpit) [70%] 2023-11-23 [Church architecture] [Altars]...
34. Vedi (altar): Vedi (Sanskrit: वेदी, romanized: Vedī, lit. 'altar') is the sacrificial altar in the Vedic religion. (Altar) [70%] 2023-08-23 [Vedas] [Hindu architecture]...
35. Prothesis (altar): The Prothesis is the place in the sanctuary in which the Liturgy of Preparation takes place in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches. Prothesis and diaconicon are collectively referred to as pastophoria. (Altar) [70%] 2023-08-23 [Eastern Christian liturgy] [Altars]...