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In addition to the twelve main gods and the innumerable lesser deities, ancient Greeks worshiped a deity they called Agnostos Theos, that is: the Unknown god. In Athens, there was a temple specifically dedicated to that god and very often Athenians would swear "in the name of the Unknown god"(Νή τόν Άγνωστον). Apollodorus, Philostratus and Pausanias wrote about the Unknown god as well. The Unknown god was not so much a specific deity, but a placeholder, for whatever god or gods actually existed but whose name and nature were not revealed to the Athenians or the Hellenized world at large.

Areopagus

Unknown God'. The term "Areopagus" also refers to the judicial body of aristocratic origin, the power of... by the Gods for the murder of Poseidon's son Alirrothios: a typical example of an aetiological myth... Ares (Latin Mars), the Greek god of war, or from the Erinyes (Furies). On its foot was erected a...

South Shields

as a Syrian gravestone and a altar piece to an previously unknown god. It is on the Tyne and Wear...

Altar

Athens one bearing the inscription, "To the unknown God" (Acts 17:23), or rather "to an [i.e., some] unknown God." The reason for this inscription cannot now be accurately determined. It afforded the...

Thomas Henry Huxley and agnosticism

from St Paul's mention of the altar to the Unknown God." Hutton here gives a variant etymology for the word, which may be therefore taken as partly derived from fi-yvowTos (the "unknown" God), and... by describing it as "belief in an unknown and unknowable God"; but agnosticism as defined by Huxley...

Serapis

iconic statue from Sinope, having been bidden by the unknown god in a dream to bring him to...Serapis was a Hellenistic-Egyptian god, made the patron of Alexandria. The statue of Serapis in the... Soter fixed the iconic type to serve for the god of the new capital of Egypt, where it was soon...

Angel

creatures"), ofanim ("wheels"), and arelim (the meaning of which term is unknown). God is described... angel is a spiritual being which assists and serves God or the gods in many religious traditions... of God's name, as "angel of the Lord," or "angel of God" (Zech. xii. 8). Other appellations are "Sons...

Paul of Tarsus

talking in the name of the Unknown God who was already worshiped there (17:16-34), then travelled to... frequently claimed that his authority as an apostle came directly from God (Gal. 1:13-16). His conversion... to Greeks about a divinity in their pantheon called "The Unknown Deity", it can be understood that he...

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