After discovering the third Cardinal at the " fire altar of science ", which was in fact the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Olivetti is killed by The Hassassin.
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There is a second, smaller and less well-preserved high relief frieze on the inner court walls which surround the actual fire altar on the upper level of the structure at the top of the stairs.
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Some scholars believe that the burnt bricks ( square, rectangular, and wedge-shaped ) from sub-period IB were not in fact used for building houses, but for the construction of Vedic fire altars.
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Since there was only a limited amount of space available in the upper, internal courtyard where the actual fire altar was located, the Telephus frieze was sculpted on slabs that was shallower than in the case of the Gigantomachy.
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Related concepts are the Agnihotra ritual, the invocation of the healing properties of fire; the Agnicayana ritual, which is the building of a fire altar to Agni; and Agnistoma, which is one of the seven Somayajnas.
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The official website of ASI reports : " Besides the above two principle parts of the metropolis there was also a third one-a moderate structure situated upwards of 80 m e . of the lower town containing four to five fire altars.
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In some cases, moon idols are a cult item of Early European Religions, resembling a pair of horns or crescent moons on a pedestal, and were variously interpreted as testifying to Bull worship, Moon worship, or as a holder for wooden logs to be used in a fire altar.
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The earth-altar may correspond to a Linear B mention of an " open-fire altar "; Linear B ( 14th-13th centuries BCE ) inscriptions also give the first mentions of offerings to Zeus and of the sacred precinct ( temenos ) near the altar, such as has been excavated at Lykaion.
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"The Astronomical Code of the Rigveda " ( New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan, 1994; revised and enlarged edition, New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal, 2000 ) claims regularities in the organization of the Rigveda, connecting the structure to certain numbers in the astronomy-based ritual of the five-layered " vedi " ( Vedic fire altar ).
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Following the rise of the Sassanid dynasty, the shrines to the Yazatas continued to exist, with the statues by law either being abandoned as empty sanctuaries, or being replaced by fire altars ( so also the popular shrines to Meher / Mithra which retained the name " Darb-e Mehr " Mithra's Gate that is today one of the Zoroastrian technical terms for a fire temple ).
