Community Atlas - Artemisia - Stromphe Dockside District - Temple of Poseidon
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Here is the beginning of my next project - a generic Stromphe Temple, this one being that of the Temple of Poseidon on the Dockside. It will be a mixture of classical Greek and the Temple of Jerusalem as far as the internal arrangements are concerned, with an outside altar, an internal statue and temple treasury, and a 'Holy of Holies' behind the statue.
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What's that grid thing behind the priest?
Quenten, that's the temple to the side of the Harbor Master's Office?
The grid thing is for the interior - walls not really done properly yet, just a line outlining where they will go.
Gory? What on earth makes you think sacrificing a bull on an altar would be gory?
Messy!!!
I don't think you can argue with that analysis :P
"Worship of Poseidon
Poseidon holding a trident. Corinthian plaque, 550-525 BC. From Penteskouphia.
Poseidon was a major civic god of several cities: in Athens, he was second only to Athena in importance, while in Corinth and many cities of Magna Graecia he was the chief god of the polis.[2]
In his benign aspect, Poseidon was seen as creating new islands and offering calm seas. When offended or ignored, he supposedly struck the ground with his trident and caused chaotic springs, earthquakes, drownings and shipwrecks. Sailors prayed to Poseidon for a safe voyage,
sometimes drowning horses as a sacrifice;
[citation needed] in this way, according to a fragmentary papyrus, Alexander the Great paused at the Syrian seashore before the climactic battle of Issus, and resorted to prayers, "invoking Poseidon the sea-god, for whom he ordered a four-horse chariot to be cast into the waves."[31]
According to Pausanias, Poseidon was one of the caretakers of the oracle at Delphi before Olympian Apollo took it over. Apollo and Poseidon worked closely in many realms: in colonization, for example, Delphic Apollo provided the authorization to go out and settle, while Poseidon watched over the colonists on their way, and provided the lustral water for the foundation-sacrifice. Xenophon's Anabasis describes a group of Spartan soldiers in 400–399 BC singing to Poseidon a paean—a kind of hymn normally sung for Apollo.
Like Dionysus, who inflamed the maenads, Poseidon also caused certain forms of mental disturbance. A Hippocratic text of ca 400 BC, On the Sacred Disease[32] says that he was blamed for certain types of epilepsy. "
Perhaps you could replace bull and blood with pool and horse? (makes it less messy and more soggy, just for Sue!!)
And this is the description:
This is typical of the temples in Stromphe (and indeed of all the Irisian City States, and even in Themisia to some extent) except for the great Basilica on the Acropolis.
It consists of a 3 step pedestal, with columns surrounding the Temple atop the pedestal, along with a large outdoor altar where all sacrifices are made.
The inside of the temple is divided into an Outer Agia (Sanctum, Holy place) and smaller Inner Agia. The Outer Agia contains the main statue of the God, and more smaller statues and treasures along right and left hand walls. As well there is often the bones of last year’s New Year (or other Holy Day) sacrifice – in the case of Poseidon, a bull, and symbols of the God on either side of the Statue – here, 2 fonts of seawater, where devotees can wash their hands and face. This is the only area of the temple which is open to the public.
The Inner Agia is reserved for priests and on occasion, acolytes. This contains a small altar from which devotions are conducted, and a statue of the God’s sacred animal – here a golden bull. In addition, the most precious of the temple’s treasures are placed here, strongly protected against theft by magic, of course.
(Since its a building and not a long corridor, its probably called something else, but I can't think of it right now)