Complete Clue List
Across
1. Adherent to the teaching of Siddhartha; large towers called stupas
5. Most temples preach this attitude of compassion
9. A Maori assembly; Chinese Muslim peoples
10. Monstrous and fierce, huge (archaic)
11. Radiant light drawn around the head of a saint; a rain cloud
13. A whetstone used to sharpen; to make perfect
14. Dried seaweed used in making sushi
15. The Temple of Artemis was built by this King, of Lydia, 550 bce
16. Colorful rock used to decorate temples and holy fabrics
19. Many ancient temples were built by this type of laborer
23. Personification of the sun
25. Common motif of radiating leaves, symbolizes divinity
27. Temples are watched or managed
29. India's sacred animal sound
30. Who, ME? Or French "me"
31. Golden false god destroyed by Moses (4,4)
32. To leave a gift at a holy place
33. Jesus called one temple a "___ of thieves"
34. Ukraine city of St. Panteleion monastery (Ukraine spelling)
36. Eternal blaze
39. Laborious, strenuous
41. Conception, thought or opinion
43. These "Star Wars" warriors had a temple built at the sacred spire
44. Genie supernatural beings who protect mosques
45. Specific religious practice or ceremony
46. Printing units of 1/6 inch
47. Stepped levels or slopes in Ziggurat temples
48. Holy spaces; or rather slender
Down
1. In Pushkar, India's oldest temple; in Hindu pantheon the Creator
2. Islamic shrine on Temple Mount "___ of the Rock"
3. Son of Abraham offered as a sacrifice to God
4. Egypt's mansion of gods (3,5,2,7)
5. Temple for the Ark of the Covenant (4,8,5)
6. Identifying nomenclatures
7. Properly refers to a person, place or thing
8. Place of religious devotion or pilgrimage
10. Peru empire; Quechuan people
12. Many temples pressed this elixir for libation rituals; so did a "Brave New World"
17. Stairways, secret passages and entries are protected; defended.
18. Places for spiritual rituals or worship
20. Used in a rite of purification; originally all Romans were purified every 5 years
21. Asian country where the Cao Dai Temple offers daily worship to all
22. In Hinduism the soul; supreme universal self
24. To exalt as a God
26. To take away
28. In architecture, upright exterior visage (acronym)
34. The shrine building plans may adjust to point a particular direction
35. In Tell Brak, Syria a temple is decorated with visual organs
37. Adam and Eve's son killed by Cain
38. Hebrew prophet ascended in a chariot of fire
39. Simple garment worn by ancients; a white linen one for High Priests
40. The study of a body of literature
42. A door slightly open
43. Adherent to a religion of India seeking liberation of the soul