baetylus – מילון אנגלי-עברי
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Baetylus
Baetylus (also
Bethel, or
Betyl, from
Semitic 'bet el' meaning 'house of God') is a word denoting a
sacred stone, which was supposedly endowed with life. According to ancient sources, these objects of worship were
meteorites, which were dedicated to the gods or revered as symbols of the gods themselves. An example is also mentioned at
Bethel in
Genesis 28:11-19.
Betylos
Betylos, Baetylus (Latin) [from Greek baitylos meteoric stone] Also betylus, baetyl, betyles. In Classical antiquity a stone, either natural or artificially shaped, venerated as of divine origin, or as a symbol of divinity. There were a number of these sacred stones in Greece, the most famous being the one on the omphalos at Delphi. Likewise there were the so-called animated or oracular stones. "Strabo, Pliny, Helancius [Hellanicus] -- all speak of the electrical, or electro-magnetic power of the betyli. They were worshipped in the remotest antiquity in Egypt and Samothrace, as magnetic stones, 'containing souls which had fallen from heaven'; and the priests of Cybele wore a small betylos on their bodies" (IU 1:332). In Persia they were called oitzoe; but their origin was of far greater antiquity, for "Lemuria, Atlantis and her giants, and the earliest races of the Fifth Root-Race had all a hand in these betyles, lithoi, and 'magic' stones in general" (SD 2:346n). See also Ophites ; Rocking-Stones
