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10—Worship will involve prayer and special movements—gestures of adoration—and these may be reflected in the art or iconography of decorations or images. , dance, music, drugs, and the infliction of pain). 12—The sacrifice of animals or humans may be practiced. , the Christian Chi-Rho symbol). 8—The ritualistic symbols will often relate iconographically to the deities worshiped and to their associated myth. Animal symbolism (of real or mythical animals) may often be used, with particular animals relating to specific deities or powers.

At the same time that this dividing wall was rebuilt, the foundation walls in the southern half of the platform’s interior (8234 and 8232) were covered over, but the northern walls (8107, 8213, 8217, 8205) were rebuilt. This selective rebuilding suggests that the southern half of the podium perhaps was used as an open courtyard. e. 12 It lay well below even the surviving courses of the ashlar wall and was possibly a basement floor. This meager floor tells us very little about the occupation of the podium but still deserves mention since it was problematic: the first because he seems to be referring to the podium, which has never been identified as an altar; and the second, because Biran in almost every instance used the term liškâ to describe the northernmost room in T-West, not the entire series of rooms.

And Dan, Why Did He Remain in Ships’ (Judges, V, 17),” AJBA 1 (1968): 9–23; cf. M. Astour, Hellenosemitica: An Ethnic and Cultural Study in the West Semitic Impact of Mycenaean Greece (Leiden: Brill, 1965), 45–53. In his dissertation on the Iron Age I period at Tel Dan, D. D. , Tel Aviv University, 1999], 1:134–35, 147–49; cf. 93–96). 13. Josephus (Ant. 177) and Jerome (Qu. heb. Gen. 14:14) both contend that Yor (< Heb. yĕʾōr, “brook”) and Dan are the two sources of “Jordan”—the river and the name.