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cultos oficiales

English translation: official cults

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Spanish term or phrase:cultos oficiales
English translation:official cults
Entered by: Charles Davis

10:15 May 28, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: cultos oficiales
Novedades políticas, pues el urbanismo emeritense cuenta con espacios forenses en los que se insertaban la curia o senado, basílicas y templos colosales dedicados a los cultos oficiales del Imperio.

This is about Merida, Spain. Thanks in advance.
Dave Pugh
Local time: 20:59
official cults
Explanation:
"Cults" is the right word here. You can say "religious cults", but it's a tautology really. They're not actually full-scale religions.



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Note added at 17 mins (2011-05-28 10:33:11 GMT)
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See Robert Turcan, The Cults of the Roman Empire
http://books.google.es/books?id=Q6sSsAR0ZO8C&pg=PA133&lpg=PA...

Geoffrey W. Bromiley, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. 116:
"Many of the unsophisticated sincerely followed the old established worship of the official cults or quietly continued to venerate the more personal divinities of hearth and home."
http://books.google.es/books?id=6OJvO2jMCr8C&pg=PA116&lpg=PA...

"Official cults were state funded as a "matter of public interest" (res publica). Non-official but lawful cults were funded by private individuals for the benefit of their own communities."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome

"By the end of the fourth century A.D., the official cults of Cybele, Isis, and Mithras, emblems of Roman paganism, were either completely suppressed or drastically altered"
Source: Eastern Religions in the Roman World | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/errw/hd_errw.htm
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Charles Davis
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Local time: 20:59
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4 +7official cults
Charles Davis
5official worship ceremonies
Liliana Galiano
3official cults
DLyons
3official religion(s) of the Mayan Empire
Marian Vieyra


  

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official cults


Explanation:
Official cults were state funded as a "matter of public interest" (res publica).


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome
DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 19:59
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
official cults


Explanation:
"Cults" is the right word here. You can say "religious cults", but it's a tautology really. They're not actually full-scale religions.



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Note added at 17 mins (2011-05-28 10:33:11 GMT)
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See Robert Turcan, The Cults of the Roman Empire
http://books.google.es/books?id=Q6sSsAR0ZO8C&pg=PA133&lpg=PA...

Geoffrey W. Bromiley, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. 116:
"Many of the unsophisticated sincerely followed the old established worship of the official cults or quietly continued to venerate the more personal divinities of hearth and home."
http://books.google.es/books?id=6OJvO2jMCr8C&pg=PA116&lpg=PA...

"Official cults were state funded as a "matter of public interest" (res publica). Non-official but lawful cults were funded by private individuals for the benefit of their own communities."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome

"By the end of the fourth century A.D., the official cults of Cybele, Isis, and Mithras, emblems of Roman paganism, were either completely suppressed or drastically altered"
Source: Eastern Religions in the Roman World | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/errw/hd_errw.htm

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 20:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 119
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agree  DLyons: I couldn't really disagree :-)
0 min
  -> Thanks, DLyons :)
agree  AllegroTrans
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Allegro
agree  franglish
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, franglish :)
agree  Remy Arce
2 hrs
  -> Gracias, Remy :)
agree  Isamar
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  -> Thanks, Isamar :)
agree  K Donnelly
8 hrs
  -> Thanks, K Donnelly :)
agree  Jenni Lukac (X)
1 day 6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Jenni :)
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
official worship ceremonies


Explanation:
Ancient Egyptian religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The most important of these ceremonies were those surrounding death (see "Funerary .... Eventually he eliminated the official worship of most other gods, ...
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charye-sang, table setting for ancestor worship ceremony | Flickr ...
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16 Mar 2010 ... KOREA.NET - Official page of... (836) · hotteok · galbijjim, Braised Short Ribs · charye-sang, table setting for ancestor worship ceremony ...
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Step by Step through A Druid Worship Ceremony - ADF Neopagan Druidism
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At this point in the ADF worship ceremony, it is the first sense that is ...... This is the version of the Outline for Druid Worship Ceremonies that I would ...
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Worship in Early Chosun*
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Liliana Galiano
Argentina
Local time: 15:59
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  DLyons: Isn't it specifically the Roman Empire here?
5 mins
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
official religion(s) of the Mayan Empire


Explanation:
As their 'cultos' were mainstream, I'd say the word religion is more appropriate in English.

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Note added at 36 mins (2011-05-28 10:52:04 GMT)
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Sorry, I should have said Roman Empire. Both cities (Spain and Mexico) are UNESCO world heritage sites.


    Reference: http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Mauritania-to-Nigeria/Maya.ht...
    Reference: http://www.religionfacts.com/mayan_religion/index.htm
Marian Vieyra
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  DLyons: Mérida, Spain not Mexico.
5 mins
  -> Oops, of course, it's the Roman Empire. Still sticking with religion, though.
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