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Grove
A stand of trees kept apart for meeting or worship. Celtic nemeton talk and ordinary sacred woods are local, not one grove-religion.
Hellenic religion
Grove appears in Hellenic religion.
Pausanias names sacred groves among the precincts of gods and heroes. A named grove seat in that periegesis, not forest as a wild landform and not a Celtic nemeton dump.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Roman religion
Grove appears in Roman religion.
Virgil’s Aeneid seats sacred groves among Italian and Trojan rite places — including the golden-bough wood and Latin sacred trees. A named grove in that epic, not forest as a mood-shelf id and not temple as the building.
from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)
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Vedic tradition
Grove appears in Vedic tradition.
The Ṛgveda knows wooded stands and tree-groups in rite and landscape speech beside the wider araṇya. A named Vedic grove in that corpus, not forest as the whole wild and not a temple-garden dump.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Diana is associated with Grove.
In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, the temple of Diana in her sacred grove is cited with columns added on the right and left at the flanks of the pronaos — Diana’s temple sits in that grove.
from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914
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sources
- Description of Greece · Pausanias
Pausanias, Description of Greece.
- Aeneid · Virgil
Virgil, Aeneid.
- The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)
Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.
- De Architectura · Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation)
Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Morris Hicky Morgan (1914).