Baalbek, Lebanon. Archaeological site of the ancient city. Temple of Jupiter or Baal Jupiter Heliopolitanus. Detail of an exedra in the great courtyard of the temple of Jupiter. It was in the multiple exedras of the great courtyard that pilgrims could wait for the ceremonies in which the priests of the cult carried a statue of Heliopotan Jupiter on a stretcher carried on their shoulders. According to Macrobius (Saturnalia I, XXIII): "The simulacrum of the god of Heliopolis is carried on a stretcher, in the same way as those of the other gods are carried in the pomp of the circus games. The most distinguished people in the province, their heads shaved and purified by long continence, carried him on their shoulders. Stirred by the divine spirit, they do not carry the simulacrum according to their own thoughts, but where they are urged by the god: as we see at Antium the statues of Fortune move to give their answers. Those who are absent also consult the god by means of sealed writings, to which he responds according to the order of the requests recorded therein."

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Baalbek, Lebanon. Archaeological site of the ancient city. Temple of Jupiter or Baal - Jupiter Heliopolitanus. Detail of an exedra in the great courtyard of the temple of Jupiter. It was in the multiple exedras of the great courtyard that pilgrims could wait for the ceremonies in which the priests of the cult carried a statue of Heliopotan Jupiter on a stretcher carried on their shoulders. According to Macrobius (Saturnalia I, XXIII): "The simulacrum of the god of Heliopolis is carried on a stretcher, in the same way as those of the other gods are carried in the pomp of the circus games. The most distinguished people in the province, their heads shaved and purified by long continence, carried him on their shoulders. Stirred by the divine spirit, they do not carry the simulacrum according to their own thoughts, but where they are urged by the god: as we see at Antium the statues of Fortune move to give their answers. Those who are absent also consult the god by means of sealed writings, to which he responds according to the order of the requests recorded therein."

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