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*3: plural : an order of [[angels]] — [[Paper 39 - The Seraphic Hosts|celestial hierarchy]]

*3: plural : an order of [[angels]] — [[Paper 39 - The Seraphic Hosts|celestial hierarchy]]

==Description==

==Description==

A '''throne''' is the official chair or seat upon which a [[monarch]] is seated on [[state]] or [[ceremonial]] occasions. "Throne" in an [[abstract]] sense can also refer to the monarchy or the Crown itself, an instance of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy metonymy], and is also used in many terms such as "the [[power]] behind the throne".

A '''throne''' is the official chair or seat upon which a [[monarch]] is seated on [[state]] or [[ceremonial]] occasions. "Throne" in an [[abstract]] sense can also refer to the monarchy or the Crown itself, an instance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy metonymy], and is also used in many terms such as "the [[power]] behind the throne".

The depiction of [[monarchs]] and [[deities]] as seated on chairs is a common topos in the iconography of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East Ancient Near East].

The depiction of [[monarchs]] and [[deities]] as seated on chairs is a common topos in the iconography of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East Ancient Near East].

The word throne itself is from [[Greek]] θρόνος (thronos), "seat, chair", in origin a derivation from the PIE root *dher- "to [[support]]" (also in dharma "post, [[sacrificial]] pole"). Early Greek Διὸς θρόνους (Dios thronous) was a term for the "[[support]] of the [[heavens]]", i.e. the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_mundi axis mundi], which term when [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus Zeus] became an anthropomorphic god was imagined as the "seat of Zeus". The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaeans_(Homer) Achaeans] (according to Homer) were known to place additional, empty thrones in the royal palaces and [[temples]] so that the gods could be seated when they wished to be. The most [[famous]] of these thrones was the throne of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo Apollo] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyclae Amyclae].

The word throne itself is from [[Greek]] θρόνος (thronos), "seat, chair", in origin a derivation from the PIE root *dher- "to [[support]]" (also in dharma "post, [[sacrificial]] pole"). Early Greek Διὸς θρόνους (Dios thronous) was a term for the "[[support]] of the [[heavens]]", i.e. the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_mundi axis mundi], which term when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus Zeus] became an anthropomorphic god was imagined as the "seat of Zeus". The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaeans_(Homer) Achaeans] (according to Homer) were known to place additional, empty thrones in the royal palaces and [[temples]] so that the gods could be seated when they wished to be. The most [[famous]] of these thrones was the throne of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo Apollo] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyclae Amyclae].

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans] also had two types of thrones- one for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor Emperor] and one for the goddess [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_(mythology) Roma] whose statues were seated upon thrones, which became centers of [[worship]].

The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans] also had two types of thrones- one for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor Emperor] and one for the goddess [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_(mythology) Roma] whose statues were seated upon thrones, which became centers of [[worship]].

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