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and the temple was turned into a syncretistic Jewish pagan grove
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In traditional Greek religion and other religions
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having a grove of trees is sort of considered the sacred area.
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Like when you walk through a forest now
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and you come upon a nice open kind of grove of trees,
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and all of sudden you just kind of feel like some nymph or
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something is going to jump out at you,
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and God is there,
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so the Greeks liked these sorts of groves of trees,
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so this is often what they would use as a sacred area.
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They did this to the temple,
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and it was renamed as a shrine to Zeus Olympus.