When the Queen rose from her underground shrine, she left me buried in ice and indifference.

It led up the steep hillside to the swell of stony turf that hid the ancient, underground shrine of Mithras.

In ancient times caves were used for burial purposes in eastern Mediterranean, in conjunction with underground shrines or temples.

The other was at the southeastern turning-post; where there was an underground shrine to Consus, a minor god of grain-stores, connected to the grain-goddess Ceres and to the underworld.

A messenger recites the history of the Mongol princess who leads the group; a shaman chants and dances around a fire; the earth magically swells and cracks open above an underground shrine.

A pungent whiff of the same smoke he had smelled in the underground shrine drifted aft.

I took him down to the underground shrine.

This remarkable underground shrine is interpreted as a symbolic abzu the abode of Enki, the god of wisdom and of all freshwater.

There, they find an underground shrine.

The main attraction is an underground shrine, considered a masterpiece of architectural design.