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A central ritual of Ásatrú is the sumbel, a drinking-ritual in which a drinking horn full of mead or ale is passed around and a series of toasts are made, usually to gods, ancestors, and / or heroes of the religion.
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Most traditional Wiccans worship the god and goddess, and a central part of Wiccan liturgy involves the Great Rite ; an act of actual or symbolic ritual sexual intercourse between the two deities.
In Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah,, the Supreme Court ruled Hialeah had passed an ordinance banning ritual slaughter, a practice central to the Santería religion, while providing exceptions for some practices such as the kosher slaughter.
Isis had a central role in Egyptian magic spells and ritual, especially those of protection and healing.
To that end, questions and answers are a central device in the Seder ritual.
The central ritual at cenotaphs throughout the Commonwealth is a stylized night vigil.
Both films focus on the nightmare as it is expressed in the elusive doubling of characters and in the incorporation of the “ psychogenic fugue ,” the evacuation and replacement of identities, something that was also central to the voodoo ritual.
Helen P. Foley wrote of the links between the importance of Dionysus as the central character and his effect on the play's structure, she writes: " the poet uses the ritual crisis to explore simultaneously god, man, society, and his own tragic art.
When Shingon's founder, Kukai, returned from his training in China, he brought back two mandalas that became central to Shingon ritual: the Mandala of the Womb Realm and the Mandala of the Diamond Realm.
Their ritual obligations and religious integrity were central to the well being of the Roman state and all its citizens.
A central ritual of American Ásatrú is the sumbel, a drinking-ritual in which a drinking horn full of mead or ale is passed around and a series of toasts are made, usually to gods, ancestors, and / or heroes of the religion.
These mosques were distinguished by their central location, large dimensions, monumental architecture, symbolic furnishings indicative of its exalted stature, and, the most demonstrative of all, the minbar ( ritual pulpit ).
The Holy Child of La Guardia () ( died 1491 ) was the purported victim of a ritual murder by the Jews in the town of La Guardia in the central Spanish province of Toledo ( Castile – La Mancha ).
The slaughter of a fattened ox was also a central part of an offering ritual.
From the Bronze Age Near East, enthronement and anointment of a monarch is a central religious ritual, reflected in the titles Messiah or Christ which became separated from worldly kingship.
The central deity invoked in this ritual is usually Acala ( Fudō Myōō 不動明王 ).
The hamam combines the functionality and the structural elements of its predecessors in Anatolia, the Roman thermae and baths, with the central Asian Turkish tradition of steam bathing, ritual cleansing and respect of water.
* A large group of Ukrainian ritual melodies fall within a perfect fourth with the main central tone as the lowest note.
The central aim of the school is elucidation of the nature of dharma, understood as a set ritual obligations and prerogatives to be performed properly.
The Black Stone plays an important role in the central ritual of the Hajj, when pilgrims must walk seven times around the Kaaba in an counterclockwise direction.
The central panels depict the gods responding or performing a ritual of their own.
The north central panel represents the continuation of the ritual in the afterlife, and shows how the events of the game connect the society of El Tajin to the gods.
The central open pavement provided commercial access as well as ritual space.
It is unveiled only during the central part of the main Nasrani ritual.
Ritual ( puja ) continues to play a central role in contemporary Hinduism, but the enormous complexity of ancient ritual ( yajna ) only survives in a tiny minority of Shrauta practitioners.
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Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??
The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.
Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.
An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.
It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.
The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.
There is a trend to packaging meat at a central source, freezing it, and shipping it to outlying stores, where meat cutters will not be required.
The girls are kept booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central abdomen.
One matter of concern to the complete effectiveness of pool operations is the lack of adequate central garage facilities.
You can install it yourself -- this is a central system that will cool every part of your house.
Best of all, central air conditioning is something you can afford.
No matter what style your home is, ranch, two-story, Colonial or contemporary, central air conditioning is easily installed.
Its oil for heating is metered monthly to each home from a line that starts at a central storage point.
The idea of a central tank with lines to each house is not in itself a novelty.
On this first venture the central storage is 20,000 gallons, in two tanks, or an average of 400 gallons for each of the 50 homes.
The central storage is near a main artery quite easy to reach with large transports on a short crescent swing, with fewer trucks in the residential streets.
The measured brightness temperature is a good approximation to the brightness temperature at the center of the lunar disk because of the narrow antenna beam and because the temperature distribution over the central portion of the moon's disk is nearly uniform.
Furthermore, conditioned reactions are fundamentally altered when the hypothalamic sympathetic reactivity is augmented beyond a critical level, and several types of behavioral changes probably related to the degree of central autonomic `` tuning '' are observed.
It has further been shown that: ( 1 ) an experimental neurosis in its initial stages is associated with a reversible shift in the central autonomic balance ; ;
And in the economy of the book it is not peripheral but central.
This movement of industry away from the central cities is not so catastrophically new as some prophets seem to believe.
Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.
Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.
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