According to the 2000 censuses, the number of ' Miao ' in China was estimated to be about 9. 6 million.

According to the 2000 census, the number of Miao in China was estimated to be about 9. 6 million.

According to Chinese legend, the Miao who descended from the Jiuli tribe led by Chiyou ( Chinese: 蚩尤 pinyin: Chīyóu ) were defeated at the Battle of Zhuolu ( Chinese: 涿鹿 pinyin: Zhuōlù, a defunct prefecture on the border of present provinces of Hebei and Liaoning ) by the military coalition of Huang Di ( Chinese: 黃帝 pinyin: Huángdì ) and Yan Di, leaders of the Huaxia ( Chinese: 華夏 pinyin: Huáxià ) tribe as the two tribes struggled for supremacy of the Yellow River valley.

According to André-Georges Haudricourt and David Strecker, the Miao were among the first people to settle in present day China.

According to Xiangtan University Professor Wu half the Miao population were affected by the war.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

According to legend, the cross was erected over the kistvaen ( burial chamber ) of Childe the Hunter, who was Ordulf, son of Ordgar, an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Devon in the 11th century.

According to the press release, " The centre will comprise a 10MW light-water reactor working on 20 %- enriched uranium-235, an activation analysis laboratory, a medical isotope production laboratory, silicon doping system, nuclear waste treatment and burial facilities ".

According to a letter published in the Rye and Battle Observer, Milligan's headstone was removed from St Thomas's churchyard following the burial of his wife Shelagh.

According to Jewish tradition ( adopted by Christianity ) the Torah was dictated to Moses by God, with the exception of the last eight verses of Deuteronomy which describe the death and burial of Moses.

According to Errol Flynn's memoirs, film director Raoul Walsh " borrowed " Barrymore's body before burial, and left his corpse propped in a chair for a drunken Flynn to discover when he returned home from The Cock and Bull Bar.

According to some other sources, Diomedes angrily tossed Penthesileia's body into the river, so neither side could give her decent burial.

According to state marker, the cemetery contains the burial plots of early settlers including Reverend Charles Webb, Moses Endicott, Edward McShane, Henry Talbert and Hugh Wilson.

According to historians, the Dolmens are burial sites.

According to dendrochronological studies of the wood in his burial chamber, Gorm died in the winter 958-959.

According to anthropologist Henry Otley Beyer, while many other accidental finds have been recorded from time to time and a few burial caves and sites had been casually explored by European or local scientists, no systematic work had been done anywhere else prior to these explorations.

According to Malalas, when the siege ended the corpse of Verina was recovered and sent to Ariadne for burial.

According to both Jewish and Muslim religious law, it is important to treat the dead respectfully, whether it be covering the bodies so that others cannot see them or collecting every last body part for burial, including blood.

According to this article in the Polish news site Nauka w Polsce ( Science & Scholarship in Poland ), Padiamonet's tomb contains a burial inscription which is dated to Year 27 of Piye.

According to Nakamatsu, a gusuku was in origin a place of " aerial burial.

According to Steinbeck's homage, Billings died in the Hotel del Monte in Monterey after which his body was delivered for burial preparation by the local constable to the town's only doctor, who also doubled as an amateur mortician.

According to Herodotus, Darius still did not believe Histiaeus was a traitor and gave his head an honourable burial.

According to today's more pastoral norms, a suicide victim is considered to be temporarily insane, and thus might be accorded Catholic burial.

According to this account, after the death of Muhammad the Ansar gathered at the Bani Sa ' ida's saqifah while the closest relatives of Muhammad, Fatimah and Ali and their relatives, were preparing Muhammad's body for burial.

According to Dagbon custom and tradition, upon the death of a Ya Naa all divisional chiefs must go to Yendi and offer their burial kits to the bereaved family.

According to this article, it is likely that the remains of canines are representative of meals, and were accidentally included in the burial while collecting the villagers ’ remains ( Willey and Emerson 1993 ).

According to the 1982 dissertation entitled Osteology of the Crow Creek Massacre by P. Willey, evidence of involvement in previous attacks is present in the skeletal remains of victims found in the mass burial.

According to recent archeological findings from H. heidelbergensis sites in Atapuerca the practice of intentional burial may have begun much earlier during the late Lower Paleolithic but this theory is widely questioned in the scientific community.

According to a 1995 law, the application of family law, including marriage, divorce, alimony, child custody, inheritance, and burial, is based on an individual's religion.

According to Eliade, Christianity retains a sense of cyclical time, through the ritual commemoration of Christ's life and the imitation of Christ's actions ; Eliade calls this sense of cyclical time a " mythical aspect " of Christianity.

According to a Sinhalese legend, Kandyan dances originated 250 years ago, from a magic ritual that broke the spell on a bewitched king.

According to The Alphabet of Manliness, the assigning of blame for farting is part of a ritual of behaviour.

According to Brothwell, it is one of the most complex examples of " overkill " in a bog body, and possibly has ritual meaning as it was " extravagant " for a straightforward murder.

According to the myth-ritual theory, the existence of myth is tied to ritual.

According to Smith, people begin performing rituals for some reason that is not related to myth ; later, after they have forgotten the original reason for a ritual, they try to account for the ritual by inventing a myth and claiming that the ritual commemorates the events described in that myth.

According to the writer Marianna Torgovnick, " The most fully documented instances of cannibalism as a social institution come from New Guinea, where head-hunting and ritual cannibalism survived, in certain isolated areas, into the fifties, sixties, and seventies, and still leave traces within certain social groups.

* Christopher Moore's novel, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, describes a Thuggee ritual.

According to Talmud tractate Yoma, in the absence of a Temple, Jews are obligated to study the High Priest ’ s ritual on Yom Kippur, and this study helps achieve atonement for those who are unable to benefit from its actual performance.

According to Roman mythology, when Romulus and Remus founded Rome, they did so on the Palatine Hill according to Etruscan ritual ; that is, they began with a pomerium or sacred ditch.

According to Oppenheim, the corpus of cuneiform literature amounted to around 1, 500 texts at any one time or place, approximately half of which, at least from the first millennium, is extant in fragmentary form, and the most common genres included ( in order of predominance ) are omen texts, lexical lists, ritual incantations, cathartic and apotropaic conjurations, historical and mythological epics, fables and proverbs.

According to Chinese sources, in the year 1948, 21 individuals were murdered by state sacrificial priests from Lhasa as part of a ritual of enemy destruction, because their organs were required as magical ingredients.

According to Magdel le Roux, the Lembas have a ritual of sacrifice which they call the " Pesah ", which seems similar in many ways to the Jewish Pesach or Passover.

According to the Jesuit missionary Martin Dobrizhoffer, they practiced cannibalism at one point, perhaps as a funerary ritual, but later disposed of the dead in large jars placed inverted on the ground.

According to de Gebelin, " hierophant " was the title of the chief priest in the Eleusinian mysteries ( an ancient Greek ritual ).

According to the Bushido Shoshinshu ( the Code of the Samurai ), a samurai was supposed to commit oibara seppuku ( also " hara kiri " – ritual suicide ) upon the loss of his master.

According to Ken Hale, who studied Damin, no ritual initiations have been carried out in the Gulf of Carpentaria for half a century, and hence the language has also died out.

According to Shawn R. Davis, this particular ritual incorporates the elements of the yingim and the danyim.

According to Jewish law, ritual circumcision of male children is a commandment from God that Jews are obligated to follow, and is only postponed or abrogated in the case of threat to the life or health of the child.

According to Rabbi Isaac Klein's Guide to Jewish Religious Practice, a Conservative Jew ought to cover his head when in the synagogue, at prayer or sacred study, when engaging in a ritual act, and when eating.

According to Exodus, The Levites are apportioned no land in Canaan from which to subsist, but are instead granted the sacrificed animals and grain from all the other tribes for consumption or sale after ritual slaughter and burning.

According to a Sinhalese legend, Kandyan dances originate, 2500 years ago, from a magic ritual that broke the spell on a bewitched king.

According to Joshua Gunn, these are adapted from books of ritual magic such as Crowley's Magick: Elementary Theory.