Mikveh ( Ritual immersion pool ) in Bircza, Poland.

Ritual killings perpetrated by individuals or small groups within a society that denounces them as simple murder are difficult to classify as either " human sacrifice " or mere pathological homicide because they lack the societal integration of sacrifice proper.

First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly sole artist ( Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story " Broken Ritual " is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black-and-white version of the story " Return to Adachi Plain " that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paperback edition of Usagi Yojimbo ).

The Arboretum features a small group of public artworks including " Split Ritual " by American sculptor Beverly Pepper.

Indeed, Ritual claims that a proficient FPS player and a brand new FPS player started at the same time and, despite their widely different level of ability, finished within a small range of time of each other.

Exorcisms are carried out through the use of various rituals of exorcism, such as the Roman Ritual, and often utilize attendant sacramentals such as holy water, while deliverance involves the ongoing counseling of the individual through various programs.

This date is also known as The Feast of the Supreme Ritual.

He was best known as the lead singer, poet and frontman of Hawkwind intermittently from 1972 – 1979 during which time he co-wrote their hit single " Silver Machine " and directed their Space Ritual Tour.

Based in Dallas, Texas, Ritual was formerly known as Hipnotic Interactive, during which period they began development of their signature video game SiN.

It constitutes the main part of the Grand Ritual of Tantra known as Panchamakara, Panchatattva, and Tattva Chakra.

In 1929, this close study of Jewish scripture helped convict Streicher in a case known as “ The Great Nuremberg Ritual Murder Trial .” His familiarity with Jewish text was proof to the court that his attacks were religious in nature ; Streicher was found guilty and imprisoned for two months.

The singer Phil Anselmo — known for his work with Pantera, Down, and Superjoint Ritual — explained in an interview with D. X. Ferris, the author of the book about the album Reign in Blood, that " Hell Awaits just holds the entire thing.

* The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, also known as the Iron Ring Ceremony

The Roman Ritual instructs the officiating priest only to record the father ’ s name if the father himself requests it or if he is known to be the father from some public authentic document ( Titulus XII, caput II ).

Jaimini is most known for his great treatise Purva Mimamsa Sutras (“ First Reflection ”), or Karma-mimamsa (“ Study of Ritual Action ”), a system that investigates the nature of Vedic injunctions.

The ring is presented to graduates in a closed ceremony known as The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, that was developed with the assistance of English poet Rudyard Kipling.

The Bornless Ritual, also known as the Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia, or the Invocation of the Heart Girt with a Serpent, is often considered the proper preliminary invocation to the Ars Goetia since it was introduced as such by Aleister Crowley.

It is the most important of the five makara and constitutes the main part of the Grand Ritual of Tantra variously known as Panchamakara, Panchatattva, and Tattva Chakra.

*** Ritual ( film ), also known as Tales From the Crypt Presents: Ritual, 2001 release and the fifth installment ( third of the HBO spinoffs ) in the series starring Tim Curry, Jennifer Grey and Craig Sheffer

Is never quoted, but is known to be impossible without at least one live chicken and a rabbi, presumably the Jewish Ritual " Kapparot ".

# " Ritual " ( Climax 1953 ; also known as " Strange Ritual ")

Donald Erb ( b. Youngstown, Ohio, United States, January 17, 1927 ; d. Cleveland Heights, Ohio, August 12, 2008 ) was an American composer best known for large orchestral works such as Concerto for Brass and Orchestra and Ritual Observances.

* After Grand Ritual and until the start of Summer Camp the next year is known as the off-season.

Early scholars, adopting a proposal of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, contrasted the " Ritual " Decalogue with the " Ethical " Decalogue of and, which are the texts more generally known as the Ten Commandments.

He has been known to lose control outside the interrogation room, as shown in the season 5 episode " Ritual ".

The best known of these dances is the Ritual Ceremony of the Voladores of Papantla, which has been recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.

Fire is considered to be active ; it is represented by the symbol for Leo and it is referred to the lower right point of the pentacle in the Supreme Invoking Ritual of the Pentacle.

Air is considerable and it is referred to the upper left point of the pentagram in the Supreme Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram.

It is referred to the upper right point of the pentagram in the Supreme Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram.

Earth is considered to be passive ; it is represented by the symbol for Taurus, and it is referred to the lower left point of the pentagram in the Supreme Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram.

Ritual fasting is an obligatory act during the month of Ramadan.

Ritual, therefore, is not a series of actions undertaken for their own sake, but a means of maintaining the relationship between God, the world, and humankind.

Ritual purity is essential if an Israelite is to be able to approach God and remain part of the community.

Ritual plays a prominent part in pagan religious movements, where it is typically employed to induce an altered state of consciousness in the participants.

Ritual nudity is not exclusive to traditional Wicca.

* 600-750-Maguey Bloodletting Ritual, fragment of a fresco from Teotihuacan, Mexico, is made.

Heavy Metal: F. A. K. K. ² is a third-person shooter video game made by Ritual Entertainment in 2000.

Shaffer read the David Pinner novel Ritual, in which a devout Christian policeman is called to investigate what appears to be the ritual murder of a young girl in a rural village, and decided that it would serve well as the source material for the project.

The main focus of the Festival is the Ritual Drama.

SiN is a first-person shooter video game based on a modified version of the Quake II engine developed by Ritual Entertainment and published by Activision in late 1998.

In the Museum of Modern Art retrospective ( 2010 ), it was suggested that the pieces of the mirror falling into the ocean waves set up At Land ( 1944 ) as a direct sequel, while Deren's last scene in the latter film ( running with her hands up with a chess piece in one of them ) is then echoed by a scene in Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ), with that character still running.

Although he nearly succeeds in performing the ' Darkopolypse Ritual ', which would give a group of demons the power to rule Earth for the next ten thousand years, his plan is foiled and he and his minions are arrested because he underestimated the Mystery Inc. team, inviting them all to the theme park where he was conducting the ritual after they broke up years before simply to make them witness his triumph when he only needed Scooby present, intending to use Scooby's ' pure ' soul to complete his ritual.

They were approached with questions about crops, weather, or the health of bees ( Landa ), and often invoked in curing rituals ( which is the basic reason why the most important early-colonial collection of Yucatec curing texts, the Ritual of the Bacabs, has been named after them ).