Dancing girls used these masks during the annual " vegetation ritual ".

In the foundation legend of a specifically Cean weather-magic ritual, Aristaeus was credited with the double sacrifice that countered the deadly effects of the Dog-Star, a sacrifice at dawn to Zeus Ikmaios, " Rain-making Zeus " at a mountaintop altar following a pre-dawn chthonic sacrifice to Sirius, the Dog-Star, at its first annual appearance, which brought the annual relief of the cooling Etesian winds.

As had occurred with Amos ' n Andy on the radio in the early 1930s, and would happen with the annual telecasts of The Wizard of Oz in the 1960s and ' 70's, the family ritual of gathering around the television set to watch Ed Sullivan became almost a U. S. cultural universal.

This group became the Reclaiming Collective, and their annual Spiral Dance ritual now draws hundreds of participants.

Bali Jatra of Sonepur in Orissa, India is also an annual festival celebrated in the month of Aswina ( September – October ) when animal sacrifice is an integral part of the ritual worship of deities namely Samaleswari, Sureswari and Khambeswari.

As the Aztec Empire grew, it conquered Tlaxcala ’ s neighbors but left the dominion in order to perform annual ritual combat called the “ flower wars ” which aimed to not conquer but capture soldiers for sacrifice.

The annual event now known as Burning Man began as a bonfire ritual on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned a 9-foot ( 2. 7-meter ) wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog.

Universities in Chile follow an annual ritual called " Mechoneo " ( the act of pulling somebody's hair ).

* Hägar's annual bath ritual.

The annual Rath Yathra of the God is a much awaited ritual in Nellore.

* Incidents during the Hajj: 244 Muslim pilgrims are trampled to death during the ritual of the stoning of the devil at the Hajj ( annual pilgrimage to Mecca ).

Thus if God commanded us " to gratuitously inflict pain on each other " or to engage in " cruelty for its own sake " or to hold an " annual sacrifice of randomly selected ten-year-olds in a particularly gruesome ritual that involves excruciating and prolonged suffering for its victims ", then we would be morally obligated to do so.

The proposals and subsequent diplomatic disagreements have been described as a " nearly annual ritual ".

He also played a part in the development of football in a time when it was a controversial game by providing a field for the annual Alnwick Shrove Tuesday game and presenting the ball before the match — a ritual that continues to this day.

The Shi ’ ite Muslim festival of Ashura, an annual event dedicated to Imam Ali Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad includes a painful and religious ritual called Matam ( Malik 2 ).

Another affirmation of the Rajput's reverence for his sword was the Karga Shapna (" adoration of the sword ") ritual, performed during the annual Navaratri festival, after which a Rajput is considered " free to indulge his passion for rapine and revenge ".

Locals have held an annual offertory ritual and celebration at That Sri Songrak each May 15 for centuries.

The most important and revered position in in Akha spiritual matters is given to a village leader, whose ritual responsibilities include initiating the annual rebuilding of the village gates and the swing as well as advising and instructing villages on certain matters and settling disputes.

The Senators even constructed a special presidential box near the first base dugout for the annual ritual.

This became an annual ritual, and the galloping horse performance developed into an equestrian archery performance.

Later, Youkilis was swept up in the team's ritual annual hazing, in which he and other rookies were made to wear skimpy Hooters waitress outfits, orange satin shorts and tight, clingy white tank tops, for the team trip from Canada through US Customs in Florida.

Attending the lieutenant governor's levée is an annual ritual for some families.

* The decision of celebrating ritual ceremonies comes from the panel e. g. the announcement of annual crop growing ceremony ( Taghm ), harvesting, ( Tczineer ) farewell of winter ( Kitithit ) etc.

One seed-to-seed life cycle for an annual can occur in as little as a month in some species, though most last several months.

* Behar, a portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading

The Horned God reflects the seasons of the year in an annual cycle of life, death and rebirth.

It is not an economically viable source of production where the load varies too much during the annual production cycle and the ability to stop the flow of water is limited.

Syriac churches still use many of Ephrem's hymns as part of the annual cycle of worship.

The Hebrew calendar follows a seven-day weekly cycle, which runs concurrently but independently of the monthly and annual cycles.

There is also indication that there were twelve months in the annual cycle (, ).

" This name actually refers to a special " ceremony ": the last weekly Torah portion is read from Deuteronomy, completing the annual cycle, and is followed immediately by the reading of the first chapter of Genesis.

Some lunar calendars are calibrated by annual natural events which are affected by lunar cycles as well as the solar cycle.

# The phase of the annual agricultural cycle

Jews observe an annual holiday, Simchat Torah, to celebrate the completion of the year's cycle of readings.

The Wheel of the Year is a modern Pagan term for the annual cycle of the Earth's seasons.

Other annual plants require winter cold to complete their life cycle, this is known as vernalization.

A winter annual with a relatively short life cycle, Arabidopsis is a popular model organism in plant biology and genetics.

Such is most of typical total dosage ( with mean annual exposure from other sources amounting to 0. 4 mSv from cosmic rays, 0. 007 mSv from the legacy of past atmospheric nuclear testing along with the Chernobyl disaster, 0. 0002 mSv from the nuclear fuel cycle, and, averaged over the whole populace, 0. 6 mSv medical tests and 0. 005 mSv occupational exposure ).

Slovenia has a rich and diverse annual cycle of holidays.

The services that are held within the cathedral follow an annual cycle.

In the open ocean ( away from areas of continuous upwelling ), this cycle of bloom, bust, then return to pre-bloom conditions typically occurs over an annual cycle, with diatoms only being prevalent during the spring and early summer.

Separately, the cycle of completing an annual public reading of the Torah through weekly Torah portions concludes at this time of the year.

Common time on a typical clock measures a slightly longer cycle, accounting not only for the Earth's axial rotation but also for the Earth's annual revolution around the Sun of slightly less than 1 degree per day.

* Agricultural cycle – annual cycle of activitites related to the growth and harvest of a crop.

The liturgical year, also known as the church year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches which determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of Scripture are to be read either in an annual cycle or in a cycle of several years.