The main buildings at Pueblo Bonito, for example, are arranged according to this direction and probably served as central places for ceremonial journeys across the landscape.

The prime minister and cabinet play the central role in the political process, while the president performs some executive and legislative functions in addition to ceremonial duties.

The central government exercises its broad administrative powers in the name of the President, whose duties are largely ceremonial.

The Mayor of London is also referred to as the London Mayor, a form which helps to avoid confusion with the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the ancient and now mainly ceremonial role in the geographically smaller central region of the ancient City of London.

The earliest known inhabitants of the southeastern and central Ohio region were the Hopewell, Adena, and Fort Ancient Native Americans, of whom little evidence survived, beyond the burial and ceremonial mounds built throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.

Both rooms are located in the ceremonial complex on the west of the central court.

The city's broad central avenue, called " Avenue of the Dead " ( a translation from its Nahuatl name Miccoatli ), is flanked by impressive ceremonial architecture, including the immense Pyramid of the Sun ( third largest in the

Schlegel explains why there was female superiority as that the Hopi believed in " life as the highest good ... the female principle ... activated in women and in Mother Earth ... as its source " and that the Hopi " were not in a state of continual war with equally matched neighbors " and " had no standing army " so that " the Hopi lacked the spur to masculine superiority " and, within that, as that women were central to institutions of clan and household and predominated " within the economic and social systems ( in contrast to male predominance within the political and ceremonial systems )", the Clan Mother, for example, being empowered to overturn land distribution by men if she felt it was unfair, since there was no " countervailing ... strongly centralized, male-centered political structure ".

It is the central feature of a vast mortuary complex in an enormous courtyard surrounded by ceremonial structures and decoration.

Their central location in settlements and the work that evidently went into constructing them is indicative of their importance to the community, which gives credence to a religious or ceremonial function.

An offering in the central ceremonial precinct contained an undecorated lidded limestone vessel with jadeite objects, two pearls, laminae of crystalline hematite, Spondylus shell beads, and a tumbaga gold-copper alloy bead representing a jaguar claw.

A ceremonial start occurs in the city of Anchorage and is followed by the official restart in Willow, a city in the south central region of the state.

A further suggestion of possible war or battle is found in the remains of a wall which encircled most of the central ceremonial center.

As in Mesoamerica, where according to the Fuson hypothesis the Olmecs and Maya oriented their ceremonial buildings and pyramids using a compass even before the Chinese, here in central China the same technique may have been used.

It is in the south eastern corner of the ceremonial Royal County of Berkshire, within the Borough of Bracknell Forest, and is situated south west of central London, north west of Camberley and south of Bracknell.

The dwellings were built around a central ceremonial plaza likely used for rituals and public gatherings, as has been found at other similar locations.

There are many kinds of songs, both lyrical and instrument, including work songs, ceremonial, funeral, wedding and musical epics, especially the central Tajik heroic legend Gurugli.

The South Group and the Adobe Group have been classified as ceremonial centers with central plazas surrounded by mound structures.

Most Chiricahua and Mescalero ceremonies were learned through the transmission of personal religious visions, while the Jicarilla and Western Apache used standardized rituals as the more central ceremonial practice.

Batik garments play a central role in certain rituals, such as the ceremonial casting of royal batik into a volcano.

Woughton () is a civil parish in south central Milton Keynes, ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England.

Li was a believer in central planning, and his appointment to this largely ceremonial position was a compromise move to appease conservative elements in the party.

" It generally consists of an area of cleared land roughly rectangular ( the marae itself ), bordered with stones or wooden posts ( called au in Tahitian and Cook Islands Māori ) perhaps with terraces ( paepae ) which were traditionally used for ceremonial purposes ; and in some cases, a central stone ahu or a ' u.

The northern entrances open onto the central ceremonial court which is surrounded with an L – shaped portico.

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.

It provides for a series of landscaped walkways and a central esplanade that would eventually run through the center of the entire two-and-a-half-mile length of the project.

Headquarters has also set up a central juvenile book-review and book-selection center, to provide better methods of purchasing and selection.

In this painting, Altdorfer places a large tree that is cut off by the margins at the center of the landscape, making it the central axis and focus within the piece.

North of Columbus Circle, Broadway retains planted center islands as a vestige of the central mall of " The Boulevard " that became the spine of the Upper West Side.

In northern and central Sardinia, the dance is lively and animated with leaps and agile movements and usually accompanied by a choir of three or more singers in the center of the circle.

The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions.

The side channels run parallel to the center channel, except at locations such as the navel, heart, throat and crown ( i. e. chakras ) where the two side channels twist around the central channel.

The Kyrios title for Jesus is central to the development of New Testament Christology, for the early Christians placed it at the center of their understanding, and from that center attempted to understand the other issues related to the Christian mysteries.

It is located on its own campus in the center of Eindhoven, just north of the central station.

In April 2012, the International Flying Car Association was established to be the " central resource center for information and communication between the flying car industry, news networks, governments, and those seeking further information worldwide.

James Mellaart, who excavated the site, believed that Çatalhöyük was the spiritual center of central Anatolia.

Broca's Area is today still considered an important language center, playing a central role in processing syntax, grammar, and sentence structure.

When it was pointed out to Niven that the Ringworld was dynamically unstable, in that once the center of rotation drifted away from the central sun, gravity would pull the ring into contact with the star, he used this as a plot element in the sequel novel, The Ringworld Engineers.

Kuniyoshi Sakai proposed, based on several neuroimaging studies, that there may be a " grammar center ", where language is primarily processed in the left lateral premotor cortex ( located near the pre central sulcus and the inferior frontal sulcus ).

In animals, the brain, or encephalon ( Greek for " in the head "), is the control center of the central nervous system, responsible for thought.

In addition to this, an $ 80 million central command center is under construction at Kabul International Airport and is scheduled to be ready for use in 2012.

In the 19th century, the government's policy was to send the heretics away from the center of the country into Caucasus, especially Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, central Asia, and Siberia.

A special grade of the medal, known as the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, has a larger execution of the same medal design worn as a star on the left chest along with a sash over the right shoulder, with its rosette ( blue with white edge, bearing the central disc of the medal at its center ) resting on the left hip.

For example the central convex pentagon in the center of a pentagram has density 2.

Since every central subgroup is normal, it follows that every minimal normal subgroup of a finite p-group is central and has order p. Indeed, the socle of a finite p-group is the subgroup of the center consisting of the central elements of order p.