These cycles would have been of astrological and ritual significance as Venus was associated with Quetzalcoatl or Xolotl.

Great bonfires would mark a time of purification and transition, heralding in the season in the hope of a good harvest later in the year, and were accompanied with ritual acts to protect the people from any harm by Otherworldly spirits, such as the Aos Sí.

Bernard would expand upon Anselm of Canterbury's role in transmuting the sacramentally ritual Christianity of the Early Middle Ages into a new, more personally held faith, with the life of Christ as a model and a new emphasis on the Virgin Mary.

Thus it has been alleged that many credentes would eventually receive the consolamentum as death drew near — performing the ritual of liberation at a moment when the heavy obligations of purity required of Perfecti would be temporally short.

Another argument in favor of an early dating is that the author seems unfamiliar with the Eucharist ritual ( had the author been familiar, it would have served as a great example ).

: Some would maintain that the premier animal of the Indo-European sacrifice and ritual was probably the horse.

Yahweh dwells with Israel in the holy of holies ; all the priestly ritual is focused on Yahweh and the construction and maintenance of a holy space ; but sin generates impurity, as do everyday events such as childbirth ; impurity pollutes the holy dwelling place ; failure to ritually purify the sacred space could result in God leaving, which would be disastrous.

However, it may have been for religious reasons, and would coincide with the development of religious practices thought to have occurred during the Upper Paleolithic .< ref > Nonetheless, it remains possible that Paleolithic societies never practiced cannibalism, and that the damage to recovered human bones was either the result of ritual post-mortem bone cleaning or predation by carnivores such as saber tooth cats, lions and hyenas.

But as this practice only attaches to certain ( major ) sacred days, others posit the extra day may have been added to accommodate people who had to travel long distances to participate in communal worship and ritual practices ; or the practice may have evolved as a compromise between conflicting interpretations of Jewish Law regarding the calendar ; or it may have evolved as a safety measure in areas where Jews were commonly in danger, so that their enemies would not be certain on which day to attack.

Each tournament began with a ritual which would decide how the tournament would take place.

Clemens would also find himself the point of minor controversy when it was revealed in the book The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci that Clemens ' bizarre pre-game ritual included soaking in extremely hot water then having the hottest possible muscle liniment applied to his genitals during his rub-down.

People and their livestock would often walk between two bonfires as a cleansing ritual, and the bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames.

Often two bonfires would be built side by side, and the people would walk between the fires as a ritual of purification.

" Theorising a new theatrical form that would be immediate and direct, that would link the unconscious minds of performers and spectators in a sort of ritual event, Artaud created the Theatre of Cruelty, in which emotions, feelings, and the metaphysical were expressed not through language but physically, creating a mythological, archetypal, allegorical vision, closely related to the world of dreams.

The Book of the Dead outlines a particular ritual that would protect the dead, enabling travel anywhere in the underworld, and most of the titles Isis holds signify her as the goddess of protection of the dead.

Many Roman historians, and some moderns, presume that Rome's sense of conservatism and continuity would have preserved the essentials and meaning of the Triumphal rite from the days of Rome's foundation ; for most Romans, the mythic antiquity of ritual confirmed its sanctity.

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.

During a sacrifice or other ritual, the senses of all participants and witnesses would be dulled and blurred with smoke, incense, and music.

The Empress disliked the ritual, and would eject courtiers from her rooms when she went into labor.

The most famous example of a widespread religious movement practicing lechery as a ritual would be the Bacchanalia of the Ancient Roman Bacchantes.

For cases in which parents were separated by this, a ritual was created called the ku ' nit ka ' fa ' ar, a battle to determine which parent would maintain their child.

In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

Different cultures affect ritual aspects of meetings, but around the world " many particularities of the AA meeting format can be observed at almost any A. A. gathering ".

It was the final stage of the reformers ' work of removing all elements of sacrificial offering from the Latin Mass ; so that it should cease to be seen as a ritual at which the priest, on behalf of the faithful offered Christ's body and blood to God ; and might rather be seen as a ritual whereby Christ shared his body and blood, according to a different sacramental theology, with the faithful.

The enemy may be the cosmopolitan intellectual, but the paranoid will outdo him in the apparatus of scholarship ... the Ku Klux Klan imitated Catholicism to the point of donning priestly vestments, developing an elaborate ritual and an equally elaborate hierarchy.

It is also still known to be practiced as a ritual and in war in various Melanesian tribes.

Consumption of a person from within the same community is called endocannibalism ; ritual cannibalism of the recently deceased can be part of the grieving process, or a way of guiding the souls of the dead into the bodies of living descendants.

" Attributes that are seen as religious — such as ancestor worship, ritual, and sacrifice — were advocated by Confucius as necessary for social harmony ; however, these attributes can be traced to the traditional non-Confucian Chinese beliefs of Chinese folk religion, and are also practiced by Daoists and Chinese Buddhists.

The Analects stress the importance of ritual, but also the importance of ' ren ', which loosely translates as ' human-heartedness, Confucianism, along with Legalism, is responsible for creating the world ’ s first meritocracy, which holds that one's status should be determined by education and character rather than ancestry, wealth, or friendship.

The major Confucian concepts include rén ( humanity or humaneness ), zhèngmíng ( rectification of names ; e. g. a ruler who rules unjustly is no longer a ruler and may be dethroned ), zhōng ( loyalty ), xiào ( filial piety ), and lǐ ( ritual ).

The chamada can be very simple, consisting solely of the basic elements, or the ritual can be quite elaborate including a competitive dialogue of trickery, or even theatric embellishments.

The early history of the synagogue is obscure, but it seems to be an institution developed for public Jewish worship during the Babylonian captivity when the Jews ( and Jewish Proselytes ) did not have access to a Temple ( the First Temple having been destroyed c. 586 BC ) for ritual sacrifice.

Individual rabbis continue to be free to avail themselves of more traditionalist minority rulings, and some congregations, particularly in Canada, accordingly still retain a more limited ritual role for women.

In this interpretative schema, the institution of the Rex Nemorensis and related ritual should be seen as related to the theme of the dying god and the kings of May.

The origin of the ritual of the rex Nemorensis should have to be traced to the legend of Orestes and Iphigenia more than that of Hippolitos.

Divination ( from Latin divinare " to foresee, to be inspired by a god ", related to divinus, divine ) is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic standardized process or ritual.

If a distinction is to be made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a formal or ritual and often social character, usually in a religious context, as seen in traditional African medicine ; while fortune-telling is a more everyday practice for personal purposes.

David depicts the father with his back to the women, shutting them out of the oath making ritual ; they also appear to be smaller in scale than the male figures.

The famed apologist St. Justin Martyr ( c. 150 ) wrote: " No one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true ...." For the first several hundred years, non-members were forbidden even to be present at the sacramental ritual ; visitors and catechumens ( those still undergoing instruction ) were dismissed halfway through the Liturgy, after the Bible readings and sermon but before the Eucharistic rite.

These beings may be the origin of the Greco-Roman Galli, androgynous beings of the third sex, similar to the American Indian berdache, who played an important part in early religious ritual.

She was punished by the goddess for not having performed a ritual dance.

They have inherited aspects of pre-colonial ritual practices in the Bandas that are highly valued and still performed, giving them a distinct and very local cultural identity.

The player must first fight through the undead hordes infesting, and the site where the elders performed their ritual.

In the Temple in Jerusalem, the levites sang Psalms, performed construction, maintenance, janitorial, and guard duties, assisted the priests, and sometimes interpreted the law and Temple ritual to the public.

A drought in Fujian caused many people to ask her to call for rain, which was a ritual that could not be performed while pregnant.

In addition, these " conditional " ordinances on behalf of the dead are performed only when a deceased person's genealogical information has been submitted to a temple and correctly processed there before the ordinance ritual is performed.

Pausanias records a grove of Cabeirian Demeter and the Maid, three miles outside the gates of Thebes, where a ritual was performed, so called on the grounds that Demeter gave it to the Cabeiri, who established it at Thebes.

The ritual of sandhyavandanam, performed by Hindus, is an elaborate set of hand gestures and body movements, designed to greet and revere the Sun.

* When they wished to bear offspring, they performed a ritual each rounding a pole, male to the left and female to the right, the female greeting the male first.

The ritual of chinkon continued to be performed on the emperors of Japan, thought to be descendents of Amaterasu.

This ritual was performed by the relatives.

A different type of salute with a rifle is a ritual firing performed during military funerals, known as a three-volley salute.

In addition, a ritual bath in pure water is performed for the dead in many religions including Islam and Judaism.

* Cashiering or degradation ceremony, a ritual performed when cleric is deprived of office or a knight is stripped of the honour

This ritual is not exclusive to the yakuza — it is also commonly performed in traditional Japanese Shinto weddings, and may have been a part of sworn brotherhood relationships.

The Seder is a ritual performed by a community or by multiple generations of a family, involving a retelling of the story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt.

The opening of the mouth ceremony, a key funerary ritual, performed for Tutankhamun by his successor Ay.

A modern example of this phenomenon, meanwhile, is that of the priestly monarchs of the Yoruba holy city of Ile-Ife in Nigeria, where ritual ceremonies have been performed for centuries by the reigning Onis of the realm for the sustenance of the entire planet and its people.

The Barthez-Blanc head-kissing ritual was performed at the start of Champions League matches.

The yokozunas ring-entering ceremony is regarded as a purification ritual in its own right, and is occasionally performed at Shinto shrines for this purpose.

In this place, particularly in Santa Cruz Dolmen, the ritual burials of the surrounding regions ' chieftains were performed.

He was recovered and was taken with McCoy to Mount Seleya on Vulcan where a Vulcan high priestess named T ' Lar performed a rare, seldom-attempted ritual called the fal tor pan, literally, " re-fusion ," which removed the katra from McCoy and implanted it into Spock's regenerated body.

Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, or religious prostitution is a sexual ritual consisting of prostitution or other sexual intercourse performed in the context of religious worship, often as a form of fertility rite.

It is believed that the rear chamber is the coffin chamber, that side chambers were used for storage, while ritual ceremonies were performed in the front chamber under the domed roof.