A large plaza located adjacent to Monks Mound was a place where games and public rituals took place.

The tribes of the north were mlecchas either because they were located on the frontiers such as Gandhara, Kashmira and Kambojas and therefore both their speech and culture had become contaminated and differed from that of Aryavarta, or else, as in the case of South Indians, they were once Aryas but having forsaken the Vedic rituals were regarded to mleccha status.

Associated with the monastery is a series of 26 chapels, which were located in places were pre-Hispanic rituals had been performed as part of the “ spiritual conquest ” of the area.

Historically, suspension rituals were performed by the Mandan tribe, located along the banks of the Missouri River.

The interesting feature of the mountains are, mountains look like a lady sleeping from one end, and one of the mountains looks as lord vinayaka, this mountain is located to Akkamma devi temple where the people from all the villages gather once in a year for rituals.

They differentiate among various sexual practices, treating rape, prostitution, or temple sex rituals as immoral and those within committed relationships as positive regardless of sexual orientation.

These texts discuss theology, philosophy, mythology, rituals and temple building among other topics.

Because these spells have ( very ) long casting times ( up to several days ), highly specific and exacting verbal, material and somatic requirements, and can only be cast inside the sorcerer's consecrated temple, these spells are actually more like quasi-religious rituals.

A pujari performs rituals in a temple.

A purohit, on the other hand, performs rituals and saṃskāras ( sacraments ) outside of the temple.

** Temple dance – religious performance held in the temples, such as sadir, prescribed by Agamas ( scriptures that codified temple rituals, etc .).

The Maya, and later the Aztecs, smoked tobacco and various psychoactive drugs in religious rituals and frequently depicted priests and deities smoking on pottery and temple engravings.

This magic was used in temple rituals as well as informal situations by priests.

In temple offering rituals, the officiating priest took on the role of Horus, the gifts to the deity became the Eye of Horus, and whichever deity received these gifts was momentarily equated with Osiris.

Nevertheless, in these late times, the widespread temple rituals involving the ceremonial annihilation of Set were often connected with the myth.

The genuine cases were sorted and the supplicant had to go through rituals involving the framing of their questions, the presentation of gifts to the Oracle and a procession along the Sacred Way carrying laurel leaves to visit the temple, symbolic of the journey they had made.

Religious worship and temple rituals continued during the construction process.

Some aspects of the ritual of the oath for Dius Fidius, such as the proceedings under the open sky and / or in the compluvium of private residences and the fact the temple of Sancus had no roof, have suggested to romanist O. Sacchi the idea that the oath by Dius Fidius predated that for Iuppiter Lapis or Iuppiter Feretrius, and should have its origin in prehistoric time rituals, when the templum was in the open air and defined by natural landmarks as e. g. the highest nearby tree.

Usually the queen, who always carried the royal lineage among the rulers of Egypt, served as the chief priestess in the temple rituals.

This magic was used in temple rituals as well as informal situations by priests.

# the spiritual advisor for higher caste Hindus who also performs traditional rituals and who is not connected to a temple ( thus not a priest );

In contrast to the stupas, the hollow gu-style temple is a structure used for meditation, devotional worship of the Buddha and other Buddhist rituals.

It is the only temple in Jharkhand where the religious rituals are performed by the Pahans ( tribal priests ) along with conventional Brahmins.

Tamils consider their language to be sacred and divine with equal status to Sanskrit within temple rituals.

Little is known about the temple builders of Malta and Gozo ; however there is some evidence that their rituals included animal sacrifice.

Among the subjects they cover are hymns, rituals, temple construction, astrology, geography, and medicine.

The Vestal Virgins, originally numbering two, later four and eventually six, were selected by lot and served for thirty years, tending the holy fire and performing other rituals connected to domestic life — among them were the ritual sweeping of the temple on June 15 and the preparation of foods for certain festivals.

Starting with the rituals of Jagannath temple in Puri it was regularly performed in Shaivite, Vaishnavite and Sakta temples in Orissa.

Apart from taking care of the temple and performing various rituals, these women learned and practiced Odissi dance, for dance and music were an essential part of temple worship.

The " elf-shot " originally indicated disease or death attributed to the elves, but it was later attested denoting arrow-heads which were used by witches to harm people, and also for healing rituals.

Omens, symbols, purifications, and exorcisms appear in old Assyro-Babylonian texts, and these rituals were spread into the empire of the Hittites.

It seems that these rituals were dormant in Greece, and they were reinforced when the Greeks migrated to Anatolia.

Eventually, these early humans grew to believe that the spirits were invested and interested in human life, and performed rituals to propitiate them.

Jews were prohibited from engaging in these rituals and were punished for doing so (,,, ).

Some of the outcast occupations involved human and animal waste, dead carcasses, leather work, human corpse rituals, postpartum blood rituals, and such work ; for this, the Chinese outcasts were considered a polluted and irreversibly impure segment of the society.

The Santo Daime also includes children in their Entheogenic rituals ; studies done by the Brazilian government concluded that there were no physical or mental damage caused by this practice, so it is allowed.

Although first attested in the sense ' sharp pain caused by elves ', it is later attested denoting Neolithic flint arrow-heads, which by the 17th century seem to have been attributed in the region to elvish folk, and which were used in healing rituals, and alleged to be used by witches ( and perhaps elves ) to injure people and cattle.

Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals which were an integral part of ancient Egyptian society.

Therefore, the state dedicated enormous resources to the performance of these rituals and to the construction of the temples where they were carried out.

These popular religious practices were distinct from, but closely linked with, the formal rituals and institutions.

Egyptian funeral rituals were intended to release the ba from the body so that it could move freely, and to rejoin it with the ka so that it could live on as an akh.

These rituals were designed to reduce that fear ; they helped collect the cultural ideas that we now have in the present.

In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.

To counter this, the Roman Catholic Church authorised the production of many works of exorcism, the rituals of which were often very similar to those of demonic conjuration.

Gardner himself admitted that the rituals of the existing group were fragmentary at best, and he set about reconstructing them as a basis of his tradition, drawing on his skills as an occultist and amateur folklorist.

It also appears that he came into contact with the banned Christian sect known as the khlysty ( flagellants ) whose impassioned services, ending in physical exhaustion, led to rumors that religious and sexual ecstasy were combined in these rituals.

In 1888, the Isis-Urania Temple was founded in London, where the rituals decoded from the cipher manuscripts were developed and practiced.

These rituals were based on the tradition of the tomb of Christian Rosenkreuz, and a Vault of Adepts became the controlling force behind the Outer Order.

The caves were not in an inhabited area, so they may have been used for seasonal rituals.

Later mansas were devout Muslims but still acknowledged traditional deities and took part in traditional rituals and festivals, which were important to the Mande.