Another common emblem was the sacrificial tripod, representing his prophetic powers.

A sacrificial tripod is a three-legged piece of religious furniture used for offerings or other ritual procedures.

In Roman art, the libation is shown performed at an altar, mensa ( sacrificial meal table ), or tripod.

It needed a stand, frequently a sacrificial tripod, to remain upright.

Sparta was represented on a sacrificial tripod at Amyclae.

As an example, an iron or steel ship's hull may be protected by a zinc sacrificial anode, which will dissolve into the seawater and prevent the hull from being corroded.

At the beginning of the 3rd century, Hippolytus of Rome describes another feature of the ministry of a bishop, which is that of the " Spiritum primatus sacerdotii habere potestatem dimittere peccata ": the primate of sacrificial priesthood and the power to forgive sins.

It is common for retiring professors to have served the university for thirty, forty, and even occasionally, fifty years, a circumstance that has contributed to the stability and conservatism of an institution of higher learning that has virtually no endowment and at which faculty salaries are " sacrificial.

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.

Next two young patrician Luperci were led to the altar, to be anointed on their foreheads with the sacrificial blood, which was wiped off the bloody knife with wool soaked in milk, after which they were expected to smile and laugh.

The sacrificial feast followed, after which the Luperci cut thongs from the skins of the victims, which were called februa, dressed themselves in the skins of the sacrificed goats, in imitation of Lupercus, and ran round the walls of the old Palatine city, the line of which was marked with stones, with the thongs in their hands in two bands, striking the people who crowded near.

The sole exception is the historic sacrificial lamb, which is never part of the modern Jewish holiday but is still a principal feature of Falashah, Karaite and Samaritan observance.

Many interesting customs were observed, for example the extravagant feast of Inti Raymi which gave thanks to the God Sun, and the young women who were the Virgins of the Sun, sacrificial virgins devoted to the Inti.

As Anglicanism represents a broad range of theological opinion, its presbyterate includes priests who consider themselves no different in any respect from those of the Roman Catholic Church, and a minority who prefer to use the title presbyter in order to distance themselves from the more sacrificial theological implications which they associate with the word “ priest .” While priest is the official title of a member of the presbyterate in every Anglican province worldwide, the ordination rite of certain provinces ( including the Church of England ) recognizes the breadth of opinion by adopting the title The Ordination of Priests ( also called Presbyters ).

They maintain that what constitutes child abuse is a matter of objective fact, and that some of the practices which mainstream anthropologists apologize for ( e. g., sacrificial rituals ) may result in psychosis, dissociation and magical thinking: particularly for the surviving children who had a sacrificed brother or sister by their parents.

Ikenga, an alusi of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria requires consecration before religious use with offerings which include the sacrificial blood of a rooster or ram for the spirit.

The Sikh code of conduct strictly forbids the use of intoxicants, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, narcotics and any other foreign substance which disrupt the body ; sexual relationship outside of marriage ; consumption of sacrificial meat ( Kutha meat ), and cutting of hair.

* The Jerusalem Talmud does not cover the Mishnaic order of Kodashim, which deals with sacrificial rites and laws pertaining to the Temple, while the Babylonian Talmud does cover it.

These bronzes which were used as vessels, amulets, pendants and sacrificial tools, are among some of the earliest made bronzes ever found in Nigeria.

Hestia's name and functions show the importance of the hearth and its fire in the social, religious and political life of ancient Greece ; essential for warmth, food preparation, and the completion of sacrificial offerings to deities, in which Hestia was the " customary recipient of a preliminary, usually cheap, sacrifice ".

To protect the casing from corrosive hot gases, a sacrificial thermal liner on the inside of the casing is often implemented, which ablates to prolong the life of the motor casing.

Religious practices were usually held in local shrines and sacred areas, which contained sacrificial altars.

Every temple however had to have two fires of which one was a hearth ( Latin focus ), representative of the fire ( Latin foculus ) of Vesta as the hearth of the city, and the main was the sacrificial ara.

Judaism does not have clergy as such, although according to the Torah there is a tribe of priests known as the Kohanim who were leaders of the religion up to the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70AD when most Sadducees were wiped out ; each member of the tribe, a Kohen had priestly duties, many of which centered around the sacrificial duties, atonement and blessings of the Israelite nation.

To incorporate nanowire technology into industrial applications, researchers in 2008 developed a method of welding nanowires together: a sacrificial metal nanowire is placed adjacent to the ends of the pieces to be joined ( using the manipulators of a scanning electron microscope ); then an electric current is applied, which fuses the wire ends.

The Odysseys passages contain many descriptive references to necromantic rituals: rites must be performed around a pit with fire during nocturnal hours, and Odysseus has to follow a specific recipe, which includes the blood of sacrificial animals, to concoct a libation for the ghosts to drink while he recites prayers to both the ghosts and gods of the underworld.

Having failed to perform Roman masculinity and virtue, Antony's only means with which he might “ write himself into Rome's imperial narrative and position himself at the birth of empire ” is to cast himself in the feminine archetype of the sacrificial virgin ; “ once understands his failed virtus, his failure to be Aeneas, he then tries to emulate Dido ”.

The GOP instead ran the 40-year-old Pine Bluff plumber Leon Griffith as its sacrificial lamb candidate against Pryor, who won the second of his two gubernatorial terms with more than 80 percent of the ballots.

Burns won the Republican primary, but was initially seen as a sacrificial lamb candidate, given his extremely conservative profile.

This time Moheschunder, as Black, won after some enterprising ( and perhaps dubious ) sacrificial play:

Atonement, if atonement were possible, could only be made at that sacred, sacrificial basin.

When the Northern Expedition was complete, Kuomintang Generals led by Chiang Kai-shek paid tribute to Dr. Sun's soul in heaven with a sacrificial ceremony at the Xiangshan Temple in Beijing in July 1928.

Rabbinic literature also linked Isaac's blindness in old age, as stated in the Bible, to the sacrificial binding: Isaac's eyes went blind because the tears of angels present at the time of his sacrifice fell on Isaac's eyes.

En route, Israel stopped at Beersheba for the night to make a sacrificial offering to his god, Yahweh.

When the Northern Expedition was complete, Kuomintang Generals led by Chiang Kaishek paid tribute to Dr. Sun's soul in heaven with a sacrificial ceremony at the Xiangshan Temple in Beijing in July 1928, among the Kuomintang Generals present were the Muslim Generals Bai Chongxi and Ma Fuxiang.

In the trick at Mecone, a sacrificial meal marking the " settling of accounts " between mortals and immortals, Prometheus played a trick against Zeus ( 545 – 557 ).

An archaeological discovery in the 1990s was of a sacrificial pit at Sanxingdui in Sichuan, China.

* Catherine makes public confession of Christian gospel at a sacrificial feast ordered by Maximinus II at Alexandria.

Modigliani's behaviour at this time sheds some light upon his developing style as an artist, in that the studio had become almost a sacrificial effigy for all that he resented about the academic art that had marked his life and his training up to that point.

" She adds that there may also be a memory in this of a " priestess of the god of war, women who officiated at the sacrificial rites when captives were put to death after battle.

The sacrificial methods employed varied, but at least one of the victims would be bled to death.

So when Pelopia, who at the time stayed in Sicyon at the court of king Thesprotus, came to the bank of a river to wash her clothes that had been stained with blood during a sacrificial rite, Thyestes, covering his face, attacked and raped her.

At Elis, white poplar was the only wood used in sacrifices to Zeus, according to Pausanias, because Herakles imported the tree and used it to burn the thigh bones of sacrificial victims at Olympia.

Since the shrine was accessible only by way of three stairways, a small number of guards could prevent non-priests from spying on the rituals at the shrine on top of the ziggurat, such as cooking of sacrificial food and burning of carcasses of sacrificial animals.

At the sanctuary at Olympia, chthonic night-time libations were offered each time to " dark-faced " Pelops in his sacrificial pit ( bothros ) before they were offered in the following daylight to the sky-god Zeus ( Burkert 1983: 96 ).

* Eurypylus, a son of Eurystheus killed by Heracles at a sacrificial meal alongside his brothers Perimedes and Eurybius.

The ruler of China in every Chinese dynasty would perform annual sacrificial rituals to Shangdi at the great Temple of Heaven in the imperial capital.

* Athamas: A legendary king of Boeotia and the subject of two plays by Sophocles, in one of which he is depicted as a sacrificial victim at the altar of Zeus.

At the town of Hermopolis, ibises were reared specifically for sacrificial purposes and in the Serapeum at Saqqara, archaeologists found the mummies of one and a half million ibises and hundreds of thousands of falcons.