The worshippers of Xipe Totec emerging from the rotting, flayed skin after twenty days symbolised rebirth and the renewal of the seasons, the casting off of the old and the growth of new vegetation.

' Soon after, on 23 September, Yom Kippur, a Jewish beadle introduced a screen to separate male and female worshippers at the Wall.

Muslim worshippers, after prayers on the esplanade of the Haram, passed through the narrow lane by the Wailing Wall and ripped up prayer books, and kotel notes ( wall petitions ), without harming however three Jews present.

It emerged in the late 1930s as a means of rousing worshippers after the fasting of Ramadan.

Suggestions ranged from dousing a household with Holy water, placing wax and herbs on thresholds to “ ward off witches occult ,” and avoiding certain areas of townships known to be frequented by witches and Devil worshippers after dark.

Immediately after the family funeral he storms into a nearby mosque and shoots several worshippers.

The young priest Nowakowski, a fiery orator, would tell the worshippers after prayers about the heroic deeds of our leaders.

Wearing a clean piece of clothing after the holy bath, worshippers carry pots of water to the temple to bathe the Shivalinga.

It is a percussion-based style that developed in the late 1930s, when it was used to wake worshippers after fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The worshippers then burn the incense paper and collect the food after worship.

Then worshippers as procession, use to brought it to Swamithoppe pathi on last Sunday of the Tamil Month of Karthigai and after completing it reading for seventeen days again return it to Thamaraikulam pathi and complete it by reading the rest in ten days.

The Vaidya Nanjundeswara, even today is said to be a healer for his believers, and one can see even today worshippers doing Urulu seve, a ritualistic practice after taking bath in the Kapila river.

Mumir Shah, the imam of the mosque, condemned the London bombings at Friday prayers a day after the attacks, telling worshippers " that all human beings are brothers because of our grandfather, Adam ( reported elsewhere as Abraham )" and that the message of Islam is one of " peace and friendship.

The area acquired a large Greek speaking community in the decades after World War II, mostly from Cyprus, and the church is still well used, though many of the worshippers now come from the outer suburbs of London.

His death at Avenger's hands ( after an unprovoked attack by Olvar ) leads to the feud between Avenger and the chaos worshippers.

A little later there are a number of figures of large-eyed priests and worshippers, mostly in alabaster and up to a foot high, who attended temple cult images of the deity, but very few of these have survived.

Suggestions by Livy that the Romans banned the rites because women occupied leadership positions in the cult have been dismissed by Celia Schultz, thus: In light of view of female religious activity ... and despite the claims of Livy's narrative, it is unlikely that the gender of worshippers involved was the primary motivation behind the Senate's action.

In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, Juiblex's cult has been subsumed by the worshippers of the Elder Elemental God Ghaunadaur, the deity of oozes and slimes.

As distinguished from a temple, a shrine usually houses a particular relic or cult image, which is the object of worship or veneration, or is constructed to set apart a site which is thought to be particularly holy, as opposed to being placed for the convenience of worshippers.

The game's protagonist is Caleb ( voiced by Stephan Weyte ), once the supreme commander of a cult called " The Cabal ", worshippers of the forgotten god Tchernobog ( voiced by Monolith CEO Jason Hall ).

They either soon withered and died, burnt out by the load they carried, like the elfqueen Aloevan of Ardeepor, or they thrived but were twisted and corrupted by their power, like the mage Sammaster, who began to think of himself as a god and set about building himself a cult of worshippers ( which survives today as the Cult of the Dragon ).

His greatest cult was centered in Faiyum, but his worshippers were also widely distributed in Dendera and Edfu.

Piecing together the clues – a jingling-bell sound made by the killer, a piece of cloth, and the blowpipe dropped at Waxflatter's murder scene – the trio uncover the existence of Rame Tep, an ancient Egyptian cult of Osiris worshippers.

Both groups catch Allenby, Ignatieff, and a cult of Kali worshippers in the middle of a cannibal sacrifice.

They called Indians " pagan worshippers in desperate need of Christianity and described the difficult task they faced in attempting to overthrow native religion and the peyote cult.

Murray's central thesis that images of the Devil were actually of deities and that Christianity had demonised these worshippers as following Satan, is first recorded in the work of Levi in the fashionable 19th-century Occultist circles of England and France.

Hindu temples began as simple shrines housing a deity and by the time of the Hoysalas had evolved into well articulated edifices in which worshippers sought transcendence of the daily world.

But it is also possible that such rites were performed to a local Baʿal Lord and a local ʿAshtart without much concern as to whether they were the same as that of a nearby community or how they fitted into the national theology of Yahweh who had become a ruling high god of the heavens, increasingly disassociated from such things, at least in the minds of some worshippers.

After Baruch Goldstein's massacre of Palestinians at the Mosque in Hebron, rabbi Arthur Waskow argued that Goldstein had decided to ' blot out the memory of Amalek ' by machine-gunning the Palestinian worshippers, and commented:

Unbeknownst to his worshippers, he is the last surviving member of the Insect Civilization, which had been destroyed by the Brunnen-G. That survivor ( correctly ) assumes that he will be more successful in wiping out humanity by getting it to destroy itself.

Bhakti poetry had two schools-the Nirguna school ( the believers of a formless God or an abstract name ) and the Saguna school ( the believers of a God with attributes and worshippers of Vishnu's incarnations ).

In Mecca, Dawud ibn Isa reminded worshippers that al-Amin had destroyed Harun ar Rashid's succession pledges and led them in swearing allegiance to al-Mamun.

Foreseeing her temporary loss of power due to the Time of Troubles, Lolth had asked the demon Errtu to protect her worshippers, should she herself fail to do it.

In addition, there had been a female-led Kabbalat Shabbat in a Washington Heights apartment in Manhattan — most of the worshippers came from the Yeshiva University community — in 1987 that drew little attention or opposition.

Jehonadab and his people had all along become worshippers of God.

Roquepertuse had no domiciles available for worshippers and has been used as a sanctuary where only priests may have lived permanently.

These gardens had large lakes with small islands, where musicians played during festivals and ceremonies worshippers could look across the water at the Buddha.

According to the theory, the Central Asian worshippers, who wanted to salute the omnipotence of the sun and its life-giving qualities, had done so by transforming their meaningless blabbering into a coherent set of ritual utterings, and language was born, hence the name.

It has been observed that nearly every high mountain top has had its own dedicated shrine at one point, with some receiving pilgrimages every year from thousands of worshippers.

McCoy does not understand why they all worship the Sun however, since, as he states ( incorrectly ), Ancient Rome " had no Sun worshippers.

The porches acted to give cover to worshippers, but they also had a liturgical use.

Hinduism became a more " intelligible and satisfying road to faith for many ordinary worshippers " than it had been because it now included not only an appeal to a personal god, but had also seen the development of an emotional facet with the composition of devotional hymns.

" Before Islamization of the region, the inhabitants of Khorasan had mostly practiced Zoroastrianism but at different stages there were also various adherents of Manichaeism, Sun worshippers ( Mithraism ), Nestorianism, Paganism, Shamanism, Buddhism and a small number of Jews too.

from trash dumps ; a large quantity of teak wood, black pepper, coconuts, beads made of precious and semi-precious stones, cameo blanks ; “ a Tamil Brahmi graffito mentioning Korra, a South Indian chieftain ”; evidence that “ inhabitants from Tamil South India ( which then included most of Kerala ) were living in Berenike, at least in the early Roman period ”; evidence that the Tamil population implied the probable presence of Buddhist worshippers ; evidence of Indians at another Roman port 300 km north of Berenike ; Indian-made ceramics on the Nile road ; a rock inscription mentioning an Indian passing through en route ; “ abundant evidence for the use of ships built and rigged in India ”; and proof “ that teak wood ( endemic to South India ), found in buildings in Berenike, had clearly been reused ”( from dismantled ships ).

It could seat 5, 000 worshippers and had superb acoustics.

There were also reports that he had thrown grenades at the worshippers.

At its height, the Poets Road Synagogue ( or as it was known the Dalston Synagogue despite the fact that it was not in Dalston ) had hundreds of worshippers and, for a short while in the 1950s, was the home of one of the worlds leading cantors, a member of the Kusevitsky family.

The NKT claimed that the Dalai Lama's remarks had inspired the harassment of Dorje Shugden worshippers among the Tibetan exile community in India.