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Religion, with its belief in watchful gods and extravagant rituals and practices, has been a social glue for most of human history.

I seemed to see it all so clearly, the rituals and tonalities of that old world.

He had been a photojournalist then, charged with the unhappy task of filming the mating rituals of hippos.

The pod was often represented in religious rituals, including marriage ceremonies, and was referred to as food of the gods.

To some people, Christianity seems to be a set of rules and rituals, a faith filled more with bad news than good news.

It has always been valued for its fragrance and its resistance to insects and grew to be a vital accessory in Hindu rituals.

His major subjects are the domestic life of the American middle-class and its attendant rituals marriage, sex, child-rearing, and divorce.

Monks, however, do not normally perform sacramental rituals for the laity, and would not normally officiate at baptisms and marriages.

The German custom covered with a sacred aura by means of the rituals, as a result increasing its force ad effect.

And so I've decided to share with you some of my favorite mindfulness rituals to help you appreciate every moment.

Finally he decided that he would pretend he was a prospective believer and attend one of the Protestant's most frequent rituals: a potluck*.

I was the head winemaker, and this early stroll through the vineyards was one of my favorite rituals.

Rituals and ceremonies as a paramount sign of culture for us to known, the speaker's point of contention might have merits in two respects.

But we also engaged in human sacrifice, our women were warriors, and head-hunting was one of our favorite rituals.

Though known as a devout Hindu, Gandhi rarely visited temples, and was generally repelled by the rituals and customs of organized religion.

His affiliation with the Jewish people was the strongest bond in his life, even though he did not adhere to the rituals of the religion.

To understand our culture is not easy. In addition, it is often difficult to recognize rituals within our own culture.

By means of describing twelve rituals of selling blood, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant abstracts the whole life of an idiot Xu Sanguan.

One of the great joys of Little Deadman's Cay was that there were no local rituals or folkways to observe, no minders to look after.

A-bing : He's tattooed. Tattooing was one of our initiation rituals. So was tooth-filing.

To me, religion has always been belief in God, with the whole complex of dogmas, rituals, traditions and ideals that go with it.

Hence the popularity of the new voodoo, which claims, as I said, that elaborate financial rituals can reanimate dead banks.

By creating rituals for certain events they become so much a part of your everyday life they don't feel like a hassle.

Graves, groves, even caves might become shrines or places for ceremonies and rituals, to which people would make a pilgrimage.

He never instructed those who came to him to practice any rites or rituals, any empty formalities.

The thing is, when you put "Catholic" and "gay wedding" together, you come out with one inevitable conclusion: an extravaganza of rituals.

If you think the mating rituals at your local singles bar are strange, ha-ha! Wait till you get a load of black widow spiders!

We know there were all sorts of rituals and ceremonies involving pots in the time of the Jomon.

Scientists are trying to figure out why even the skeptics among us cling to lucky numbers, special game-day clothing and other odd rituals.

Elijah did not need wild rituals, fancy words, or vivid mental images to get God's attention. He prayed a simple prayer to the one true God.

Divas of the avian world, elaborately feathered birds of paradise, like this ribbon-tailed species, practice elaborate courtship rituals.

Some of the chimps even appear to dance themselves into a trance-like state, as some humans do during religious and cultural rituals.

Satanic rituals are often performed in a natural setting like this, but this fence is a poor altar.

The word Tantra refers specifically to a series of esoteric Hindu books that describe certain sexual rituals, disciplines, and meditations.

In New Delhi a man dives into a polluted section of the Yamuna River to search of coins left by Hindu rituals conducted at the river's edge.

It used to be the time where only kings wore a leopard skin, but now throughout rituals and ceremonies, traditional healers and ministers.

Pilgrims perform a series of rituals including walking around the Kaaba, standing vigil on Mount Arafat and a ritual Stoning of the Devil.

Bridegrooms and the Brides were dressed up in red finery and ancient rituals were performed during the ceremony.

The various gods, the various rituals, the whole movement of man in time is in the background of every human being.

Still, in all my years of witnessing Vodou rituals, I've never seen a sacrifice as intense as the one that I documented in June.

Dongba writing system used to be a set of symbols for helping Dongbas record religious rituals.

Picking up litter is only one of an endless supply of possible helping rituals.

the rituals known as male bonding do not necessarily involve drinking beer together.

Gongfu Cha is the drink of daily life in a ceremony communication is still rise to a lot of rituals and customs.

Since some people do not understand the culture connotation of celestial burial, they make improper comments on its unique ways and rituals.

If one could deduce the enemy's daily rituals, one could easily gain the upper hand when planning sabotage.

So the key is to choose the right rituals, the ones that are not harmful -- but rituals by themselves are not to be dismissed.

they are typically stepped pyramids and are topped by a platform or temple structure used for rituals, including human sacrifice.

When we use the word religion we do not mean the nonsense of belief, rituals, dogma and hierarchical structure.

Cumbria isn't alone in trying to protect its local rituals from the outside world.

Their top players told the German fans' website the rituals they need to experience before running out to represent their country.

I hope you know I can gift, understand ceremony, the rituals, the etiquette of civilization flourish.

To a psychologist, lots of human rituals look a lot like the automatic behaviours developed by Skinner's pigeons or Dickinson's rats.

Regardless of their country of origin, American Muslims observe Ramadan with a set of traditional rituals.

In the long run, traditions and rituals tend to help sustain happiness and family bonds.

Rituals of that kind provide the pattern for the emergence of culture as continuous self-differentiation.

We tend to be only subconsciously aware, if at all, of the various patterns and rituals of social behavior.

In practice, the tension between our obligation to inform and the government's obligation to protect plays out in a set of rituals.

Evidence of their settlement is found in the remains of intricately patterned pottery used for rituals.

The archaeologists found no pottery, ornaments or paved surfaces which might be suggestive of formal graves or burial rituals.

Take care with the rituals of your life--the preparation of food, making your bed, bathing, dressing, phone calls to your friends or family.

Hinduism also has specific rituals for a death anniversary. A ceremony called shraddha takes place annually on the death of an ancestor.

Gordon: Anything for you. It would be my pleasure to teach you about wedding rituals.

Through rituals and ceremonies, students expressed their appreciation, respect and gratitude to the body donors.

The practice of using charms, spells, or rituals to attempt to produce supernatural effects or control events in nature.

Today, there are still descendents of the Jews in Kaifeng, but they do not observe the Jewish conventions or rituals any more.

Touch needs to be a part of the family's daily bonding, as well as their greeting and parting rituals.

December rituals are similar in millions of households around the U.

performing numerous ostentatious rituals productive of good birth, wealth and power insuring sense enjoyment and worldly pleasures.

There was something about performing rituals of domination and submission that made her feel more real, she added.

It should, therefore, be possible to observe whether group rituals do improve co-operation, based on the behaviour of men and women.

Rituals remain one of the most powerful practices of spontaneous spreading of the power from the top.

The bronze ornaments may be the hanging decorations of the divine tree used in the sacrificial rituals.

Sofitel offers the best of French elegance, from food and wine rituals to bedding, design and personal care products.

Traditional rituals of life in ancient China, nurture the main way of individual character.

Chinas foreign ministry Thursday said such an arrangement would violate Tibetan religious rituals and historic conventions.

They have created a world governed by Satanic Rituals, dressed up to look innocent, so as to hide their evil intent.

One of the powerful ways of invoking their divine presence is through the performance of rituals.

The ceremony, at a Hindu temple in Orissa state's Jajpur district, was conducted with all the rituals observed at traditional weddings.

The myths and rituals of her time had been dispensed with.

Those rituals begin to desensitize the very impressionable and afraid youth to what it's like to be in the Lord's Resistance Army.

It were Charles Darwin who first suggested dance were part of courtship rituals, event confirmed in nightclubs eVery abundance weekend.

"Gossip Girl" borrows the rituals and tempestuous dialogue of the soap opera genre and puts it to a Facebook beat.

According to Wiccan rituals, placing holly or other greens in the shape of a circle or wreath accentuated its magical power.

China knows the Dalai Lama's meetings with other world leaders are symbolic rituals that do not affect policy.

The Roots, Rituals and Rhetorics of Change describes the revolution in business education that took place in the 1950s and 1960s.

On Chhath, an ancient Hindu festival, rituals are performed to thank the Sun God for sustaining life on earth.

Here are a few morning rituals that will start your day on the right foot for years to come.

In rituals prefiguring Catholic Mass, the faithful then ate the "body" of their god to nourish their souls.

Each temple would have had additional rituals during the month.

different rituals - Catholic, and all the rest of it.

However, as times change, people's thinking changes, the most traditional, one of the oldest rituals has been gradually be forgotten!

Real compassion doesn't arise from believing in God, from practicing various rituals, or from studying the concept of karma.

Black Furies: As divisive as they are, they work together in their tribal rituals. If only I knew what they were doing there.

Escort Chinese visitors to the airport and bring them as close to the gate as possible. Airport rituals are highly appreciated.

Dr Neave's aim was to establish whether young men exhibited the same courtship movement rituals in night clubs as animals do in the wild.

They are used as a universal currency in prisons around the world, as post sex rituals, as part of magic tricks, as conversation starters. .

It was Charles Darwin who first suggested dance was part of courtship rituals, something confirmed in nightclubs every weekend.

Elsewhere, others are viewing the rituals as a real business opportunity.

Why do some religions have rituals that are so much more traumatic than others?

Rituals for the dead are "hooks on which to hang our behaviour" , says Ms Murray.

Rituals anchor holidays, and give kids a sense of continuity and a tradition they can pass on for years to come.

One of my favorite ways to do this is by developing my own helping rituals.

As the myth age goes down and the art becomes matured, the rituals are replaced by the art of drama.

Some historians believe that Stonehenge was a temple, the site of ancient sacrifices and rituals.

Just as Ding Guangxun said, "China has a long civilization and is well known for its morals and rituals. "

Here wearing the mask is one of the Nuo rituals(nuo, to exorcise evil spirits).

As symbols of peace and auspicious animals, elephants were often used in imperial rituals or ceremonies in ancient China.

Roman reports of the rituals of Cybele record that the son. . . was first tied to a tree and then buried.

The family wanted to adhere to religious rituals of washing the body and watching over it for three days.

This is referred to as the Confucian Road "music rituals" of the theme.

The cheater too is autonomous: he establishes a law, his own law, against the arbitrary rituals of the rule - this is what disqualifies him.

of Yi ethnic group, takes the responsibilities for hosting religious rituals, and is the most educated group in traditional Yi society.

TIME, again, for the rituals of the British summer getaway.

But he also reminded me that these were rituals, not murder and mayhem.

Sumo, with its complex purification rituals, was both sport and religion.

Craggy mountains , dark forests and roiling mists are perfect for a Shadow Lord's rituals and meditations .

Along the way he cites an eclectic library of consolation: Homer, the "Mahabharata, " Native American rituals, medieval sagas.

Ceng Yin encouraged Chen Xiang to please each other rituals, town major Mammon for him to solve difficult point.

Religious practice will experience a revival, seen as a conveyor of robust heuristics, cultural values and rituals.

A magic site with Conjuration Bonus makes it possible to cast conjuration rituals in that province for a reduced cost.

The only facet of Abyssin life not ruled by violence is their courting and mating rituals.

We hold cultural festivals throughout the galaxy which display the various dances, chants, and rituals unique to each star-nation.

Several people went to consult with a condolence, but there is not clear condolence rituals. One of them claimed to know a slightly.

They believe the lumps of pigment were heated in hearths to achieve a specific hue of scarlet and then used in funerary rituals.

Special rituals and celebrations were held to welcome back the sun.

And rituals can be repetitive - although the frequency of repetition varies enormously.

Students interviewed here said they believed their mating rituals reflected those of college students anywhere.

Yeah, and there will also be sacrifices to gods or ancestors, or tomb sweeping rituals.

It is at this stage that Ewoks learn the many rituals and legends that will serve as moral guides in their lives.

A prospective Demon Hunter must seek out an existing Demon Hunter, who will lead him or her through a series of complex magical rituals.

Parts of the Veda are still quoted in essential Hindu rituals , and it is the source of many enduring patterns of Hindu thought.

Besides these, some discussions and analyses about the institutions on etiquettes and rituals can be found in the article.

But it's not a matter of knowing all the conventions and rituals in different cultures.

You probably perform dozens of small rituals already, whether you realize it or not.

Apart from any specific office rituals, gift exchanges among co-workers are the same as gift exchanges among friends.

The modern dating game is highly complex and courting rituals can be a minefield.

"It's quite a big mystery. Obviously we know (it is) being used for rituals. "

Will the nonsupport of the unique ceremonies and rituals of one's society cause the loss of one's sense of collective belonging ?

Rituals, instruments, conversation, good and bad manners is to give people the impression sources.

The Great Mother does not have regular priests who officiate at rituals, lead the faithful, gain spells through prayer, and the like.

The same superstition neither a common object of worship, there is no established purpose, rules or rituals, nor is there a common venue.

French cuisine stresses atmosphere and rituals, especially, the combination of different dishes and different wines.

Consistency builds Trust, Trust creates History, History forms Traditions, and Traditions become Rituals.

Social rituals have initially emanate from dietary habits and repeated themselves along with the transformation in the dietetic structure.

Their individual and social identities were informed by participating in rituals and traditions rather than by reflection.

Other rituals include phone calls, going for walks, bringing home pleasant surprises, doing the dishes or reading the newspaper together.

Never have the summit rituals looked so hollow, for the G20 utterly failed to yield a solution to the eurozone crisis.

There were community celebrations. There was worship and rituals within temples.

Halloween was associated with divinatory rituals, omens that foretold marriages or deaths, and premonitory dreams.

Memorialists are committed to preserving the memory of their loved ones by creating concrete memorials and rituals to honor them.

The celebration dates back to Celtic rituals, where people tried to scare away spirits.

Despite the orgiastic rituals once held at the Arc du Carrousel, art aficionados revered this place for another reason entirely.

Society gives us language, a worldview, an identity, a set of rules and rituals to live by.

He drank, and silently busied himself with the complex rituals of a pipe smoker.

Skin moisturizers are advertised as part of morning beauty rituals, slipped in between hair brushing and putting on makeup.

Along with Christmas rituals, old and perhaps new, it will also help throughout the year to stick to normal routines as much as possible.

It is one of the rituals of American capitalism.

The rituals and celebrations of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit are attended by thousands of people.

How did the gods and rituals brought by the Aryans blend with native religions to produce classical Hinduism?

The folk funeral rituals in Taiwanese tradition inherit Confucianism rituals and are combined with Taoism funeral rituals.

Many traditional rituals connected with seasonal and family events are still alive - and celebrated with songs, dances and music.

The accent lies on gentle love, compassion, broad vision, law, higher education, publishing, far travel and cultural rituals.

With "primary day-to-day code of conduct" and "rituals of conventional primary and secondary school students" to spur and restrain himself.

include Early on, sumo was incorporated into Shinto purification rituals, after which it became court entertainment.

Sanskrit is mostly used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals in the forms of hymns and mantras.

To sum up, the main religious practices witchcraft, religious taboos, sacrifice, prayer, religious rituals and so on.

Although there's a lot to see, make sure you don't take photos of rituals taking place, as this is strictly prohibited.

The belief in fabulous creatures, in ancient rituals and ceremonies, in magic practices and gestures is till vivid in the Romanian village.

Rituals are for practitioners to approach, there is no guarantee that practitioners can achieve it at once.

These powerful and elaborate rituals invoke the divine; affect the mind, body and spirit of the participant.

On the island of New Guinea, birds have plenty of food, giving them time for elaborate mating rituals.

Regulates behavior by shared values, norms, traditions, rituals, and beliefs of the firm' s culture.

If what the pictographs indicate are true, His loud voice interrupted their ancient prayer rituals for an entire week.

It's rumored that there were satanic rituals held upstairs, leaving angry spirits to roam the premises.

Here, traditions and rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing.

Mr Ahmed found that endangered owls are being caught, traded or sacrificed in black magic rituals, while others are killed for medicine.

You clearly enjoyed those rituals, and over the years they provided you with many happy memories.

But magical thinking underlies a vast, often unseen universe of small rituals that accompany people through every waking hour.

Hindu, Muslims, Buddhists use sandalwood powder as incense in their religious ceremonies and rituals.

Some rituals can help a sportsperson to relax and get "in the zone" as part of a well-established routine before and during a big game.

Study shows that family-based human consumption is expressed through life ritual, festive ceremony and the non-situational rituals.

Quarren have the ability to change the color of their leathery skin, but this is usually only demonstrated during mating rituals.

Whitehouse argues that to persist and spread, a religion must elicit the help of rituals that reinforce memories in both these systems.

Looming food shortages and famine hitting Uganda's poorest in the north and east are also feeding the demand for sacrificial rituals.

Although Jewish by cultural designation and kindred instinct, they displayed scant interest in the religion or its rituals.

This study focuses on revealing the grief counseling and life education after the combination of folk funeral rituals and Taoism rituals.

As time passed some rituals were abandoned , but the stories , later called myths , persisted and provided material for art and drama .

Problems arise, however, when coworkers use different rituals and fail to recognize the appropriate category of talk.

At last, in Lord of the Flies, many concrete archetypes are available, ranging from water, fire, to even rituals.

Hindu woman performs rituals after bathed in the River Ganges as part of the Kumbh Mela Festival in India.

In the spirit of setting up family rituals from day one, we enrolled our eldest son in swimming lessons when he was 6 months old.

Men are so often silent, solitary mourners who immerse themselves in activity and private, symbolic rituals.

These rituals aren't the only time you should be mindful, but they're great reminders.

The reason why the paper is red, or why in early days red thread was used, rather than white, green, or black, is from religious rituals.

Intact Ahrensburgian reindeer skeletons with arrowheads in their chests suggest some animals were sacrificed during rituals.

Though they are now associated with Easter, pysanky were an integral part of spring rituals prior to the advent of Christianity.

The rituals surrounding smoking must also be mimicked, he says.

Since Wiccan worship is fairly active by its nature, non-participating observers are rarely invited to Wiccan rituals.

We must face the fact that taboos of all sorts, social conventions, rituals, cultural ceremonies. . . restrict and move our minds.

Everything came under suspicion, from dress to customs to festivals, marriage rituals and literature.

Also, Muslims are very religious people and perform rituals many times a day.

Other biblical prophets pointed out that priests had started worshiping idols in the temple and engaging in pagan rituals.

These are thought of as family rituals rather than religious ones, although the participants may visit the temple later for a blessing.

In keeping with this belief, they laid great emphasis on dharma, which they understood as the performance of Vedic rituals.

It refers to a range of rituals which mark the state change in one's life, such as the birth, adolescence, marriage and death.

Take knocking on wood, thought to date back to pagan rituals aimed at eliciting help from powerful tree gods.

and spiritual and material sacrifices to dead relatives or friends were traditional Chinese rituals.

"Every candidate spent money on pujas and rituals, " said K. N. Somayaji, an astrologer and Brahman priest in Bangalore.

This tradition is also believed to come from the Thracians who may have danced similarly during Dionysian rituals.

For the first two weeks of May work with endings through closure rituals, forgiveness, and practice compassion.

The history of the nuptial pastry, though, is even stranger than these modern rituals suggests.

Once the quaint rituals are over, a month of intensive campaigning will follow.

All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.

Nonetheless, he soon managed to reestablish the old order and old rituals in the Zurich flat. ?

But the Internet, and troubled times, have given rituals once performed only in backwoods cabins or shabby urban shops a new life.

Their drinking rituals are for the drinking culture to better appreciate the delicious made.

Then is the saints' instituting of rituals and rites founded on the heavenly mandate or any universal principles?

This has fundamentally scrambled the courtship rituals and decreased the pressure to get married.

Oswald explores the use of rituals as spiritually healing practices for the home, congregation, and broader community.

Many of the customs and rituals of this tribe were as old as the hills they dwelt among.

Many of the early communal rituals have lost their significance in modern urban settings.

Many rituals revolved around increasing or restoring one's 'mojo' -- energy, power and sexual prowess.

Hence filial piety is combined with rituals as Pietyrite which serves as the logic origin of the culture.

Of course, one can still advance in Dhyana through familiarity with this kind of rituals.

These little rituals just like brushing your teeth before bed become semi-automated and help to keep your life under control.

Long weekends are great but societies are kept together with shared traditions and rituals, not by long weekends.

Japan's twenty and thirty something males seem disinterested in careers and apathetic about the rituals of dating, sex and marriage.

The basic goal of Dong Zhongshu's five elements theory is to demonstrate the rationality of the real rituals.

Rituals of Han Dynasty are a deduction model based on phenomenal study of changes, among which Kanyu is a typical one.

The pagan festival, which has roots in Celtic fertility rituals, also features drummers and acrobats.

Rituals are repetitive, predictable exchanges of low intensity strokes.

Indeed many great performers aren't even consciously aware that's what they've done. They've built their rituals intuitively.

an offensive term for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church.

Mourning rituals in the animal kingdom have also been observed in whales, elephants, chimps and gorillas.

The past is cultivated through rituals, through the so-called sacred books, through religious propaganda.

One must have help - the rituals, the guidance of those who know.

These rituals subject children to further violence and abuse and have become a lucrative business for some pastors.

Ah, you're just in time. The rituals are about to begin.

Marriage and funeral rites, and shamanist rituals for curing illnesses, survive.

They are both great ways to practice mindfulness, and can be great rituals performed each day.

Faith is dying here, even while massive churches perform rituals for the desperate.

Holiday rituals give children points in the year to look forward to.

There has been much research on the powerful functions of political rituals to mobilize people into social movements.

Some last a single day; others go on for many days with rounds of rituals and entertainment.

A set of imperial court tea-drinking rituals were thus formed.

An atmosphere of hedonism pervaded the house; Parsons hosted gatherings involving "sex magick" rituals.

Rituals also have an emotional aspect - ranging from a comforting feeling of security or togetherness to extreme terror.

When guests leave, what parting expressions, physical contact (hugging, etc. ), and other rituals are common?

The ancestors also taught me beautiful rituals to aid me in my times of struggle and to anchor sacred space.