Sentences with phrase «shrines serve»

Shrines serve two main functions.

Mr. Tordue Gber (Tiv Swem) acts as spiritual counselor that provides Gana with «diabolical» powers and the shrine serves as hideout for wanted armed militia, meeting and planning point for operations and logistics base for the criminal armed militias that operate in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba States.

This shrine serves as a place for placing additional offering which is offered on Galungan day.

This shrine serves as a combat tutorial, and will teach advanced techniques such as Perfect Dodge and Perfect Guard.

The shrine serves as the location where the Six Orbs must be brought and placed on the alter in order to hatch the egg.

Not exact matches

I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.

So understood, the absence of his corpse serves to invite the living into deeper reflection about and gratitude for the «heavenly shrines» who, Newman incants, «yet live to God.»

Anywhere you look around the Capital area, you can spot these office shrines that are staffed to the top with analysts and executives that have one purpose and one purpose only - serve their consituencies and by that is meant, get them the most that you can from the government.

To the opponent, Onjeh is too «small» to serve as a Senator in Idoma political shrine.

The Last Screening (10:15 p.m. Saturday, March 17) posits a small - town movie projectionist who divides his time between serving up the visual and aural splendors of Jean Renoir's French Cancanand stalking local females for a grisly shrine to his late, quite mad mom.

Mary sneaks away as often as she can to be with Robert (Aidan Gillen), a writer whose bedroom serves as a pitiful shrine to himself, the walls adorned with taped - up newspaper mentions (one reads: «Glimpses of Lives»).

The family needed to bring a female child to serve at the shrine.

Whatever the supposed reason for the women serving at the shrine, despite their being sometimes loftily called «wives of the gods,» they were the source of all Togbe's plenty, and that made life very good for him.

Visit the old palace that once served as a getaway for King Rama V; wander past the Chinese shrines in picturesque fishing villages; and finish with a seafood feast that will cost a fraction of what you'll pay on the touristy islands.

There is a hidden shrine You can climb, or better said crawl up the famous mountain known as Huayna Picchu; yes, that pointy one serving as a backdrop on every classic Machu Picchu postcard.

Furthermore, the Shrines in Zelda not only serve as a teleportation point for quick travel but also as a puzzle in order to get orbs which allow Link to power - up.

Link's stamina and hearts are increased by clearing shrines, mini-dungeons — which also serve as warping points — that center around puzzle - solving or combat.

Similar to Apple Pay, the Slate also has a tap - to - authenticate function that allows Link to enter Shrines and such, and which could also allow it to serve as some kind of digital wallet.

It serves as a commentary on how we venerate pop culture, consuming and building collections of merchandise like a shrine.

A polished bronze warrior figure with quilts wrapped around its base serves as a kind of shrine in the rear gallery, while the video installation «Infinite Tabernacle» captures a wax African - style figurine being blown apart (more precisely, by bullets).

This sculpture is directly inspired by the imagery of the chromolithograph, which to this day often serves as the central image in shrines devoted to Mami Wata all across the Black Atlantic world, from Nigeria to Haiti and beyond.

Her brightly patterned ceramic animal sculptures act as shrines for spirits to incarnate and serve as safeguards — offering soul protection to those passing through Stern's experiential world.

The dressing - table installation is a shrine for worship and desire, a place to refashion the self with wigs and potions, a site to honor a pantheon of heroines: Nina Simone, whose record serves as a clock - face high on the wall; Betye Saar, whose assemblages using racist relics underlie Gaignard's black princess figurines; and the lineage of female artists who have made the dressing table a studio for the sculpting of fictitious personas — Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman Leeson and Sherman.