Sentences with phrase «about ancient rituals»

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Lured by untouched beaches, cheap camping and ancient ruins, travellers soon spread word about this secret paradise, and Tulum grew into a New Age mecca where hippies came to practise yoga, experiment with hallucinogens and purify themselves in Mayan sweat rituals.

Dwight clearly has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to «blood rituals,» but the sight of blood on fruit stirs an idea of something ancient and powerful in him.

For this aspect of tradition — the dimension of symbolic distinctiveness preserved in the ancient patterns of the worship and ritual life of the Church — is at least as central to Catholic identity as many of the doctrinal positions worried about by those who conceive of tradition primarily as a body of authoritative teaching.

There was nothing hazy about worship in the ancient Near East: the individual was constantly surrounded by cult and ritual.

Orlando's group examined DNA from the bones of 15 Iron Age stallions from the ancient Scythian civilization: Two stallions were from a 2,700 - year - old grave site in Russia and 13 were sacrificed in a burial ritual about 2,300 years ago in Kazakhstan.

Mummies, Tombs and Immortality Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt explores Egypt's burial rituals and beliefs about the afterlife through a vast collection of mummies and artifacts.

But after a former acolyte named Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen) steals a forbidden ritual from the Ancient One and goes rogue, amassing his own army of zealots to bring about world destruction, Strange must put aside his selfishness to help stop him.

The Scoobies arrive at their abattoir and promptly get naked enough to swim in the lake while, far beneath them in a secret underground bunker, pocket - shirts Sitterson (Richard Jenkins) and Hadley (Bradley Whitford) push levers, pull switches, and reveal that the whole movie is about the manipulation of an annual blood ritual sacrifice meant to appease Ancient Gods living in the abyss.

The Other Side of the Door is about a family who are able to use an ancient ritual to contact their young son who was killed in a tragic accident.

Inside you will read about... ✓ A Timeline for Ancient Egypt ✓ Historical Egypt ✓ The Myth Of Creation ✓ The Pantheon Of Gods ✓ Mythology In Day To Day Ancient Egypt ✓ The Central Role Of The Temple And Some Temple Rituals ✓ Sources Of The History Of Egyptian Mythology ✓ The Underworld And Life After Death ✓ Pyramids And Their Locations The book includes the myths of the creation in some detail and introduces the top Deities in a Pantheon of over two thousand God and Goddesses.

Considered to be the gateway to the Mayan World (El Mundo Maya), the area is home to many Mayan temples and ritual sites where you can learn about the ancient culture.

Combining installation, video and sculpture, her work focuses on nature and architecture to explore rituals in time, bridging contemporary and ancient ideas about the quotidian sublime.

«When I was at Chaco, I thought about ancient cultures, their rituals and structures, and I thought about how our lives are constructed now,» he says.

Eivissa, Spain About Blog Theatre of the Ancients is a performing arts company specialising in puppetry, folk theatre, storytelling, ritual theatre and ceremony.