Sentences with phrase «ancient cults with»

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``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

But if enough time is not available, a basic course could be worked out on a typological basis in which one primitive cult, one of the ancient religions of the Near East and the two great competitors of Christianity — Islam and Buddhism — could be dealt with.

She's been going with from place to place, school to school, in an effort to stay one step ahead of an ancient cult that's been pursing them for years.

He plotted to usurp then throne with the outlawed White Gorilla cult who was ancient rivals of the Black Panther cult, which basically made them heretics since Panther worship is the state religion.

Dracula still at large in 1930s India, combining forces with an ancient Indian blood cult which preys on victims in secret ancient caverns beneath an ancient palace.

Indeed, it's believed that the rite originated with the ancient Thracian peoples of Greece as part of their cult of sun worship.

In one mode, we see players battling in a gladiatorial arena with melee weapons against a swarm of zombies that seem to have been summoned by an ancient sun - worshipping Egyptian cult.

Deeply embedded in the complexities of ancient myth, the Three Graces were written of by such colossal figures as Homer and Pausanius, and were associated with both the Elusian Mysteries and the cult of the Oracle of Delphi.

Drawing on the Smart Museum's permanent collection, with selected loans from the University of Chicago's Library and the Oriental Institute, this intimate exhibition examines the Renaissance fascination with wings as symbols of speed and power through the influential histories of flight derived from the bird cult of Horus in ancient Egypt to the circulation of winged creatures in prints by Albrecht Dürer and others.

With their suggestive stumps and nooks, his trees might have been worshipped by an ancient fertility cult.