Sentences with phrase «archaic rituals»

Speaker John Bercow is well aware of the reputation of PMQs and he is currently drafting proposals to remove its most farcical and archaic rituals.

My anti-theist view is NOT based on archaic rituals and supernaturalism that has no evidence whatsoever of reality.

You also could be wrong about the value of all the man - made, archaic rituals you perform to please your god.

Have we not learned in our century that the great poets are mythmakers or myth - transformers, that the forms of poetry are transmutations of archaic ritual forms, and that the poet symbol is an interiorization or a revalorization of the religious symbol?

With his sonic kinetic sculpture Gamelatron Cemerlang (Indonesian: Bright, Slang: Bling), Kuffner turns an Indonesian folk object, the gong, into «bling», and re-contextualizes the ancient archaic ritual tradition to envelop the audience with his sculptures.

With four Single Tone Mindfulness Sculptures installed in the Chimney's windows, Aaron Taylor Kuffner turns an Indonesian object of antiquity, the gong, into robotic sound producing sculptures, and re-contextualizes the archaic ritual tradition to envelop the audience.

Beginning with low - resolution images found on the Internet of veterinarians rescuing sick wolves, Perrone transforms what would be an empathetic situation into an imaginary history — a terrifying, archaic ritual.

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For archaic man the only reality is the sacred reality of which he becomes a part through myth and ritual.

The characteristic orientation of the myths and rituals of archaic religion, he notes, is toward a primordial time and a primordial reality.

The latter, particularly, points to a religious or ritual function to these carvings, and indeed to the practice of a form of «shamanism» — that is, an archaic magical or religious belief system which sought connections between the visible and spirit worlds, and which ascribes spiritual properties to animals and natural forces.

In the same sale, the world auction record for an archaic bronze was set when the bronze ritual wine vessel, fangzun, from the late Shang dynasty, sold for $ 37,207,500.

A new world auction was set for an archaic bronze with the sale of a magnificent and highly important bronze ritual wine vessel, Fangzun (late Shang dynasty, 13th - 11th century BC), which realised $ 37,207,500 / HK$ 287,756,347 in New York on March 15.

It is paired with an enormous archaic bronze Ding vessel of the Late Spring and Autumn period (770 - 481 BC), which may have been used for mountaintop ritual sacrifices appeasing deceased ancestors and bringing good fortune to the living.

A religous ritual comes to mind, from an archaic past...

But make sure you don't have to go through some archaic hazing ritual that will not make for a great resume bullet.