Sentences with phrase «as sacred rites»

The calendar, architecture, stone carving, urban planning, as well as sacred rites relating to the ceremonial ball games, the jaguar cult and spiritual value of jade, were important cultural contributions that the Olmecs passed onto subsequent civilizations like the Mayan and Toltecs.

Canaanite worship of the forces of life meant public immorality as a sacred rite and commonly of a disgusting depravity.

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As the initiate stood in the central pool, he or she could also look up at thestarry sky depicted on the ceiling, recalling the cosmic significance of the sacred rite.

Early stories such as the encounter with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in which this dread of holy things and places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in sacred rites and customs.

«The Minister is an Igbo and knows full well that just as a count is not taken of the number of children a parent is blessed with in Igbo tradition, the same tradition holds the burial rites and attendant expenses even more sacred to warrant such display of figures.