Sentences with phrase «as sacred ritual»

He referred to this new body of work as «congregations» to reiterate his belief in art as sacred ritual.

After the revolution and Somoza's assassination, the prison was abandoned and used by pagan groups as a sacred ritual site.

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In its ritual function, etiquette serves the sacred, as a means of satisfying those of our spiritual needs that make us distinctly human.

In fact religion is commonly understood as consisting precisely (from our viewpoint) in such relatively trivial and non-essential elements — as for example, the precise acceptance of particular historic doctrines, the reverencing of sacred books, or the performance of specific ritual acts.

Very frequently, the priests said special prayers or required people to say special words when undergoing these sacred rituals, so that over time, people began to think that there was actual power in these rituals, so that the way they were done did not matter as much as simply doing them.

The primary purpose of the act was in defense of native American lands which they considered sacred as well as the use of peyote in their religious rituals.

This mosque was later regarded as so sacred that participation seven times there in the ritual worship of the Id al - Qurban, the festival associated with the annual pilgrimage, was believed to be equal to one pilgrimage to Mecca.

3 - 34, J) which «remembers» a ritual decalogue, and a somewhat later version (E, having its locus in the North, not the South as J) which associates the Ethical Decalogue with the covenant of the sacred mountain.

As I've embraced the liturgy and begun to recognize our needs for times of celebration and ritual, for the acknowledgment of what is significant in our years and weeks and days, I've come to see that space is sacred.

Today this bitter tea, also known as hoasca, has become the sacramental ritual of two modern religions in Brazil; one of them, the União do Vegetal (UDV) church, has invited McKenna, an expert on psychoactive plants, and other research teams, to scrutinise this sacred brew.

Regardless, as you begin to reassemble yourself through her stories, images, songs, rituals, and mantras, the wounded places in your own psyche begin to heal and you realize that indeed you are a sacred form of the Goddess.

Chihuahuas were used in the sacred rituals as they were considered holy in pre-Columbian Indian nations.

To describe, say, a painted prehistoric cave as a sacred space used for ritual is to beg more questions than it answers.

What we didn't realise is that apparently just above Peers Cave is a further cave known as the Cave of Ascension, supposed to be a ritual cave of fertility and rebirth, and held as sacred.

where you almost become one with nature while at the same time experiencing the mistry of the ancient Maya Underworld where the Mayas once performed many sacred rituals such as bloodletting and sacrifice to the gods.

We offer you an unforgettable tour where you almost become one with nature while at the same time experiencing the mistry of the ancient Maya Underworld where the Mayas once performed many sacred rituals such as bloodletting and sacrifice to the gods.

Where the literary proposals of the original mirrors for princes contemplate the divisions between self and other, male and female, sacred and profane, Slavs and Tatars» turn to everyday ritual casts governance as self - governance, a universe of ambiguities, or in their own words: «the heart and art of politics.»

In their efforts to reach a sacred sphere, they discover that they can merely mimic mystic rituals as in a game.

His paintings encapsulate the most recent stage of his style as it has evolved since 1987, three years after he «came in» from the remote desert to live in Papunya, an Indigenous settlement.4 Like other tribal elders with major ritual responsibilities, Warlimpirrnga creates «ground paintings» on the desert floor for sacred yet secret ceremonies.

Follow Hedy and Yumi into their Adventure in Intimacy workshops in Vancouver, Vienna and Israel where you will witness the transformation of couples as they are «Crossing the Bridge» to each other, an intimate ritual designed to eliminate the emotional pollution that exists in the «sacred space» of our relationships.