Sentences with phrase «in ancient cults»

This fascinating and up - to - date account unravels the current debate about the relationship of dogs and wolves, and explores dogs in mythology, religion and in ancient cults.

And yes, I do think that following and believing in this ancient cults is STUPID, and you all are the proof of that.

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What it's about: Indiana Jones stumbles upon an Indian village desperate to rescue their children from a nearby cult that sacrifices them in an ancient catacomb.

For example, during a very brief period in 1952 - 53, a new cult called Massa made inroads among the Senufo, destroying Poro objects and disrupting ancient Poro rituals.

Who cares about palm frods and UN membership, these ancient cults are overbreeding in deserts that can not sustain them, and SOON, neither can anyone else.

``... [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.»

In general, I don't care what a candidates cult affiliation is unless he seems to be the type of cult member that will want to press his cults ancient (or not so ancient) beliefs on others through the force of law.

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.

In a poem by C. Day Lewis, an aged priest of an ancient cult tells a young priest not to worry about the results of his sacrifice.

On the other hand, IF your translation was correct (of which I have my doubts) I would still have grounds to reject your conclusions on the basis of pederasty, cult prostitution, and slave sexual exploitation, which were quite common in the Ancient world.

I think it started in the Western world when the Romans conquered ancient Judea (part of Israel) and granted the Jews an exemption to worshiping the cult of the Roman emperor.

A comparable view sees the Song as an ancient Tammuz liturgy from the Adonis cult, originating in and borrowed from an early Canaanite fertility cult.

JT, as long as there are fools that follow that ancient cult, we'll have chaos in this world.

22:6 f.); and of course that familiar ancient cult law prohibiting the seething of a kid in its mother's milk (Exod.

You will not find Jesus in the cults books or even in the ancient religions... you will find demons there.

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

But let me go back once more to ancient Israel: From the earliest layers of the biblical traditions to the most recent ones, the spokesmen of the God of the covenant violently repudiated the cult of sacred sexuality in all its forms.

Astarte (for convenience» sake, I'll use the Hellenized version of her name) was a key figure in the cult of sacred sexuality that was central to the religious life of the ancient Semites.

It forms an early and discerning protest against the powerful and perennial tendency in every cult, ancient or modern, so to proliferate, so to elaborate, so to glorify the total «equipment» of worship as to make of worship's material representation an end in itself.

The character of ancient thought entailed that the basic dualism of man's existence should express itself in mythology, and this, in turn, in cult.

Once again, using descriptions found in the OT, the author argues that it was not only the old Covenant that was defective, but the whole of the ancient cult was ineffective.

This is an early and discerning protest against the perennial tendency in every cult, ancient and modern, to elaborate the «equipment» of worship so as to make of the material representation of worship an end in itself.

Cult prostitution, scattered idolatrous sanctuaries, the practice of child sacrifice, and all objects and manifestations of astral worship (ancient Babylonian in origin, taken over by Assyria) are abolished.

Add an enigmatic, neo-Pythagorean cult that is scouring the world for the reincarnation of The Master, his identity revealed only in an ancient document now in pieces, and voila, you have a mathematical thriller.

The question goes back to the ancient Greek cult of the Pythagoreans, who found that if two strings of the same type and tension have lengths in a simple ratio, such as 2:1 or 3:2, they produce notes that, together, sound unusually harmonious.

Unprecedented discoveries at the Brochtorff Circle have encouraged us to reconsider the whole basis of ancient cults and religions in prehistoric Malta and Gozo.

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.

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.

In it, Lara also goes searching for her father, only to encounter a sinister cult and an ancient mystery, forcing her to basically become a badass to survive.

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 culIn 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 culin a gladiatorial arena with melee weapons against a swarm of zombies that seem to have been summoned by an ancient sun - worshipping Egyptian cult.

The evolution of eSports in Southeast Asia has brought about cult - like status for pro gamers and teams, and enthusiasts are embracing competitions for games such as League of Legends, Overwatch and Defense of the Ancients 2 in many countries.

Representing their immensely popular Dragon Slayerseries and serving as a spiritual follow - up to the late «80s cult classic Faxanadu, Xanadu Next puts the player in the shoes of a gravely injured knight given a new lease on life through ancient magic, who must now seek a legendary sword called «Dragon Slayer» to ensure his survival.

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.

Following a period of research, while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas developed new subject matter including the famed Night Climbers of Cambridge, a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the university and town, taking photographs while trying to avoid detection, gained them a cult following during the early decades of the twentieth century.

Following a period of research while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas has developed new subject matter including the famed «Night Climbers of Cambridge», a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the university and town, taking photographs while trying to avoid detection, gained them a cult following during the early decades of the 20th Century.

Rather, it is to be celebrated, made visible and exalted, much in the same way the cults of the ancients did.