Sentences with phrase «initiation ceremony»

In the ancient accounts, young warriors assumed names containing words for dogs or wolves, wore dog or wolf skins and, in some cases, ate dogs during initiation ceremonies.

These men would have directed initiation ceremonies into war bands, Anthony says.

Still, highly rousing, traumatic rituals might still feature as initiation ceremonies, because people tend to be more committed to a religion and tolerant of its failings after paying a high price for entry.

Downing Street has dismissed claims that David Cameron «inserted a private part of his anatomy» into a dead pig's mouth in a bizarre student initiation ceremony.

The explorer, from London, has previously crossed the Amazon Basin on foot and in a dug - out canoe, and participated in a six - week male initiation ceremony in which crocodile marks were carved onto his body.

The second initiation ceremony was held, again before the altar in the church, and even more solemn moments.

Another composition apparently depicting a female initiation ceremony is found in a KwaZulu - Natal Drakensberg site.

This type of initiation ceremony coincides with myths recorded in texts from as early as roughly 2,000 years ago by speakers of Indo - European languages across Eurasia, the researchers report in the December Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

Remains of at least two Late Bronze Age initiation ceremonies, in which teenage boys became warriors by eating dogs and wolves, have turned up in southwestern Russia, two archaeologists say.

In perhaps the most revealing moment of John Trengove's The Wound, a band of young Xhosa tribesmen who've been living in huts and enduring an unspeakable initiation ceremony wander out of a thicket and are confronted by an electric pylon.

Do you want cards that give you special «lifestyle» privileges, eg access to clubs, private concierge, illuminati initiation ceremonies?

Ceremonies, such as initiation ceremonies and corroborees, were important to the Butchulla people and their clans.

In 2007, my mentor [the now deceased Pius (Mau) Piailug, a master navigator famous for navigating without instruments] was conducting an initiation ceremony on Satawal Island in Micronesia.

A decade ago I laughed heartily at a CBS commentary on the Ku Klux Klan that showed one scraggly candidate for the Georgia Klan, at an initiation ceremony that called for a military formation, turning right when the order «left face» was given.

Initiation ceremonies and rites of puriflcation and rebirth are rich in mythical symbolism.18

It says the pig incident was part of an initiation ceremony.

At the group's exclusive yearly meeting at the St. Regis Hotel, an initiation ceremony included men dressing in drag and telling homophobic and sexist jokes.

Separate arrays of dog bones indicate that at least two initiation ceremonies, and possibly several more, occurred over Krasnosamarskoe's 200 - year history.

This indicates a need for us to reclaim our original «human rites» with mentoring and initiation ceremonies that midwife our life transitions.

There's a scene where one of the troopers gets tied naked to a bench as part of an initiation ceremony.

There was no initiation ceremony.

When she flunks her coven's initiation ceremony, she learns that her father is a vampire — and not just any vampire, but a vampire leader, which makes her «some kind of vampire princess.»

Loyiso Mayga, Wandise Ngcama, Lunga White, Luyanda Mzanti and Khungsile Mdolo after their initiation ceremony, Mthatha, 2008 © Pieter Hugo, courtesy Stevenson Gallery, Capetown / Johannesburg and Yossi Milo, New York

Maybe this works as an initiation ceremony for students who, when they actually calculate how far off natural the globe really is, but for even somewhat innumerate less scientific public this is a hurdle that's not very easily taken.

Next thing you know, the secret handshake and initiation ceremony will be out of the closet.

Frat parties, initiation ceremonies, and general shenanigans.

Native Americans use sand paintings in their healing and initiation ceremonies (Ammann & Sandner, 1991).