Sentences with phrase «of ancient rituals»

La Cueva Pintada, or the painted cave, offers an insight into indigenous island artwork and a mysterious glimpse of ancient rituals and proceedings.

but notice that in Leviticus 17:14 we are provided with an explicit explanation of what the Hebrew nation was discussing when blood came into the discussion: In plenty of ancient rituals it was clear that blood was a physical manifestation of life - force and consuming blood of another was an attempt to steal the life that God had given that individual being.

Instead, over the course of its 45 minutes it invents its own rules, and you realize you're watching something like the filmic channeling of an ancient ritual.

The girls must uncover the secrets of an ancient ritual and the abandoned village which is now been permanently shrouded in a mysterious darkness in order to escape its grasp.

For those who witness Huanca's hypnotic, hybrid works, you can expect to experience something between the aftermath of an acid rave and the spiritual ceremony of an ancient ritual.

A re-imagining of an ancient ritual, atomising a rigid formation, it exemplifies a restlessness with respect to a revered institution, part of an establishment that defines our society.

This integration of cultures, creeds and styles is demonstrated in Shire's Hannukkah Lamp, Menorah # 7 (1986), which displays an obvious homage to Bauhaus constructivism with a Memphis pastel palette, and a funky, almost sci - fi, «bad taste» re-envisioning of an ancient ritual artefact in a way that suggests alternative modes of living and practicing spirituality.

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So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

Easter co-ming from ancient pagan fertility rituals as stated, not sure how that's fit's into the ancient Passover Seder meal of the Jews...?

I suspect your church, like all of them, are offshoots of the pagan rituals you all stole from the ancients.

Dwight clearly has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to «blood rituals,» but the sight of blood on fruit stirs an idea of something ancient and powerful in him.

Rather, the condemnations must be seen in the light of ritual impurity - homosexuality is condemned because of its use in cultic worship practices, as found in Canaanite religions and then imitated in ancient Israel.

With the ancient altars no longer standing, with the sacrificial cultus interpreted as a mere foreshadowing of the access to God that Christians spiritually enjoyed, with the growing rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellowship.

As I've spoken with young evangelicals across the country, I've found that many of them are rediscovering the Church's ancient commitment to ritual.

The chief ancient ritual of intercourse with the unseen world was sacrifice, and in her earliest traditions, sacrificial practices of some kind were assumed as a matter of course.

The morning news, Monday, September 27, 1976: New York city: An elderly Chinese couple today took the proceeds from the sale of their laundry — some $ 100,000 — ignited it into a small bonfire in their apartment (an ancient ritual investment in immortality for oneself and one's ancestors), then with their daughter leaped from their...

The Sadducees came out of the priestly cast in ancient Israel, and over time gained control over the rituals in the Jerusalem temple, a position which also made them power brokers in affairs of state.

Now that we have briefly sketched the role of myth and ritual in the ancient world we can see why it is convenient to use the label «mythological» to describe the world of ancient man.

For this aspect of tradition — the dimension of symbolic distinctiveness preserved in the ancient patterns of the worship and ritual life of the Church — is at least as central to Catholic identity as many of the doctrinal positions worried about by those who conceive of tradition primarily as a body of authoritative teaching.

The school fulfills in our times the role of the ancient initiation rituals, which introduced our children to the society and to their human and sacred role in this society.

Elizabeth shows herself to be far less interested in displaying her personality than in discussing the rituals, regalia, and history of each moment in the ancient coronation ceremony.

«4 And Haydon's friend, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, added: «The ancient techniques of prayer and ritual need to be retained only in so far as they are aesthetically appealing.

This idea is one of the reasons the ancient Roman populace abhorred Christianity, they perceived it as ritual cannibalism.

The import of God slaying the first - born of Egypt is found in its juxtaposition with the requirement that every Jewish father redeem his first - born son in an ancient ritual in which the infant is presented to a representative of the Kohanim, Israel's ancient caste of priests.

But, of course they won't because this ritual has nothing to do with the symbols of the United States but rather their ancient relationship to the animals.

He appealed to Scripture, to ancient rituals, and to the teachings of the Church of England to argue for his radical Christian ideas.

Ancient peoples practiced this ritual with a goat or sometimes with a human sacrifice to appease the volcano gods anger, or because of the rain god hadn't come etc..

In all this, too, it is possible to discern the traits of kingship in the portrait of man, expressed not only through the naming ritual but also in the ancient cultic symbolism of the tending and watering of the tree of life, a sacral duty of the king.

New York city: An elderly Chinese couple today took the proceeds from the sale of their laundry — some $ 100,000 — ignited it into a small bonfire in their apartment (an ancient ritual investment in immortality for oneself and one's ancestors), then with their daughter leaped from their window to their death.

(Thus the ritual prostitution featured in many ancient temples of the Middle East.)

This sounds like some sort of ancient pagan ritual where the worshippers splashed blood on themselves as they went into the temple to worship their pagan god.

Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.

According to the legend, ancient Aztec warriors had a ritual of eating a spoonful of chia seeds before a battle to keep them satiated and full of energy ¹.

Also adhering to a cultural enrichment protocol, this spa introduces and honors ancient healing techniques and shamanistic treatments and rituals from the Huichol Indians, a reclusive tribe living in the heart of the surrounding Sierra Madre Mountains.

The boiling of a kid in its mother's milk was an ancient Canaanite fertility ritual which compounded the symbols of the baby kid with the mother's milk.

Oneworld Retreats offer you the chance to immerse yourself in this ancient ritual and leave with a lighter spirit and sense of peace.

Greek mythology deals with the myths and teachings of Ancient Greece, relating to their gods, heroes, nature, origins and rituals.

According to ancient texts, the body was supposed to be kept under natron for 35 days, and then kept around, exposed, for another 35 — perhaps for a period of mourning or other religious rituals.

Orlando's group examined DNA from the bones of 15 Iron Age stallions from the ancient Scythian civilization: Two stallions were from a 2,700 - year - old grave site in Russia and 13 were sacrificed in a burial ritual about 2,300 years ago in Kazakhstan.

Mummies, Tombs and Immortality Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt explores Egypt's burial rituals and beliefs about the afterlife through a vast collection of mummies and artifacts.

Describing the find at a meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada speculated that the ancient tooth might have been washed downstream to Nebraska by floods, or carried as a ritual object by early humans.

The figurines, 1,200 to 1,600 years old, predate the Aztec ascendancy by at least 600 years and bear witness to the ancient roots of a grim ritual.

Over the past 50 years, vestiges of religious rituals have turned up in hundreds of caves throughout the land of the ancient Maya, stretching from Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula down through El Salvador.

The religious rituals in the land of the ancient Maya.

After a 45 - year career in diagnostic medical sonography and the observations of thousands of fetuses, I am convinced that the ancient human tendency to use ritual rhythm, drumming and dancing is a natural result of these in utero fetal experiences.

«It's just kind of a trope,» that ancient Romans were luxurious and vapid enough to engage in rituals of binging and purging, said Sarah Bond, an assistant professor of classics at the University of Iowa.

The ancient creatures were considered excellent souvenirs, compactly embodying the exotic rituals of an ancient society.

At the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East here last week, for example, one scholar even reinterpreted well - studied ancient images as representing drug - taking rituals and drug - induced distoAncient Near East here last week, for example, one scholar even reinterpreted well - studied ancient images as representing drug - taking rituals and drug - induced distoancient images as representing drug - taking rituals and drug - induced distortions.

For example, «hard scientific evidence» shows that ancient people extracted opium from poppies, says David Collard, senior archaeologist at Jacobs, an engineering firm in Melbourne, Australia, who found signs of ritual opium use on Cyprus dating back more than 3000 years.

Records kept by the Romans describe the macabre rituals practised by the Germanic peoples on the bodies of their vanquished enemies, but this is the first time that traces of an ancient holy site have been unearthed.