Sentences with phrase «rites of the pilgrimage»

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As a result, «ideas of purity and impurity» which were so pervasive in the lives of Hindus have become much weaker, and in the life - style of the middle class they are «becoming confined to rites of passage, pilgrimages and a few festivals».

- Pilgrimage to mecca was orginally a pagan religious rite of peace from all the different pagan religions a week of peice and trade (making the person or tradesman who owned mecca the wealthiest man and most powerful man in the region no wonder mohommed wanted it back so much was a money thing).

ALBANY — On Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio made his third pilgrimage to Albany as mayor for «tin cup day» — an annual legislative rite in which mayors from various cities around the state appear before a joint bipartisan committee made up of members of both houses of the Legislature in order to, essentially, beg for what they would like to see in the state's final budget.