Sentences with phrase «sacred grove»
A "sacred grove" is a special area with trees that is considered holy or revered by certain religious or spiritual groups. It's a place where people go to worship, connect with nature, or perform rituals. Full definition
Have the souls of Christianity and the tutelary spirits of wind, water and sacred grove once invoked by pagan Greece and Rome come back as software and information, which never diminish however often they are used?
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Togbe Adanu Sakrafo, X, Paramount Chief of the Area, said the community was strategising to make the reserves and sacred groves tourists destinations.
Anwar and the rest are not sacred groves and should not be treated as such.
To set ourselves to reject the older gods, spirits, fairies is actually to renounce all «moral mysteries» and to claim the same power of radical redescription for ourselves: If Nature no longer offers any obstacle to human projects, no threat of violence against those who slaughter the cattle of the sun or cut down sacred groves, then the world is ours to remake as we will.
Most of us have preferred to live without complaint in our familiar domestic world: Even if there are no sacred groves, no fairy presences, no knowing beasts «out there,» we have little hesitation in thinking that human lives and our local institutions are sacred.
So also the Hebrew prophets, demanding that the sacred groves be cut down, and the people of God reject all rival gods.
Almost all similar statements are indebted to White; they even cite the same examples: grief over the destruction of the sacred groves; respect for Saint Francis of Assisi.
«Gripped by fear men go to the sacred mountains, sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines ~ Dhammapada 188»
They razed the sacred groves, killed the priests, and drained the flow of meaning right off the planet.
Mr Pascal Benson Atiglah, Project Coordinator of Accelerated Rural Development Organization a non-governmental organization, focused on sustainable environmental management, said his outfit was reviving and protecting fast depleting forests and 30 sacred groves in the Volta Region.
The Rameshwaram parachute spider (Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica) was discovered in 2004 in a sacred grove on Rameshwaram Island in southern India.
It seems that this was a holy site for a pagan religion — a sacred grove — where the victorious conclusion of major battles was marked by the ritual presentation and destruction of the bones of the vanquished warriors,» adds Mads Kähler Holst.
And finally, Delta protected the boy from an angry wolf they encountered at the sacred grove of Diana.
The power of the sacred grove gave the elves powerful magic.
When the Turner Prize winning artist Chris Ofili was asked to design a set and costumes for the Royal Ballet's Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, he found inspiration in the story itself of a hunter who comes upon the chaste goddess Diana and her nymphs bathing in a sacred grove.
Genesis tells of the sacred grove: / Roots soaked in cool water of astral seas, branches bathed by / Silvery moonlight.
The Greeks had their sacred groves, the Druids their oak worship, the Romans their games in honor of Floralia.