Sentences with phrase «sacred objects»

In other words, he took sacred objects to provide people with secular pleasure.

Inspired by blues legends, her exhibition is a series of beautifully crafted sacred objects.

The Native American Zuni tribe have been extremely vocal in their calls for the return of sacred objects from both European and South American collections.

But planning to burn, literally, the most sacred object in Islam, even more sacred than the Kabah!

Another interesting historical snippet in this museum can be found in a copy of the 1991 Guinness Book of Records which lists the Golden Buddha as the «sacred object with the highest intrinsic value of # 21.1 million.

The meticulously preserved folded paper sheets from his performances — one of them over 100ft long — are shown in glass boxes like sacred objects.

This large pictural autobiography includes sacred objects, portraits, tributes and abstract spin - offs: a challenging mixture of melancholy and joy of life.

Both Lenin and Stain inst.ituted policies that made it a crime to own sacred objects, to teach one's faith to one's children, and even to pray.

Defendants were charged with violations of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA), which prohibits the excavation and sale of artifacts from public land or Indian land, and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which requires items retrieved from burial sites and other sacred objects to be returned to Indian tribes.

Today, visitors can climb aboard an inner tube to ride down the placid Caves Branch River, entering miles of passageways that still feature artifacts and sacred objects left behind by Maya priests.

When faced with conflict or duress, what sacred objects or physical memories would be the first in hand and tucked away for safekeeping?

From shimmering birds to spirit heads and deer sconces complete with flowers and lights, Josephson celebrates the beauty of sacred objects, investigating their meaning and exploring their connections to art.

In religion, many believe that the Holy Bible, Koran, and Buddhist scripts exist as sacred objects.

Seda - Reeder called the exhibition a «living archive,» yet at the venue, the posters looked like sacred objects.

In the religion of Israel the Ark was the most sacred object.

Synagogues were burned, their sacred objects profaned and destroyed; Jewish dwellings were ransacked, their...

Even Charles Spurgeon agreed when he said that «our conformity to Christ is the sacred object of predestination.»

I feel a sense of awe and humility when I look at it; I would even consider it a sacred object even though I am not a religious person.

This consideration of the forms of worship leads naturally to the topic of sacred acts and sacred objects.

The bill before Congress does not define or delimit «sacred object» with any precision; it is the kind of loophole that leads Helmuth Naumer, head of New Mexico's Cultural Affairs Department, to say that «if this law goes through in its current state, almost any Indian could claim almost anything.»

He thinks a case can be made for a Judeo - Islamic tradition, since, among other similarities, both are unitarian rather than trinitarian, both believe in the ideal of a theocracy, and both are iconoclastic and opposed to the veneration of sacred objects.

The Indians intend to picket, file complaints and otherwise protest until the skeletons, along with funerary and sacred objects, are removed.

In both its Senate and House versions, the proposed bill would greatly restrict museum field work on federal lands, and it would require any institution receiving federal funds to return not only human remains but also such «cultural patrimony» as funerary objects, objects of «inalienable communal property» and sacred objects.

Those loopholes may not be quite as large as Naumer suggests, however The bill — which focuses on tribes and not individuals or «almost any Indian» — requires that a tribe establish that an object or objects in question originated with it and come under one of the three categories — sacred object, funerary object, human remains.

Synagogues were burned, their sacred objects profaned and destroyed; Jewish dwellings were ransacked, their contents strewn and pillaged.

Even a Buddha stature takes on the character of a sacred object.

To some, a fried chicken sandwich is a sacred object of culinary worship, a piece of divinely crispy chicken between two hallowed buns.

The term mana means a magical force, power and / or authority residing in a person, animal or sacred object.

If scientists had sacred objects, this would be one of them: a single, closely guarded 137 - year - old cylinder of metal, housed in a vault outside of Paris.

But the tribe felt these were sacred objects.

A sacred object, the Dagger of Time, must be returned to its rightful place or the world will fall to ruin.

The quest to locate the sacred object adds pressure to the uneasy alliance between Evan and the Atlanteans.

A book is not a sacred object, nor is it a precious commodity.

You learn that the prophecy states that you would find five Mons (sacred objects) which are hidden around Adelpha (the name of this new world) and defeat Fae Rhan (the evil ruler of Adelpha).

Throughout their long history, the Royal Family of Hyrule passed down many powers and sacred objects, including the magical abilities that they inherited from their ancestor Hylia, the Light Force, the Goddess's Harp, the Triforce of Wisdom and the Ocarina of Time.

Prince's sarcophagus - like hood, presented on a wooden pedestal, is offered up as a sacred object.

Organic shapes evoke organs, outlines, or sacred objects.

To be in Nigeria, to see these sacred objects that only come out for ceremonial days, that are kept in complete secrecy — altered my sense of art, magic, beauty, and ancestry.

Sonia Gomes makes sculptures in cloth and wire, eclectic fabric contortions that evokes simultaneously the idea of viscera and the sacred object.

It examines moments of collective ritualised behaviour concerned with the creation and destruction of totemic or sacred objects.

From shimmering birds to monkey chandeliers and deer sconces complete with flowers and lights, Josephson celebrates the beauty of sacred objects.

(The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 was passed for the repatriation of Native American human remains and sacred objects.)

Cressman claims in his suit that the sculpture tells «the story of a Native American who believes in sacred objects, multiple deities, the divinity of nature, and the ability of humans to use sacred objects to convince gods to alter nature.»

To get still closer to the story, one might consider the drive north to Port MacNeil and the 30 minute ferry trip to Alert Bay on Cormorant Island to spend an afternoon at the wonderful Umista Museum where the Kwakwakawa present evidence of the theft of their sacred objects conducted in a fog of \ secret \ Indian Agent and missionary collusion as revealed in documents preserved by the governments of Canada and B.C.

Culture, he avers in a new book, Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge (University of Chicago Press) See his earlier thinking, too., is a sanctuary of wisdom, knowledge and refinement, but it is also a delicate creature that needs the apparatus of the state to protect it from the hordes of philistines, anarchists and free - marketeers who see cultural works as «commodities» rather than sacred objects.