Sentences with phrase «sacrificial altar»
A sacrificial altar is a special place where people used to offer sacrifices to please gods or spirits. It is a type of table or raised structure where animals or other offerings were placed and sometimes killed as a religious ritual. Full definition
There is then a fascinating sacrificial altar at its centre.
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Our weeks - long national nightmare of watching worthier movies underperform as Americans gave away their hard - earned dollars on the Moloch-esque sacrificial altar of the Suicide Squad hype machine is over.
Edward Sövik's remarks in Architecture for Worship are representative: «[The eucharistic table] ought to be distinguished (as it was by the early Christians) from the sacrificial altars of other religions.
The Lion of Judah (PG for mature themes) Faith - based animated adventure about the attempt of a brave lamb (Georgina Cordova) along with his stable mates to avoid the sacrificial altar at Easter time.
The condor's head and neck feathers are carved into the temple's floor to complete the image and these features may have been used as a sacrificial altar.
You will also see Qenqo with its sacrificial altar and the famous pre-Incan fortress of Sacsayhuaman.
He kneels on a classical stone pedestal, recalling Jesus's tomb as well as a sacrificial altar.
Maybe the sacrificial altar is the first abstract expressionist painting.