Sentences with phrase «sacrificial rites»
"Sacrificial rites" refers to specific ceremonies or rituals in which offerings, often symbolic or valuable items, are made to a deity or higher power as a way to express devotion, seek favor, or show gratitude. Full definition
Buy my pigeons: just right for sacrificial rites.
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This explains what seem to us the strange and horrible sacrificial rites of primitive peoples; they are seeking to find something that they may present to their god — their best gift, even if it meant the offering of the bravest man, or of a treasured possession, or of some animal of flawless quality.
Kodashim («Holy things»), regarding sacrificial rites, the Temple, and the dietary laws (11 tractates) and 6.
Throw on your spelunking gear because this month we're wading deep into a Central American cave the Maya used for sacrificial rites.
Attic tragedy, for instance, began as a sacrificial rite.
Priests cleaned house by performing the sacrificial rites, sprinkling or smearing blood on the furniture of Yahweh's house, purging the earthly sanctuary with the blood of bulls and goats.
And why did the Maya take their sacrificial rites underground?