Initiation Rites

Rhythms that reflect realities

Rituals, reflections, poetic assaults ...

Maradona Priest and Victim of a Dark Argentine Ritual

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.

Greet one another with an holy kiss.

Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

When my father died many Christmas rituals disappeared from our household.

By tradition, a child's upbringing is fairly structured through rites of initiation that are carried out at various ages, with the basic purpose of preparing a child for adult life.

You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

So Senegal s rituals of respect may not be holding.

Here on the Upper West Side, in the middle of a triangle formed by Central Park, Lincoln Center, and the Hudson River, I was once in the habit of beginning each day with an exotic act of devotion, a ritual of humility.

For it is a jubilee it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array.

For it is the jubile it shall be holy unto you ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

But prohibiting the ritual slaughter of animals does not stop Jews or Muslims from practicing their religion.

Governments fear that they will lose credibility with financial markets.

Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.

Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.

All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness fear before him, all the earth.

Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.

The United Nations has a sacred responsibility to combat hatred and intolerance.

Islam's pervasiveness in every aspect of life makes it more a way of life than a strictly devotional faith.

History In ancient Athens, a person who committed suicide without the approval of the state was denied the honours of a normal burial.

The religious character of Islam varied between Muslim countries since the Koran was open to a wide variety of interpretations.

Here is our tradition At every Himba village, there is a sacred fire.

They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated for it is holy to Yahweh.

And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land for it is holy unto the LORD.

And I remember having a very eerie sense that the patient and I had slipped back into a primitive ritual in which I had a role and the patient had a role.

The captured lord was taken back to Quiriguá and on 3 May 738 he was decapitated in a public ritual.

You want to wage holy war on a billion Muslims over the bad behavior of the Saudi regime?

It is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

In addition, it was making territorial claims to sacred land belonging to its neighbours.

Facts are Sacred by Datablog editor Simon Rogers describes data journalism like this Comment is free, wrote Guardian editor CP Scott in 1921, but facts are sacred .

But not all European citizens are practicing Christians. Many are not Christians at all.

Hereditary monarchy, often backed by divine authority, has worked in the past.