Initiation Rites

Rhythms that reflect realities

Rituals, reflections, poetic assaults ...

Maradona Priest and Victim of a Dark Argentine Ritual

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

Dark Places (2009) is about a woman who investigates whether or not her incarcerated brother was truly responsible for the murder of their family in the 1980s, which happened when she was a child during the era of panic about Satanic ritual abuse.

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.

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.

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

Sami killed Layla then he took his life.

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.

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.

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

He who kills an animal shall make it good and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

The plant is usually green in color, but a purple variant was once grown for use in Inca rituals.

Injured and killed by it

Kuru was transmitted through cannibalistic rituals that were commonplace in Papua New Guinea until the 1950 s.

At least one policeman was killed, and sources said one protester had also been killed.

She attempted to kill herself.

He killed that man.

Sami killed his mother.

Sami murdered a prostitute.

Sami took Layla's life.

Killing the Death Penalty

17 people are killed

It was a murder.

He was killed instantly.

To paraphrase Stalin The intentional killing of one person is murder, but that of a hundred, a thousand, or a million is merely a grim statistic.

OSLO The dance around the golden Nobel medallion began over a 100 years ago, and is still going strong.

She tried to kill herself.

I tried to kill myself twice.

Tom was killed in an accident.

Sami choked the life out of Layla.

Sami killed his dog coldly.

Sami killed Layla's dogs.

A Murder in Moscow

Jihad or Murder?

Killing Growth in Russia

Killing Justice in Russia

Murder Unincorporated