Initiation Rites

And I was in a village where there was an initiation ceremony for the young men, a rite of passage.

Rhythms that reflect realities

Indigenous tribal ritual

Rituals, reflections, poetic assaults ...

They are performing puja.

Maradona Priest and Victim of a Dark Argentine Ritual

So when there's no ceremony, the food we eat becomes bad.

The gods become less important than the rituals themselves.

Would you violate the sacred rites of hospitality?

McDonald's cows are killed and there's no ceremony of killing the animal.

What do you expect? There's no ceremony.

There's really no ceremony, rituals, or rites.

Now a torchbearer, in a forgotten ritual.

When Igor Stravinsky wrote his ballet, The Rite of Spring...

I have given her permission to hold the sacred rite of her own religion.

The rite of harakiri has changed over time.

It mimics perfectly all the rituals that we will find in offices rituals of entry, rituals of exit, the schedules, the uniforms in this country, things that identify you, team building activities, team building that will allow you to basically be with a random group of kids, or a random group of people that you will have to be with for a number of time.

They were part of what seems to have been an elaborate burial ritual.

So were priestly rituals to preserve the universe.

And they said, We don't know, but it's just rituals that give us meaning.

I repeat, when Igor Stravinsky wrote his ballet, The Rite of Spring, his purpose was, in his own words, to express primitive life.

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.

And they did this incredible ritual combat dance.

And so he took me through the initiation ritual for a Bamana priest.

Vedic rituals had commanded respect for the gods and inspired conviction.

According to his virtue, let us use him with all respect and rites of burial.

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

Elaborate rituals are generally associated with the act.

In Transkei, I witnessed a rite of passage into manhood, of the Xhosa tribe.

After finishing his bedtime rituals, he looked at me and he asked a question

It was not a trial at all.

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.

Do you need to be a priest inducted into sacred rituals in order to have privileged access to the knowledge of God's laws?

Every few months we come across a few of the wretches with their ghastly rites.

The ritual began in this courtroom... swept over the land like a raging, roaring disease.

So at funerals, relationships are reconfirmed but also transformed in a ritual drama that highlights the most salient feature about death in this place its impact on life and the relationships of the living.

By one that I'll procure to come to thee, Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite

I just need backup to get through the excruciating ritual of meeting one of Rohan's basic bitches.

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.

Agents of the security forces have attended Christian church services and taken down the names of those who are present.

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.