I will now proceed with the ritual.

We're losing a ritual.

Well you are describing a classic ritual.

And I will share one of the rituals with you.

You see priests performing rituals.

It isn't some cultic thing. (Laughter)

Some revolting sacrificial rite has been performed.

While services in Armenian or Syriac languages are permitted, Christian services held in Farsi have been prohibited.

So the key is to choose the right rituals, the ones that are not harmful but rituals by themselves are not to be dismissed.

And they immediately said to me, Well you are describing a classic ritual.

And they helped me understand that rituals are all about transformation.

So no, I think that rituals are, by nature, irrational.

...where our Storytellers... ...will tell us stories, each with a particular theme

The world is perishing from an orgy of selfsacrificing.

But, Counselor, the ritual cannot take place without a second.

Regarding the widowed men, when subjected to these rites they are less heavy.

I would submit to you that that is a ritual of exceeding importance.

Some of its rituals still live on in ceremonies conducted by

He's reestablishing some of the ancient rituals of traditional roman religion.

Here are the survivors of these orgies, leaving the Château de Selliny.

Tonight after the service, a deacons' meeting over Angharad.

Did we simply lose our beastly impulses for revenge, for violent rituals, for pure rage?

Girls of your age should help about the house, cooking, washing up performing religious rites.

History Early uses The history of smoking dates back to as early as 5000 BC in shamanistic rituals.

They were dissatisfied with the Swedish Rite that was practised in St. Petersburg.

We have the kind of the flash of insight, the stroke of insight, we have epiphanies, we have eureka! moments, we have the lightbulb moments, right?

They are symbolically fed and cared for, and the family at this time will begin a number of ritual injunctions, which communicates to the wider community around them that one of their members is undergoing the transition from this life into the afterlife known as Puya.

This comes across also in the way in which religions set up rituals around important feelings.

Did we simply lose our beastly impulses for revenge, for violent rituals, for pure rage?

And if you shortchange that ritual by not undressing the patient, by listening with your stethoscope on top of the nightgown, by not doing a complete exam, you have bypassed on the opportunity to seal the patient physician relationship.

I remember so many huge, hollowed out, haunted eyes staring up at me as I performed this ritual.

But these localized rituals become pan Andean, and these fantastic festivals,

But by Siddhartha's time, the rituals no longer spoke to the spiritual needs of many Indians,

Only they could conduct the holy rituals that were said to preserve the universe itself.

And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

At the top, the Commandant, who oversees the camp routine.

The Feast of RhaGon is the most sacred rite celebrated each year in the land of Sheba.

Female genital mutilation is a coming of age ritual in some societies.

And they actually take items of clothing and photographs, and they burn them as part of the ritual.

And so, you have these grand rituals where great images of mother goddesses are built and worshiped for 10 days ...

So, I tried to work on the standard model of culture, which is, develop stories, symbols and rituals.

And, when I use it correctly, which happens occasionally, it lifts cutting into a ritual.

This age old ritual may remind us of permanence but that couldn't be further from the truth

They established communication between entire villages with rites and rituals that recreated the experiences of long ago.

We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient physician relationship.