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How to use sistrum in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sistrum? Here are some examples.

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Deacons sing and accompany the song with drums and a sistrum as part of the mass.
The carved head that is on the handle of the sistrum, is Hathor, the goddess of music.
Drums, sometimes very large, were important in Mesopotamian ritual, while the characteristic instrument of Egyptian ceremony was the sistrum or rattle.
Two students composed a synthesized soundtrack that combined world beat rhythms with the beat of the sacred sistrum on every thrust of the harpoon.
Each has a Hathor-headed capital showing the goddess with a human head and bovine ears and a sistrum on her head.
Based on the ancient sistrum rattle, the Y-rattle is common throughout parts of Africa.
The sistrum was used in the cult of the goddess Hathor and later, as Hathor merged with the maternal and life-giving goddess Isis, use of the sistrum spread with the cult of Isis throughout the Roman Empire.
A young worshipper offered his sistrum to me to try later on in the Mass and it is much harder than it looks.
And the fun doesn't end after the racing with live music from Sistrum in the Horseshoe Bar after the last race.
The activities range from making a mummified beast of the Nile to being creative with clay to making your very own Sistrum, an Egyptian musical instrument.
Examples from Classical Literature
One of these shows a ritual procession, apparently of reapers singing and dancing to the sound of a sistrum.
They could hear the ringing of the sistrum bells and the murmuring chant of the priests.
Tachot seemed to notice this, for she raised her eyes from the sistrum and looked kindly and gratefully at the crowd.
Without speaking, the Hesea pointed with her sistrum to the Defender, who thereon broke the seal of his book and began to read.
Of the drawings in it I need say nothing, and of the sistrum or sceptre only a few words.
Next moment she had recovered the sistrum and passed on with her head bowed.
Women were great musicians, playing on many instruments, especially the sistrum, sacred to the goddess Hathor.
Her blue eyes, filled with tears, were fixed on the sistrum which her weak, emaciated hands had hardly strength to hold.
Figure 62 represents one of the forms assumed by the sistrum of Isis.
Among these were the sistrum, trumpet, double flute, and others.
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