| Stravinsky then turned to a pagan rite of a girl dancing herself to death before the elders in order to propitiate the god of spring. |
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| Since these people used tobacco to propitiate their deities, the herb itself was one of the instruments of godless, false religions. |
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| Plotinus and Porphyry felt reserve towards participation in sacrifices to propitiate the spirits. |
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| All that needed to be done to propitiate God's wrath and save his people from their sins had been accomplished. |
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| The Samhitas are hymns addressed to gods representing the forces of nature, followed by rites and sacrifices to propitiate those gods. |
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| At one time the majority of people believed in the divine right of kings, slavery, and human sacrifice to propitiate the gods. |
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| The Shiva-Vishnu Temple performs Gayatri havan periodically to propitiate the Lord. |
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| This being occult worship, they propitiate ghosts as part of their ritual. |
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| It suits the French to adopt an anti-war posture at the moment because they are trying to propitiate a revival of their duumvirate over the European Union with the Germans. |
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| Rituals associated with ploughing and planting of rice during monsoon and then again later at the end of monsoon were occasions to propitiate the gods for a bountiful harvest. |
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| She advises passing motorists to propitiate the saint with a modest gift of rupees. |
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| The 50 virtual labs that use simulators and videos to propitiate knowledge building and application. |
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| The 18 virtual labs that use simulators and a demonstrating experience, which use videos and propitiate knowledge building and application. |
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| Tuesday is a very propitiate day for that, because Mars can trouble us, Mars can give us progress. |
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| To propitiate is to appease the Divine wrath by satisfaction offered and to beg mercy and forgiveness for sinners. |
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| The wealth and the diversity of our more beautiful natural scenes propitiate its direct contact with nature. |
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| I could propitiate a particular deity who is associated with books. |
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| Each village has its own shaman to propitiate the spirits that cause illness and accidents, and a priest to perform the village ceremony for the ancestor spirits. |
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| Perhaps he offers this volume to propitiate the gods he has deposed. |
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| Methuselah and his brothers, with the sons of Enoch, built an altar and sacrificed sheep and oxen to propitiate the gods. |
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| Does not propitiate the formation of bad odors. |
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| The Zapotec word Guelaguetza means offering and was originally used to describe a ceremony held each year in order to propitiate the gods in return for sufficient rain and a bountiful harvest. |
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| In Asian religions, we are urged to forgive not so much to propitiate a Deity but more because grudge-bearing is bad for our own spiritual health. |
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| It fulfills an important task: to propitiate the reflection on the current economic reality, to contribute to a well structured debate and to stimulate the corresponding changes in professionals and leaders' ideas. |
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| Hence, there were numerous specific prohibitions on acts believed to offend them and a number of observances designed to propitiate them, chief of which was the first-salmon ceremony. |
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| There is belief in a creator-god, Mwari, and a concern to propitiate ancestral and other spirits to ensure good health, rain, and success in enterprise. |
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| Is a ritual to propitiate the good harvest of the just begun. |
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| It will propitiate, among the sister tribes which recognise one another in the same culture or in similar cultures, the discovery of common points of reference and of paths of reconciliation. |
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| Spiritually, she might propitiate on behalf of her family before the gods and even carry out sacrifices, but her propitiations would not include her extended family. |
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