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He broke the white wafer into small pieces and placed one in his mouth, whispering the rites of Communion.
Ideally, the altar would be built in a walled garden where rites could be conducted in privacy.
The Acholi tribe has sophisticated rites of forgiveness and reconciliation, a lesson to those of us in the West.
Dead bodies were to be covered in bleach, and typical burial rites of kissing and touching ignored.
Another summer has passed, and with its passing the rites of autumn have begun.
Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
Plants may be used to induce spiritual experiences for rites of passage, such as vision quests in some Native American cultures.
In rites of encoffinment, burial and commemoration, all human beings are treated as ghosts.
The Bell Beaker domestic ware of Southern Germany are not as closely related to the Corded Ware as would be indicated by their burial rites.
There are distinctions in burial rites, the types of grave goods, and in artistic style.
Many remain in the church to participate in the community and practices such as baptism, confirmation, marriage and burial rites.
The Latin liturgical rites, like the Armenian, are used only in a single sui iuris particular church.
Some rites, such as the 1637 Scottish rite and the 1789 rite in the United States, went back to the 1549 model.
The Anglican tradition includes separate rites for Nuptial Masses, Funeral Masses, and votive Masses.
The gods represented distinctly the practical needs of daily life, and they were scrupulously accorded the rites and offerings considered proper.
Martin Litchfield West also asserts this in relation to shamanistic initiatory rites of early Greek religious practices.
After they ceased to become religious beliefs, few would have known the rites and rituals.
Specific rites relating to death and burial were practiced, though certainly differing in style and execution between cultures.
Animal worship during the Upper Paleolithic was intertwined with hunting rites.
Burial in desert environments appears to enhance Egyptian preservation rites, and the dead were buried facing due west.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In the introduction of the funeral pile and the cinerary urn, we have one important evidence of the adoption of novel rites.
It was only by religious rites that the aleatory element in the struggle for existence could be controlled.
Consequently it remains in many respects the most ancient monument of primitive rites and ceremonies in Christendom.
The birk held a high place in the secret rites and customs of the Ballad Age.
Equally so the rites, ceremonies, and nature of the cabalistic order he established.
These two rites really begin the catechumenate or period of instruction in the faith and discipline of the church.
It is only in late Acheulean times that human burial rites or interments begin and that skeletal remains are found.
The rites of sacrifice survived in the same forms as in the British Isles.
She was a slave to hideous rites, gazing at the apparitional snake.
Dew from the Bermudas was probably wanted for some of his magical rites.
The marriage rites are a blend of the Canarese and Telugu types.
Newland Archer arrived at the Chiverses' on Friday evening, and on Saturday went conscientiously through all the rites appertaining to a week-end at Highbank.
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