Search results for "Rite" - New World Encyclopedia
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- blessing Brigid as abbess, inadvertently read the rite of consecration of a bishop, which could not be rescinded under any circumstances. The story spread ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- Imperial family. Sumai (or sumo) no sechie, a rite of the Imperial Court in Nara and Kyoto performed for purposes of divination and to help ensure a bountiful ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 21:12, 28 December 2023
- of one of his stories, Patriotism, the Rite of Love and Death. ... * 1966 憂国 Yūkoku Patriotism, The Rite of Love and Death ...26 KB (3,997 words) - 18:56, 9 November 2022
- species. In both these cases the object of the rite is the elimination of association with the divine as a source of danger. A Nazarite was required ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- by the Senate for one day, to perform a specific rite. his Dictatorship. After that point, the rite was performed by the Rex Sacrorum. ...31 KB (4,749 words) - 00:22, 12 April 2023
- an initiation ceremony, or religious rite, in which he conferred on the people the "NamaNivedana," or "Brahma Sambandha," ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- ceremony is prefaced by the Paraga, a prepatory rite, where a number of ritual movements leads to the preparation of the haoma beverage, which consists ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2023
- into the Abrahamic covenant through the rite of circumcision ... *Mohel—The man who performs the brit milah (rite of circumcision). ...32 KB (4,795 words) - 08:46, 12 May 2024
- Naojot, the Zoroastrian initiation rite, involves a child between ... Bareshnum i-no Shab is a fastidious purification rite that must be ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- This dance is a blessing of the area and a rite of passage for youths becoming men. It consists of 16 different performances including a display ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- their graves. Exorcism is the Catholic Church rite of removing demon possession. The "fun and games" turn into the "night of the living ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- Ravel's La Valse, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, as well as quotations from Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and many others, creating ...14 KB (2,188 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- principle," were acted upon by rite. R. Dale Guthrie has studied not only the most artistic and publicized paintings but also a variety of ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 16:21, 3 December 2023
- animals, respectively, they would undertake a rite in which the statue of Pan was whipped and scourged in hopes of calling back the god from inactivity ...15 KB (2,404 words) - 06:26, 18 November 2022
- * Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring). * Edgard Varèse (Déserts). * Richard Wagner (Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Ride of the Valkyries). ...17 KB (2,861 words) - 18:39, 2 May 2023
- secular world. Passing through them is a rite of purification. After passing ... process. A more personal purification rite is the purification by water ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- of the Innocents," as a sort of sacrificial rite in which children gave themselves up for the good of Christendom. His sources have also been criticized ...16 KB (2,418 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- *The Rite (1968) (Riten) (TV) *Shame (1968) (Skammen) *Persona (1966) *All These Women (1964) (För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor) ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- in this context meaning "secret rite or doctrine." ... symbolism and theology to the initiate. The Rite is thought to re-enact what ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- bread and wine used during the rite of Holy Communion. In the Early Christian times such tabernacles were kept within private houses where Christians ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
