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  • Similarly, in the Vajapeya ritual, the performer of the rite would consume the intoxicating soma beverage in hopes of experiencing the mystical ...
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  • as a true gentlemen around town. He was a Latin Rite Catholic convert, and a member of the Knights of Columbus. Patterson suffered from Alzheimer ...
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  • is the Islamic rite of pilgrimage in Mecca, the city in Saudi Arabia ... On the hajj, Muslims take part in a rite of passage of truly epic proportions ...
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  • were Byrd's major contribution to the Roman rite. These were written for an intimate and small group of skilled amateurs (which included women ...
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  • this time (1913), Stravinsky premiered the Rite of Spring, sparking riots ... it ‘the English Le Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring)’. ...
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  • double proverbial conclusion: "a fav'rite has not friend" and "know one false step is ne'er retrieved." ...
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  • jewels) for Vyasatirtha, using literal jewels for a rite usually performed with ghee, milk, yogurt, gaur, honey, sugar-water and tender coconuts. ...
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  • above the life of the beasts, and the holy rite, which inspires in those who ... sacrifice that was of the essence of the rite; something was shown to the ...
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  • finally purchased by the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry. The Masons built the Grand Ballroom on the seventh floor as well as a new building ...
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  • have a baptismal font for the traditional rite of washing that marks the ... the Pope is the Patriarch of the Latin Rite church. However, in February ...
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  • The Nuer receive facial markings (called gaar) as part of the rite of passage initiating them into adulthood. The pattern of Nuer scarification ...
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  • , in this context meaning "secret rite or doctrine." An individual who followed such a Mystery was a mystes, "one who has been ...
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  • a prayer method in use especially among Latin Rite (Western) Catholics. This tradition appears in the East only among Latinized Ukrainian and Maronite ...
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  • high school is considered a significant rite of passage in many cultures ... high school is considered a significant rite of passage in many cultures ...
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  • eastern churches which practice the East Syrian rite. He recently received new attention in the West, where he had been largely ignored since the sixth ...
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  • numerous ceremonies and significant rite of passage. Thus, they resisted ... The coming of age rite of passage is celebrated differently by boys ...
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  • "Masonic Landmarks," The Scottish Rite Journal (February 2002). ... G.C., Receives 50-Year Pin, The Scottish Rite Journal (January 2001) However ...
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  • (1916) and Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring, with music by Igor Stravinsky (1913). Nijinsky created choreography far from that of traditional ...
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  • use should be protected as a harmless religious rite, or banned as a dangerous drug which harms humans in both known cases and in ways they have ...
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  • of age ceremony, fishermen's shaman rite (yeongdeunggut) || Day 1 of ... || Visit to ancestral grave for offering rite, and cleaning and maintenance ...
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