Quotes About Ritualistic

I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.

Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. "They are my own hooks," Shishakli said in a husky voice. "They never have failed.

Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony. (Leoparden brechen in den Tempel ein und saufen die Opferkrüge leer; das wiederholt sich immer wieder; schließlich kann man es vorausberechnen, und es wird ein Teil der Zeremonie.)

I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

If you think about it, if you've ever been to a Catholic service, it's practically a laser light show. It's very dramatic, very theatrical. The outfits they wear, it's all designed to be impressive.

Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.

collect As many tripods as you think you'll need, Together with the other kinds of vessels That the rites of sacrifice require: cauldrons, Shallow basins, bowls; pour tall jugs full 8860 Of purest water from the sacred spring; Have ready wood that's dry and quick to catch; And finally, be sure a sharp knife's there. All else I leave to you." Those

Surely the gestures of murmuring priests must contain some deep meaning

Juju must hang clear of ground,' he said. M'Carthi gave an order, and three black bucks leaped to obey it. They tied a rope of woven vines around the juju and one of them shinned up the tree and passed the rope over a limb; the other two hoisted the juju

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.

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Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

When all is ready, the leaders walk out to the dance place.

of some ritual act by Eannatum, corresponding, for example, to the sending of doves in some of the

Church on time, makes me party.

Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.

Los domingos por la mañana examinaba mis amuletos, la caja con dólares de plata que había enterrado junto al arroyo, y la muñeca enterrada en el campo, y el libro clavado en un árbol del pinar; mientras todo permaneciera donde yo lo había dejado, nada podía sucedernos

He nodded. 'We can circumcise a hundred boys an hour.

OEDIPUS: If all such violence goes with honor now Why join the sacred dance.

the body of a wagon, to symbolize a whole wagon. Food and drink were usually placed in the graves. All this indicates that the realm of the dead was reached by a journey,