Quotes About Ritual

The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

I drink coffee 30 minutes before I want to nap. I think that really helps.

I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?

There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville - a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people's homes, and there's a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.

Custom is second nature.

Still, he knew this ritual, for Azami, was much more. She was giving herself to him, declaring herself, in her own way, to be his. That he was her choice. However she treated him in public, without expression, no hand holding, no kissing, there would be this behind closed doors. To the rest of the world, she was samurai, to Sam, she was love.

When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.

With alcoholic ritual, the whole point is generosity. If you open a bottle of wine, for heaven's sake have the grace to throw away the damn cork.

The latter, which honors Abraham's willingness to make a human sacrifice of his son, is common to all three monotheisms, and descends from their primitive ancestors.

Creep we did, until we were just outside the halo of firelight. Three bent-backed hags were walking a slow circle around a large cauldron, dropping in twisted bits of this and that as they chanted. "Double, double, toil and trouble: Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." "Witches," whispered Kent, paying tribute to the god of all things bloody fucking obvious.

Too much protocol.

Gardiyan elindeki tepside a??r bir çaydanl?k ve iki kulpsuz Japon fincan?yla girdi. Çay? bardaklara sarsak hareketlerle, evcil bir ay?ym?? gibi boÅŸaltt?. Sanki zarafetten nasibi olmamak erkekliÄŸin kan?t?ym?? gibi.

with the center of Stonehenge. It shines through

Superstition brings bad luck.

Superstition brings bad luck. —Raymond Smullyan, 5000 B.C., 1.3.8

es cierto que, como decía Hegel, la lectura de los periódicos es la oración de la mañana del hombre moderno.

doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief.

Oh, for that first hit of the day, the blessed nicotine hitting the bloodstream and snapping the synapses to attention.

for the definition of love she'd handed down to her daughter like a dark incantation.

thakrar noun - The precise point of the spectrum of awe at which wonder turns to dread, or dread to wonder. Archaic; from the estatic priestesses of Thakra, worshippers of the seraphim, whose ritual dance expressed the dualism of beauty and terror.

Simon hid the fact that he was inordinately pleased by this. "Are we officially boyfriend and girlfriend? Is there a Shadowhunter ritual? Should I change my Facebook status from 'it's complicated' to 'in a relationship'?" Isabelle screwed up her nose adorably. "You have a book that's also a face?

Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.