Quotes About Rituals

It's just another party," Clearsight said, laughing. "The queen seems to have one every other night. There's a full moon, let's celebrate! A second full moon, celebrate again! Her oldest son's hatching day, time for a party! One of her daughters sneezed, someone alert the chefs we need a cake! It's kind of exhausting.

the church doctrines of sin and salvation are based upon pre-Christian conceptions ultimately dating back to human sacrifices and the mystic rites of cannibalism in which man hoped to partake of divinity and immortality by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of his incarnated God or his representative.

glittering mortuary masks, items harvested from ruins and tombs all over Mexico.

covert rituals.

A day or so later, the formal celebrations ended, less raucously, with ritual all-nighters at grave sites in rural villages outside Oaxaca bidding the dead farewell.

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after the ancient ondul fashion.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

There were at least four contexts in which San shamans acquired insights into the spiritual world: – the trance dance, – special curing rituals, – viewing rock art, and – dreams.

las democracias verdaderas se esfuerzan por integrar a las mayorías a unos modelos de educación, de salud, de higiene, de construcción de rituales compartidos

The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.

When he was a boy, he had heard about people who handled snakes as part of their worshippin'.

The unnatural principle of human sacrifice was carried by the British Druids to a ruthless pitch. The mysterious priesthoods of the forests bound themselves and their votaries together by the most deadly sacrament that men can take. Here, perhaps, upon these wooden altars of a sullen island, there lay one of the secrets, awful, inflaming, unifying, of the tribes of Gaul. And whence did this sombre custom come?

When she grew up, no drinking her orange juice or chocolate milk out of glasses that were once Yahrzeit candles.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust in one another. It's home. You belong and are accepted, which rings true no matter where you are.

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.

Traditions have got a lot to answer for. They lose their meaning and we cling on to something that does more harm than good.

En aquello que los hombres toman por misterios sagrados se inician impíamente

What for do we nail down the dead?

Without their regular feasts, the faithful are unstrung from the calendar, awash in a sea of days that are all the same.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead.