But the combination of a deeply superstitious rural population and a willful clergy has led to the spread of more elaborate practices in recent years.
Worship of the gods involved sacrifices (including human), chants and recitations, feasting (often with great prodigality), ritual sex (to promote fertility), and other elaborate practices, often preceded by long fasting and abstinence.
Very refined elaborate practices of exclosure of young or overgrazed trees by means of stone walls ('tahboucht' in Berber), and of shaping and linking twigs in order to favour twig anastomosis, are sometimes employed by the local population in order to preserve and prepare them for improved forage, and pole or beam production (Genin and Alifriqui, in press).
Elaborate cultic practices surround those sources of water that have been the scenes of epiphanies (manifestations of deities or sacred beings) or in which divinities are believed to dwell.
These strategies will be used to elaborate individual practice concepts as a further step of tailoring in the delivery phase of the intervention [ 24].
Mortuary rites involved elaborate mourning practices that differed in particulars from region to region but shared certain major features.
However, I am interested in the periods leading up to farming – the 10,000 years or so prior – when these changes first manifest in the archaeological record in the form of intensified plant use, increased sedentism and population aggregations, architecture, complex site organization, far-reaching social interaction networks, and elaborate mortuary practices.
Maher's work focuses on the periods leading up to farming – the 10,000 years or so prior – when these changes first manifest in the archaeological record in the form of intensified plant use, increased sedentism and population aggregations, architecture, complex site organization, far-reaching social interaction networks, and elaborate mortuary practices.
Further investigation – combining qualitative and quantitative data – of how the advanced stoves integrate into daily routines may help elaborate best practices for exposure reductions and inform future stove designs.
Erectile dysfunction (ED) prevalence is usually based on questionnaires, too elaborate for daily practice.
To deal with such causes there are many varieties of indigenous healers who practice elaborate rituals on behalf of both the physically ill and the mentally afflicted.
