Sentence examples for ancient rites from inspiring English sources

Music, ancient rites, stunt performances.

At last this attempt to evoke ancient rites seemed only a curiosity.

As more people began assimilating economically and socially, the need to depend on the ancient rites and traditions of the old-time religion decreased.

Descendants of the Mayans greeted the date with a shrug, or for the dwindling numbers still practicing ancient rites, with solemn, more closed ceremonies.

At times as they leap in and out of one another's paths, feinting and arrowing their arms, they look like tribal warriors engaged in ancient rites.

Millions of hajj pilgrims are preparing to head home, after five days performing ancient rites, revering a God omnipresent in the city of Mecca.

War loot is an ancient rite.

I felt as if I had passed some ancient rite or earned some essential vindication.

The satanic rap was merely the latest illustration of the renewed fascination with the ancient rite of exorcism.

But the ancient rite, common in the Nile Valley and other parts of Africa, has remained particularly prevalent in Egypt.

An ancient rite that continues Jesus' ministry of healing, the sacrament is directed against "the remains of sin".