The Japanese custom of seppuku (also called hara-kiri), or self-disembowelment, was long practiced as a ceremonial rite among samurai.
Lviv is also base for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which in itself speaks to a melding: the church is loyal to Rome, but allows some priests to marry and follows the Eastern ceremonial rite.
"For those who are skilled enough and have developed the necessary abilities, it's really not worth all the effort of a ceremonial rite just to 'score a nice piece.'".
In ceremonial rites of initiation, men wear painted bark cloth masks and net costumes.
He also photographed ceremonial rites that some feel should never have been recorded.
He gives a few glimpses into the daily life, ceremonial rites, and superstitious customs of the inhabitants and frequently introduces legend and folklore.
Because her shows are ceremonial rites in which she channels the shades of show business past, Ms. Marcovicci might be described as the high priestess of the American songbook.
Even here, with the families, a version of the tourist binary emerged: insistence, with the civic envoy and the signage; reticence, with the succession of ceremonial rites; and, between these, nothing, no intelligible public transmission of private grief.
What seemed clear was that the Games and their ceremonial rites should go on, but the decision to reopen the sliding track on Saturday, less then 24 hours after Kumaritashvili's death, for two more training runs and then the first phase of the men's luge competition was much more difficult to understand.
Cultivation of reverence, originally a religious virtue associated with ancestor worship and ceremonial rites, as described in the classics and taught by Confucius (551 479 BCE), serves to purify the mind, attune one to the promptings of the original good nature, and set one to act with appropriateness (yi).
The eunuchs were divided into different directorates in charge of staff surveillance, ceremonial rites, food, utensils, documents, stables, seals, apparel, and so on.
