This was due to both the abandonment of several statutory ceremonies and procedures and the transfer of several remaining ceremonies into the smaller-scale setting of the Inner Palace.
Its popularity spread like wildfire, and drinking it became an art form in the eighth century, leading to the meditative Zen-influenced Japanese tea ceremony with its strict procedures for brewing, steeping and serving.
He disdains doctors who perform the bris, blurring the lines between a religious ceremony and a medical procedure.
In this proposed procedure, or ceremony, the mocking allusion to the Nazi obsession with German soil, evident in the slogan of "Blut und Boden" ("Blood and Soil"), seems clear enough.
Temple foundations and procedures, festival ceremonies, epidemics, impotence, family quarrels, countermagic, royal welfare, birth, insomnia, and the manipulation of deities are among the topics of Hittite ritual; in a class by itself is a funeral ritual for royalty, reminiscent of Homeric practices.
Its "capping" ceremony foreshadows similar puberty-triggered procedures forced on the kids in Scott Westerfeld's "Uglies" series, and in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
However, my son-in-law preferred to have my grandson circumcised at home by a mohel in a religious ceremony that followed modern medical procedures.
Routine becomes ceremony.
The ceremony took place outside the church's procedures, in which bishops are elected within their own dioceses and confirmed by the church's prelates.
