Sentence examples for cult practices from inspiring English sources

Usually the degree of representation occurring in cult practices and the depiction of mythical themes has been considerably less humanistic.

Grim Reapers abound, grinning and wearing cloaks that say "UNFAMILIAR FOOD," "SICKO CULT PRACTICES," or "CHATTY LOCALS".

Research in the 20th century emphasized shamanistic traits deriving from the ecstatic cult practices of Thracian medicine men in the early Pythagorean outlook.

His works refer, more or less cryptically, to odd rituals, cult practices, sexual subcultures and loads of art history, which he cribs freely.

Evidences for ancestor cult practices dating to the 7th century bce were first discovered at Jericho in Palestine, where several skulls were found to have been deposited in a separate room, some of them covered with a plastic modelling of faces similar to that found on the ancestral skulls preserved by present-day agrarian peoples of South Asia and Oceania.

As a Trinidad Guardian reporter, Seepersad, who had a horror of Indian cult magic, possibly linked to a conflict with his wife's primitive beliefs, had written a number of articles exposing the use of Kali cult practices to fight diseases in cattle.

It was only then that the Believers began to emerge as a distinct cult with a distinct cult practice — a religious sect gathered around a single charismatic figure.

With a title character named for the biblical idol synonymous with evil (whose cult practiced ceremonial fornication and child sacrifice), Brecht deliberately set out to shock his audiences.

Heka, also spelled hike, in ancient Egyptian religion, the personification of one of the attributes of the creator god Re-Atum; the term is usually translated as "magic," or "magical power," though its exact meaning pertains to cult practice as well.

He agrees, stumbling upon a Thuggee cult practicing child slavery, black magic, and ritual human sacrifice in honor of their god Kali.

Candi Sukuh temple of Ngancar, East Java, was built in the 10th century and is dedicated to Shiva and is evidence of Tantric ritual in Hinduism and the fertility cult practiced at the time and preoccupation with the lingga.