Sentence examples for drinking ceremony from inspiring English sources

They also have rites for vision and divination, sometimes with the aid of a vision-inducing communal drinking ceremony.

In its large courtyard and salon we were welcomed with a traditional tea drinking ceremony, then shown to our suite, which had antique red carpets, a large four-poster bed and locally made black olive soap in the bathroom.

Piranaga, along with other indigenous communities of the Upper and Lower Putumayo region, such as Siona, Cofán, Ingas and Huitoto may practice the yagé drinking ceremony up to three or four times in a single day, as proof of ancestral endurance.

Description of the temple and a tea-drinking ceremony.

Kayvon Pourazar, in jeans and blue shirt, kneels, his contained hand gestures suggestive of a tea-drinking ceremony.

He flicks through production photos on his laptop: a murder scene in a hospital, a blood-drinking ceremony with hypodermic syringes.

But both were outdated and I'd gotten better leads about Vava'u's main town, Nei'afu, from the travelers in Ha'apai, who'd told me about the great German bakery, about where I could arrange to attend a Tongan feast and kava-drinking ceremony, about the hot bars on the waterfront and the best place to stay.

Rugby teams at universities have developed such a close association with heavy-drinking initiation ceremonies that last year the RFU, Rugby's governing body in England, estimated that 10,000 school leavers had stopped playing rugby rather than put themselves through the humiliation of initiation.

Rugby teams at universities have developed such a close association with heavy-drinking initiation ceremonies that last year the RFU, Rugby's governing body in England, estimated that 10,000 students had stopped playing rugby rather than put themselves through the humiliation of initiation.

All involved then take part in a ceremony, drinking a bitter herbal concoction and eating together in a token of reconciliation.

Having surveyed the Hello! coverage, Mr Vishnu Khandelwal judges the couple's sins to have included wearing leather footwear at certain prohibited points in the ceremony, drinking alcohol before the exchange of vows, and not both being fully converted to Hinduism.