There was a hazing period for initiates to the Lampoon.
Williams requires initiates to earn their stripes, doing background reading as well as looking.
"It relaxed the audience and allowed them to be initiates to a new experience," said Emanuel Azenberg, a producer.
Then there were the Elysian Fields, which Homer said were open only to heroes but in other accounts awaited initiates to the Eleusinian mysteries.
The cult's main purposes were to bring strength to young male initiates, to bring fertility to natural crops, and to ward off natural disasters.
Following his confident performance as one of a pair of new initiates to a sinister secret society in The Skulls (2000), he was cast as Brian O'Conner in The Fast and the Furious.
No, it was only Washington and as initiates to the city's tourist vagaries, we simply made do with the second-highest observation point of Washington: the clock tower of the pavilion at the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The purpose of the gnosis sent from the realms of divine light beyond the universe through the divine emanation (aeon) Christ was to enable Gnostic initiates to pass through the spheres of the Archons into the realms of light.
Thankfully, the author refrains from indulging in the sort of hagiography that marks so much sports writing, which makes this a great book for educated non-fans and recent initiates to American sports to kick off with.
Sebastian Junger ("First, the Ordeal," Op-Ed, March 11) suggests that hazing may be one of our society's forms of tribal initiation rites and that tribal rites of passage fostered an intense comradeship by reducing the initiates to a uniform and egalitarian condition.
On Sunday morning, believers clad in white to indicate their devotion to the voodoo of light, not darkness, gathered in the temple to dance and chant, shaking a finger in the air to affirm the oath they took as initiates to remain true to their faith.
