OM purrnamadaH... OM bhadraM karNebhiH... svasti na indro... OM sarve bhavantu sukhinaH... OM asatomaa sadgamaya... OM tatsatbrahmaarpaNamastu. Pooja is the act of showing reverence to a god, a spirit, or another aspect of the divine through invocations, prayers, songs, and rituals.
On Tuesday, Tortorella's invocation of prayer was hardly the sum total of his strategic approach.
He often appealed to ancient Zoroastrian motifs, terminology and mythical figures, even Mazdean theology, e.g., in his Invocations and Prayers (Suhrawardi, 1976; cf. with occult and devotional works unearthed by Walbridge, 2011).
We also now accept without question invocations and prayers at the ceremonies to swear in our leaders.
Specific invocations or prayers should be recited, and spells should be cast at this time.
The comparison to an Oscar speech is easy but bogus; it's much more like an invocation, a quick prayer of thanks offered up to your ancestors before you paddle your canoe over the falls.
A few weeks ago I was asked to give the invocation, an opening prayer, at an annual event to celebrate the accomplishments of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Social Responsibility.
Perhaps emboldened by that, Moore took it a step further and criticized the Huntsville, Alabama, practice of allowing Wiccans and atheists to offer the prayer invocation at the start of city council meetings.
Pagan ritual may include elements of "grounding and centering", "calling the quarters", breathwork, meditation, prayer, invocations, singing, chanting, dancing, drumming, pouring libations, making offerings to a fire, enactments of symbolic dramas, and sharing food and drink.
