Sentence examples for official ritual from inspiring English sources

At the site of the last Shang capital, Yin, were discovered inscribed vessels of bronze, bone, pottery, jade, and stone, probably ceremonial in nature and related to official ritual uses such as ancestor worship.

In 2002, as an American travelling to the Islamic Republic of Iran, on a journalist's visa, I had undergone my own official ritual at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport.

In the protohistory and perhaps the prehistory of most ancient civilizations, people venerated trees, stones, bodies of water, and other natural objects, which gradually became the objects of established cults and which often were included, in some form, as aspects of later official ritual.

When a male child reaches his eighth birthday he undergoes the initiation thread ceremony variously known as Munja (in reference to the Munja grass that is of official ritual specification), Vratabandha, or Upanayanam.

Many cultures postpone until several days or weeks after an infant's birth official rituals like baptism, circumcision and naming ceremonies, Dr. Hrdy points out, perhaps in recognition that not every newborn is destined to be reared.

Chinese crowded the square to watch the dawn flag-raising ceremony that is now a fixture of official patriotic ritual.

Historically important in the cult of official state rituals, Mount Tai was the site of two of the most spectacular of all the ceremonies of the traditional Chinese empire.

When I ask how many members there are in the club, Yuri hesitates – he's not sure himself, as they have don't have official initiation rituals or ceremonies for new members, nor a patch.

When I ask how many members there are in the club, Yuri hesitates he's not sure himself, as they have don't have official initiation rituals or ceremonies for new members, nor a patch.

He alleges that Miscavige, in actions worthy of the Khmer Rouge, subjected his loyal officials to rituals of abuse, making them 'confess' to imagined crimes and assaulting them if they didn't comply.

"This time, we invited the mayor to lay the first foundations".During last December's Eid, the CRCM asked regional prefects to provide five extra official sites for ritual slaughter, to improve hygiene and stop sheep-killing at home.