Sentence examples for passage ceremony from inspiring English sources

My mother worked for the US State Dept and was present at the "safe passage" ceremony prior to departure as a 24-year old.

At its heart is a true story of a rite of passage ceremony carried out by the Muisca peoples who have lived in Central Colombia from AD800 to the modern day.

The vision quest is a rite of passage ceremony which includes three phases: severance, when you cut ties with your ordinary life; threshold, when you leave your community and spend solo time fasting and seeking your vision; and incorporation, when you return to your community and receive the wisdom of your elders through reflection so that you can bring your vision into the world.

"One day, I was watching a National Geographic special and saw that in almost every primitive culture, there was a rite of passage ceremony where the women would come together to honor a girl who had just started her period and teach her all about it," London wrote.

FGM forms an important part of the rites of passage ceremony, marking the coming of age of the female child [ 2].

Advocating a societal frame of protecting the community's health may encourage men who would have been circumcised in a traditional rite of passage ceremony to seek circumcision in a hygienic clinic, where safer sex education can also be provided.

Nice Nailantei Leng'ete tells us about the work she is doing in Kenya to bring about alternative rites of passage ceremonies to replace FGM.

The temple will provide followers of Iceland's old Norse religion with a place to hold their communal "blot" - or feasts - as well as marriages, name-giving ceremonies, funerals and rite of passage ceremonies for teenagers.

They can't access tree bark they need to make medicine, and they've had to abandon cultural customs such as rites of passage ceremonies.

Thandi and Niambi attend yearly festivals that are hosted by Pan-African organizations like Ankobea which promote healing, rite of passage ceremonies, and ancient African history (prior to chattel slavery in America).

A psychedelic journey beginning with a "Shamanistic rite-of-passage ceremony," and continuing through the sky and into the cosmos wowed attendees of Coachella's Antarctica dome, the largest-ever projection inside a geodesic dome.