Sentence examples for rite of initiation from inspiring English sources
"It is a participation in a rite of initiation.
Like statues, they are consecrated by the rite of "initiation of breath," pranapratishtha (see also prayer).
The Hindu rite of initiation (upanayama) is another direct survival of Vedic tradition.
It derives its name from an astonishing fresco depicting a rite of initiation into Dionysus's cult that covers the walls of a triclinium, a dining room.
The rock concert, once a raucous and often drug-filled rite of initiation into American adolescence, is slowly becoming a family affair.
Writer takes the same walk every year at this time, not to go shopping, but as a sort of private rite of initiation into the holiday season.
Such objects play a secondary role in all such rites, which include rites of initiation, marriage, and death.
In ceremonial rites of initiation, men wear painted bark cloth masks and net costumes.
"If you look at rites of initiation in the world, they always involve hazing," Lincoln Keiser, an anthropology professor at Wesleyan University, told me.
In Classical Greece and the Hellenistic world, rites of initiation were undergone for the sake of having mystical experiences and gaining knowledge of the mysteries.
In antiquity and among prehistoric cultures, ceremonial whippings were performed in rites of initiation, purification, and fertility, which often included other forms of physical suffering.
