Sentence examples for ritual orientation from inspiring English sources
The ancient agricultural fertility significance of the dance has disappeared, but there remains in the number of dancers four or six the pre-Christian ritual orientation to the four points of the compass plus the zenith and the nadir.
Midway through the Falcons' six weeks of spring-training sessions — each N.F.L. team's yearly padless orientation ritual — Pat had just got what all first-year players in the N.F.L. most crave: a play, a "rep".
Once students have arrived at their chosen campus, however, except for perhaps the first week orientation rituals, do the students actually develop ties to their campus built heritage?
Examples of ritual time and ritual space orientation can be found in the rituals for building the sacrifice in Brahmanic Indian ritual texts, for the building of a Christian cathedral, and for consecrating those structures that symbolize a definite space time orientation in which rituals are enacted.
The shape, spatial orientation, and location of the ritual setting are essential features of the semantics of ritual action.
Time and place are essential features of ritual action, and both mark a specific orientation or setting for ritual.
With the change in devotees, the mode of worship and festivals has changed from that of Hindu orientation to one that accommodates Buddhist rituals and theology.
Students have compared different ideas around ritual ablution and had to work together how to orient so many rooms eastwards (as seems to be the prayer orientation of so many of our communities).
IT IS a ritual capping a ritual.
