Thus water was first and foremost 'owned' by the gods and only in the second instance controlled by those who were blessed by them and acted on their behalf, namely priests of "water temples" that were, according to Lansing (1991) responsible for the coordination and ritual regulation of the flow of irrigation water, and also kings and their local representative nobles.
No records are kept of circumcisions performed outside of hospitals and there is no regulation of ritual practitioners.
Santorum denounces environmental activism for subordinating people to nature in pagan rituals masquerading as environmental regulations.
Beliefs about TB causation also extended to stress, overwork, not getting enough rest, hereditary causes and " kastom": "A person who usually practice[s] kastom rituals not following his regulations or rules of the specific kastom will be sick of TB".
— For Freddie Roach, wrapping the hands of boxers is a daily ritual, governed by rules and regulations, done quickly and efficiently, a simple form of art.
He devoted special attention to the regulation of prayer ritual, which had become all-important since the cessation of sacrificial worship.
The measure, which Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg strongly supports, would probably be the first governmental regulation of the ritual in the United States, rabbis say.
Nicola di Cosmo of the Institute for Advanced Studies comments that once Manchu rituals were codified into formal regulations, they became "mere simulacra of the ancestral cults" and lost their place at the center of the spiritual life of Manchu clans.
In general, Liji underscores moral principles in its treatment of such subjects as royal regulations, development of rites, ritual objects and sacrifices, education, music, the behaviour of scholars, and the doctrine of the mean (zhongyong).
In both forms of liturgy, there are rules, regulations, customs, and habits which figure significantly in the ritual enactments of the liturgy.
