In many sacrifices, branches or leaves of sacred plants, such as the kusha plant (a sacred grass used as fodder) of the Vedic sacrifice and the Brahmanic puja (ritual), are used in rituals such as the Zoroastrian sprinkling (bareshnum), or great purification, rite, in which the notion of fertility and prosperity is combined with their sacred characters (see purification rite).
Miss Rand was only six when she caught the sacred fire, seeing Pavlova in the Dying Swan.
Here the sacred is seen to be manifested in the order of the social physical universe, in which these tribal members live.
The Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans were all versed in composting, and Cleopatra is said to have declared worms sacred after seeing them engaged in the practice.
The most audacious slaughter of sacred cows seen on celluloid, it's a cackling, gleeful hail of precision-aimed bullets, full of brains and ambition.
In the Western religions, "sacred" is seen as distinct from "mundane".
The name comes from the sacred symbolism seen in the flower's parts, which reminded the 17th century Spanish discoverers of the Passion of Christ.
They may self-identify as witches, Wiccan, Druid, heathen or follow any polytheistic or pantheistic tradition that holds the earth as sacred and sees masculine and feminine forms of divinity.
"I hear his sacred heart and see his eyes closing as he falls asleep.
For most Indians, meat is a rarity, except on festive occasions the cow is considered sacred in Hinduism (see sanctity of the cow).
