Sentence examples for sacred well from inspiring English sources

(The word cenote, pronounced suh-NOH-tee, comes from the Maya dzonot, which means sacred well).

The city centres upon the Ḥaram Mosque, the Great Mosque, in which are situated the Kaʿbah and the sacred well of Zamzam.

The city centres on the Ḥaram Mosque, also called the Great Mosque, in which are situated the Kaʿbah and the sacred well of Zamzam.

These objects are remarkable for having been cut, torn, broken, and burned before they were thrown into the green waters of the sacred well at Chichen Itza.

Within the grounds of this luxury hotel, remains of an ancient Maya pyramid and a cenote, a sacred well, lie close to the elegant 19th-century salons of the estate's former "great house".

She looked young enough to be a sacrifice in the sacred well at Chichen Itza.

Back on the road I passed a water well, doubtless one of the "sacred wells" that Synge mentions in his account.

Bloodless human sacrifices also developed and assumed greatly different forms: e.g., a Celtic ritual involved the sacrifice of a woman by immersion, and among the Maya in Mexico young maidens were drowned in sacred wells; in Peru women were strangled; in ancient China the king's retinue was commonly buried with him, and such internments continued intermittently until the 17th century.

Their quotidian fixations and pious self-posturing achieve a magnificently improbable universality: look past the talk of seaweed farming and pilgrimages to sacred wells, and you start to sense that the corpses' gripes and tall-tales — about drunken excursions, sticky-fingered neighbors, scheming paramours — are the same ones heard at bars and bus stops from Baltimore to Beijing.

Their quotidian fixations and pious self-posturing achieve a magnificently improbable universality: look past the talk of seaweed farming and pilgrimages to sacred wells, and you start to sense that the corpses' gripes and tall-tales about drunken excursions, stall-tales abouteighbors, scheming paramours—are the same ones heardrunkenrs and bus stops from Baltimorexcursionsng.

For centuries, the crystal-clear groundwater pools were used as sacred wells by the Maya where they performed offerings and spiritual rituals to communicate with the gods.