Sentence examples for sacrificial ceremony from inspiring English sources

There is a sacrificial ceremony in his honour every year.

They then killed them in a sacrificial ceremony, stabbing them 666 times each in homage to the so-called Number of the Beast.

Before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the high priest performed an elaborate sacrificial ceremony in the Temple, successively confessing his own sins, the sins of priests, and the sins of all Israel.

The story arc's primary purpose was to introduce the main characters, six children who discover their parents are evil after seeing them murder a girl in a sacrificial ceremony.

They are always held after dark, alluding to sacrificial ceremonies.

During sacrificial ceremonies the vakk was carried around the farmstead to bestow its blessings upon it.

The sacrificial ceremonies performed annually in the groves were usually centred on some ancient tree dedicated to a deity.

Songs, instrumental music, and dance are mentioned as being an integral part of some of the sacrificial ceremonies.

Oxen were rare and normally used as work animals though they were occasionally used in sacrificial ceremonies.

De Anda and Montero theorize that the Maya used these caves as sundials and timekeepers, as well as in city planning and sacrificial ceremonies.

The political implications of sacrificial ceremonies would have been utilized by local chiefs as mechanisms for creating and maintaining alliances with imperial Cuzco.