For Graham fans, two of her pieces, "Diversion of Angels" and the rarely seen "Rite of Spring," are scheduled, along with "Lamentation Variations," a suite of dances by Bulareyaung Pagarlava, Richard Move and Larry Keigwin inspired by the famous Graham solo "Lamentation".
For an overview of various eschatologies from a cross-cultural perspective, see death rite: Death rites and customs.
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).
These events represent "crises"—i.e., turning points when the human relation to the sacred becomes a matter of special concern (see also rite of passage).
Among some African tribes, such as the Ndebele of Zimbabwe, funeral processions, sacrifices, ceremonial washings, and protective medicine are included in the festivities that symbolically celebrate man's conquest over death (see also rite of passage ).
We see a rite of passage, and it seems like these players — arranged in a tidy pattern as they stretch out on the turf or scattered across the diamond before rows of empty seats — will be rewarded for their time served.
Paprocki is eager to see "The Rite".
I'd hate to see this rite of spring disappear.
He suggested that school officials bore some responsibility and that it was wrong to see initiation rites as an aberration at Trumbull High.
