The killing of an animal is the means by which its consecrated life is "liberated" and thus made available to the deity, and the destruction of a food offering in an altar's fire is the means by which the deity receives the offering.
Typical of this period was the elaborate ashvamedha, the horse sacrifice, in which a consecrated horse was freed and allowed to wander at will for a year; it was always followed by the king's troops, who defended it from all attack until it was brought back to the royal capital and sacrificed in a very complicated ritual.
Despite his idealistic stance, he believed language was not only a consecrated structure which embraced the essence of all existence, but that the crucial function of language remained that of denominating actualities (Gongsun Longzi CTP 2014: Ming shi lun, 13).
Despite his idealistic stance, he believed language was not only a consecrated structure which embraced the essence of all existence, but that the crucial function of language remained that of denominating actualities (Gongsun Longzi CTP: Bai ma lun, 4).
And then of course there was his consecrated physicality, which he used with unapologetic chutzpah and flare.
The Israelites had extensive rules to safeguard what was holy or consecrated, violation of which (especially of temple laws) often led to mob violence.
You don't even have sense enough to drink when somebody brings you a cup of consecrated chicken soup — which is the only kind of chicken soup Bessie ever brings to anybody around this madhouse".
But, unlike the books I had read at school, in Zipaquirá, which belonged in a mausoleum of consecrated authors, these were like bread warm from the oven, printed in Buenos Aires in new translations after the long publishing hiatus caused by the Second World War.
The municipality has 30 registered cultural monuments and 12 consecrated stone crosses, of which eight in Chiprovtsi.
This is presumed to have more power than the consecrated QSAR dogma of congenericity, which is not applicable for genotoxic effects.
