Such a view could certainly not have been held if the rituals of the two gods had not been so alike as to be almost indistinguishable.
At first it appears that there were two classes of gods recognized: Celestial and Terrestrial; and the old Shinto rituals (norito) maintain this distinction.
He did not hesitate to ask of his initiators the meaning of the parts of the rituals which he did not fully understand.
If the technologically advanced tribe is still at the ritual-taboo level, it will consider that all tribes which do not use the same Laws and Rituals as it does must be animals--dangerous animals that must be wiped out.
It seems to me that he would be able to judge that some races have different Laws and Ritualsthan he does.
It is probable that at one time a large collection of such psalms was made in Babylonia, and that those we have represent compositions made from the rituals of various temples.
Rituals were prepared to meet the various contingencies.
Through the incantation rituals we are enabled to specify the traits popularly ascribed to these demons and the means employed to rid oneself of their baneful grasp.
An analysis of one of these rituals will serve to illustrate this branch of the religious literature of the Babylonians.
Water and fire are the two great sources of symbolical purification that we meet with in both primitive and advanced rituals of the past.
Budge[1621] is of the opinion that many of the magic practices carried on in the Egyptian temples are to be traced back to the incantation rituals perfected by the Babylonian priests.
The rituals of the various temples once being fixed, the impulse to literary composition would still go on in an age marked by intellectual activity.
The amalgamation of the two may indeed be due to the growth of the incantation rituals of Babylon.
Manuscripts of this important class are not very accurately described as Rituals of the Dead; as Dr Budge points out they really consist of collections of psalms or sacred hymns which vary considerably in different manuscripts.
For the externals are rituals which with that people signified spiritual and celestial things.
Let not your knowledge and practice of the traditional rituals mislead you into thinking that you are on intimate terms with the spiritual world; treat the unseen Powers with all reverence but keep aloof from them.
How early these rituals of worship were committed to writing is an open question, but it is altogether probable that in substance they had been transmitted orally through many generations before they were put in written form.
Other rituals for other occasions and purposes furnish nothing of a different character or of exceptional importance that we need here give further attention to their various contents and suggestions.
Satow gives a list of the Norito rituals contained in the Yengishiki, to the number of twenty-seven.
More exalted than any mere forms of purification, or rituals of worship, is that notion of a living Presence concealed in all phenomena.
There are, in the voluminous Yengishiki, rituals for the service of the gods of Kasuga, for the service of the goddess of food, and of the gods of the wind, and for the service of particular temples.
The Ritual of the Great Purification and other rituals call Japan "the luxuriant reed-plain region of fresh young spikes.
The Tantras recognize that human beings are not equal and that codes and rituals must vary according to temperament and capacity.
Vishnu temples two rituals are used called Pâncarâtra and Vaikhânasa.
The rituals of the Mazdean and Hindu faiths were influenced by the ethical developments of the two, becoming simpler and more humane with the advance toward elevated conceptions of God and man.
Various nonsacrificial rituals (dances and so forth) are referred to above.
At a later period such functions were attributed to the well-developed gods of fertility; rituals sprang up and were explained by myths, and various combinations and identifications were made between the prominent gods.
To judge from the oldrituals Mars was in the earliest time of which there is any record a god of vegetation.
Either because running water was not always at hand, or as part of the growing tendency of the church to multiply ceremonies, rituals arose late in the 3rd century for consecrating water.
It is less than surprising then that changes in attitudes and rituals surrounding death among the Washo have changed very slowly.
Other rituals related to hunting dealt with the loss of hunting luck.
The Jewish synagogues have their eternal lamps and in their rituals fire and light have played prominent rôles.
Early in the fifth century the pope ordered that candles be blessed and provided rituals for this ceremony.
It is not altogether strange if Buddhist and Catholic rituals starting from the same elements ended by producing similar scenic effects.
And in the rituals recited when offerings are made to their deities, the jars of saké are enumerated among the things offered.
In the early rituals of the Shintō temples prayers were always offered for the five cereals.
Then they caused the rituals to be recited, and a dance to be danced, and all the assembled deities laughed aloud.
In religion, traditional values become embodied in fixed rituals of music, processional, and prayer.
Rites and rituals are used to secure the favor of the gods and any departure from traditional customs is looked upon as fraught with actual danger.
It is this power and beauty of renunciation that is the spiritual value behind all the rituals of sacrifice that still persist, as in the sacraments of Christianity.
And for all these enrichments and enlargements of life, he has rejoiced, and found rituals to express his rejoicings.
But the resemblance between the Babylonian and Hebrew rituals extends beyond the ceremonial of the temple of Solomon into the Levitical Law.
By the side of the ritualsfor the seers and prophets, moreover, there was another for the zammari or "singers.
There was the same similarity between the Babylonian rituals and the Mosaic Law; the priesthood, moreover, was established on the same lines, and the prophets and seers of Israel have their analogues in those of Chaldaea.
The Vedic period is followed by what is usually termed Brahmanism, the religion that is inculcated in the rituals called Br[=a]hmana and its later development in the Upanishads.
In the main, these books are rituals of song as inculcated for the same rites by different family priests and their descendants.
The performance of the rituals invariably produced certain mystic or magical results by virtue of which the object desired [Footnote 1: See S.
For not only are all Vedic duties to be performed according to its maxims, but even the sm.rti literatures which regulate the daily duties, ceremonials and rituals of Hindus even at the present day are all guided and explained by them.
The sacrificial creed was busy with individual rituals and sacrifices, and cared for principles or maxims only so far as they were of use for the actual performances of sacrifices.
They are written in prose, and explain the sacred significance of the different rituals to those who are not already familiar with them.
The material substances and the most elaborate and accurate sacrificial rituals lost their value and bare meditations took their place.
His one source of knowledge is Adolphe Ricoux; by some oversight he has not even the advantage of the rituals published by Leo Taxil.
I make no pretence to pass a precise judgment upon Leo Taxil, for I am not in a position to prove that the Palladian rituals which appear in "Are there Women in Freemasonry?
It does not attribute antiquity to the rituals which it uses.
The author tells us clearly enough how adoptive Masonry arose, what rites were instituted, what rituals published, what is contained in these, and it is all solid and instructive.
More especially, no such individual has ever called at his house, much less copied anyrituals of which he may be in possession.
For example, every one who knows anything of Goëtic literature is aware that the rituals of black magic incorporate heterogeneous elements from Kabbalistic sources, but to Mgr.
It is he who is the actual custodian of the diabolical rituals of Nick Stone; it is he who is the Supreme Magus of the Socinian Rose-Cross for England.
It was not because sacrilege and public indecency characterised the rituals of initiation in the case of the Palladian Order, for he does not zealously press this charge.
It is interesting to note how perfectly adapted the rituals of historic Christianity are to this end, of provoking the emergence of the intuitive mind and securing a state of maximum suggestibility.
Over and over again, rituals have dramatized this, desire and saints have surrendered to it.
The kiva rituals are rich in symbolism and last eight days, if young men are to be initiated, otherwise four.
And possibly some of the things we ask about are "not for the public" and may refer to the secret rituals that take place in the kivas, as in connection with many of their major ceremonials.
Hopi myths and rituals recognize the dependence of their whole culture on corn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rituals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: amenities; ceremony; civility; formalities; grace; rite; ritual
