Search results for "Initiation ceremony" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • of using ritual washing as one part of a ceremony to remove sin or disease: ... Many Christian churches also practice a ceremony of the Washing of ...
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  • of Gujarat and India. The installation ceremony of the murti forms in the ... and devotional fervor of the installation ceremony. Swaminarayan also installed ...
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  • their name. There are usually various initiation rituals for new member ... rituals most often encompass an initiation ceremony, but may also include ...
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  • a goal that is achieved through initiation (for ordained followers ... For lay practitioners, there is no initiation ceremony beyond the Kechien ...
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  • began to ripen they held a green corn ceremony. The Osage had sacred fires ... of the eldest son." During the ceremony a new drum keeper, always ...
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  • A person may also change their name upon initiation into a kachina society. ... at the Bean Dance (Spring Bean Planting Ceremony) and Home Dance Ceremony ...
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  • in many stages. The sacred space for the ceremony is demarcated by geometric ... or Dakini is required at High Tantric initiation and also at the Tantric ...
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  • one will instruct the boy through the ceremony to follow. The boy will ... The Zuni participate in the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremony. ...
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  • Lingadharane refers the ceremony of initiation among Lingayats. Usually performed when a child reaches three to eight days old, the baby receives ...
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  • Vaishnavas commonly follow a process of initiation (diksha) given by a guru ... student until they are ready for full initiation into the Pancharatra fold. ...
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  • between the description of an initiation ceremony of new members in the Community Rule and Josephus' (a Jewish-Roman historian of the time ...
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  • songs, Japanese traditional dance, tea ceremony, literature, and poetry ... makeup almost constantly. During her initiation, the maiko is helped with ...
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  • the knights correspond to their level of initiation into the Order. Further ... Daniel Colwell, believed that the initiation ceremony should be held in ...
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  • and borrowers at the prize awarding ceremony held at Oslo City Hall. ... In a speech given at the presentation ceremony, Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs ...
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  • invitation, Vittal attended the naming ceremony of Namdev’s child in the ... After initiation by Visoba, Namdev became more philosophical and broadminded ...
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  • The Greek and Roman cult of Isis developed a series of initiation ... They said that undergoing the initiation guaranteed to them a blessed ...
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  • plenty." This was the first hogan-raising ceremony. ... Examples include the Hooghan Blessing Ceremony, the "Baby's First ...
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  • of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the initiation ceremony for the cult of Demeter ... The Kykeon that preceded initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries ...
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  • in people's lives. The dances of initiation, or rites of passage, are ... exceptions of spiritual, religious, or initiation dances, there are traditionally ...
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  • priest's address during the Yasna ceremony, which typically honors ... Naojot, the Zoroastrian initiation rite, involves a child between ...
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