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Propitiation is the act of
appeasing or
making well-disposed a deity, thus
incurring divine favor or
avoiding divine retribution.
While some use the term...
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administer religious rites; in particular,
rites of
sacrifice to, and
propitiation of, a
deity or deities.
Their office or
position is the 'priesthood'...
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decided to gain a boon of
invulnerability by
performing a
penance to
propitiate Brahma.
After his
subjugation of the
three worlds, he is
slain by the...
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practised along with nat worship,
which involves elaborate rituals to
propitiate one from a
pantheon of 37 nats. In a
traditional village, the monastery...
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Bhatta had
performed the
ceremony at an inau****ious hour and
neglected to
propitiate the
spirits adored in the Tantra. That was why, he said, the
queen mother...
- or coerces"
these spirits while religion focuses on "conciliating or
propitiating them". He
acknowledged that
their common ground resulted in a cross-over...
- Jesus'
death and resurrection. His
death was an
expiation as well as a
propitiation, and by Christ's
blood peace is made
between God and man. By grace, through...
- brothers,
Vibhishana and Kumbhakarna,
performed a
penance in
order to
propitiate Brahma, the
creator deity offered each a boon. The
devas pleaded with...
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sculptor needed to fell a tree or cut a rock from a hill, he
would propitiate the tree or rock with prayers, s****ing
forgiveness for
cutting it from...
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regions of the province, from the
coast to the
peaks of the
Sierra Nevada propitiates a
great variety of raw materials: vegetables,
meats and sausages, and...
