- by
ritual purification (ritual bathing).
There are
various kinds of
purificatory rituals ****ociated with
death ceremonies.
After visiting a
house where...
-
Antiquities 3.248. "The
guests ****embled for the
banquet have been
cleansed by
purificatory lustrations, and are there...to
fulfill with
prayers and
hymns the custom...
- goddess", and Plutarch's
observation that in
Boeotia dogs were
killed in
purificatory rites. Dogs, with
puppies often mentioned, were
offered to
Hecate at...
-
evidence ought to have been
apparent from the start. The
divinatory and
purificatory rituals on 31
October could be
explained by a
connection to the most...
- the
founder of
priestly poetry in Attica. He
composed dedicatory and
purificatory hymns and
prose treatises, and
oracular responses. A semimythological...
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wheels of the cart.
Ezekiel depicts the
destruction of
Jerusalem as a
purificatory sacrifice upon the altar, made
necessary by the
abominations in the Temple...
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elements like cinnabar, lead, mercury, and realgar, as well as
ritual and
purificatory practices.
After this point,
Taoism did not have
nearly as significant...
-
hands over the
flame and then
raise their palms to
their forehead – the
purificatory blessing, p****ed from the deity's
image to the flame, has now been p****ed...
-
grossly misinterpreted the sources.
Baptism is
clearly rooted in
Jewish purificatory rituals, and cult
meals are so
widespread in
antiquity that any specific...
-
Testament teachings such as
baptism by fire, from the Gospels, and a
purificatory trial after death, from St. Paul. Origen, in
arguing against soul sleep...
