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El depósito ritual. Una práctica mesoamericana de larga duración
Confluenze, 2016 Mesoamerica is a cultural area known by the resistance of several of its features to the passage of time. One of them remained in existence in the long duration: the "ritual deposit", also named offerings, is defined as a figurative ritual, based on ...
Danièle Dehouve
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Sacrifice and Natality: Surrogacy Structures
Open TheologyIn this article, I begin to unpick the complex relationships between birth and sacrifice, taking my cue from the strange surrogacy structures in the textual triptych Genesis 21-23 (the expulsion [“sacrifice”] of Ishmael and Hagar, the surrogate mother ...
Sherwood Yvonne
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011 In this article, I argued that the performances of the ritual sacrifice of burning the heifer [isitshisa] and worship, held annually at Mlazi in Durban by the members of the Corinthian Church of South Africa, has social implications.
Henry Mbaya
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After Sacrifice: Deeds and words for protection and cure
Suomen Antropologi, 2017 The article examines how ritual, particularly ritual healing, becomes transnational and how the change impacts on its efficacy. It is based on a multi-sited ethnography with the objective of tracing the shifting status of ideas and practices of efficacy ...
Marja-Liisa Honkasalo
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Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) signals reduced from Gayatri Mantra fire oblations during Yagya
Interdisciplinary Journal of Yagya Research, 2019 Galvanik skin response (GSR) is the measurement of the autonomic activation of sweat glands in the skin for depicting stress, emotional arousal and relaxation pattern. Yagya is a vedic ritual composed of various rhythmic chanting of mantra.
Vikash Kumar +2 more
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European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2017 Based on a fieldwork conducted in 2014 in Istanbul before, during and after the Kurban Bayramı (3rd-7th October), this article explores the transformations of the Feast of the Sacrifice, through the crossed examination of its media and advertising image,
Olivier Givre
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Iconic Reflection of Mithraic Sacrifice - Myth of Slaying the First Bull (EvagdaÌt) - The Seven Beauties â Nizami [PDF]
متن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2015 The most secret and most wonderful story of Mehr is the fight with the primitive cow. Mithra makes the earth to flourish and fertilize by killing the eternal cow and pouring its blood.
mabobe khorasani +3 more
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Inner iconoclasm. Forms of reflexivity in Loma rituals of sacrifice
Social Anthropology, 2002 La religion loma, qui implique des mascarades et des cultes secrets, s'est preservee presque entierement, malgre les interdictions successives qui frapperent les pratiques religieuses locales dans la Republique de Guinee durant les decades qui suivirent l'independance. L'A. s'attache a expliquer l'immunite apparente a ces pratiques iconoclastes par une
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The Iconography of Birds Offered at the Temple After Childbirth in Byzantine Art
Palmet DergisiThe continuation of the lineage through childbirth and the role of motherhood are among the most significant attributes that sanctify a woman. By nature, the menstrual cycle and postpartum bleeding have led, especially in monotheistic religions, to the ...
Ozan Hetto
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Reconsider the Meaning of Scapegoat Ritual in Leviticus 16:20-22
Dunamis: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan KristianiThe scapegoating ritual in Leviticus 16 is central to ancient Jewish religion as part of the Yom Kippur celebration. The sacrifice of a scapegoat thrown into the desert is a unique ritual because it only appears in Leviticus 16 of the entire biblical ...
Klementius Anselmus Loba +2 more
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