Others believe the urns were used as distilling vessels during the early stages of funeral rites.
On Lunar New Year and the autumn harvest holiday Chuseok, the entire country takes part in ancestor rites.
He now has an actual congregation and has performed weddings, baptisms and funeral rites.
An original genre, Katta Ashula combines performing arts, singing, instrumental music, Eastern poetry and sacred rites.
Whisking eggs, slicing onions, buttering toast there's an optimistic rhythm to the rites of breakfast.
Many tribes engage in magical rites and believe that the spirits of their ancestors surround them.
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Lawrence Solan administered last rites at Aspen Valley hospital and presided over communion for 15 family members.
Hazing putting new recruits through often violent initiation rites has become less common since the rise of the lawsuit.
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To go online we would venture in and shut the door to perform the ancient initiation rites.
As for the old, they had rites of their own and did not need to wait for evening.
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The Greek Catholics, who follow Orthodox-style rites but are loyal to the Vatican, re-established their church in 1991.
Which helps explain why they channel their frustrations into those bizarre religious rites that so charm the tourists.
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The changes gave the church full legal status, removed restrictions on its rites, and allowed priests to vote.
Mauritius is tolerant, colourful, cosmopolitan, and its calendar is filled with a huge array of festivals, rites and observances.
And I suddenly remembered our recent conversation in catechism class about last rites.
Islam scholar Andrew Bostom raises the question whether such rites actually included shariah-conforming denunciations of Christians and Jews?
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Different as they are, one thing all funeral rites have in common is cost: nowhere are they getting cheaper.
On Saturdays, we have services and bury the dead and have funeral rites and on Sundays we have thanksgiving services.
These sorts of conspicuous celebrations of consumption often seem less like life-altering rites, and more like the ultimate consumer experience.
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The body was taken in a hearse from Bangalore airport to Mr Pal's home before the last rites were performed.
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NPC, with all its rites and incantations, is meant to suggest permanence and continuity: stability in a sea of change.
We watch for backstories, icons, rites of passage, quotable quotes and if they stumble, we are able to forgive and forget.
Take documentary photographers Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith, who have spent seven years recording 90 ceremonial rites of passage in Africa.
Its legislative system comprises a body of principles, procedures and rites that govern the social and spiritual conduct of the community.
The queen pressed her advantage by asking for a road to the cave where she liked to practise her rainmaking rites.
For British Hindus this was only one advance in their campaign to be free to practise their religion's full funereal rites.
Take documentary photographers Angela Fisher and Carol Beck with, who have spent seven years recording 90 ceremonial rites of passage in Africa.
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