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... Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India is one of his famous books. This book deals with the innumerable rites, rituals, customs, spiritual beliefs, superstitions, omens and such other themes connected to the antiquity of the southern parts of the subcontinent. He has done very detailed descriptive writings on such subjects as omens...

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...In ordinary language people who practice rituals are called religious people. Practice of true religion should bring some result. If someone insults us & that affects us then religion we have practiced has not brought any result. What is religion? Because of which i...

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... the structure of a human society. Belief systems influence the architecture of our buildings, the food we eat, legal systems we follow, our customs, rituals we observe and how we behave”. ...

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...What wisdom lies behind the pilgrimage? What benefit comes from its strange rituals? Why should the pilgrim dress in white, untailored cloth? What is the wisdom of circumambulating a big stone named Al-Ka’ba? What does the hajji (pilgrim) benefit from kissing the Black Stone? What is the purpose ...

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...THE TREASURE There are six underground vaults below this temple and four of them are opened occasionally for maintaining rituals and for taking our precious objects meant for rituals. Among the six kallaras or chambers in the Temple, Bharatakkon Kallara (Chamber B) is very closely associated with Sri Padmanabhaswamy. It is not a part of the Tem...

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...üyük Doğu Krizinden Önce Karadağ-Türk İlişkileri Ivan Tepavčević 323 Rites and Tradition of the Polish Tatars: From Religious Holidays to Everyday Rituals Polonyalı Tatarların Adetleri ve Gelenekleri: Dini Bayramlardan Günlük Ritüellere Barbara Pawlic-Miśkiewicz 343 Polish Tatars: A Dash of Orient in the Homogeneous Polish Society Polonyalı Tatarlar: Homojen Polonya...

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...es to attempt a resolution on these questions by reviewing the ethnological history of the Hawaiian peoples as contained in their ancient traditions, rituals and epic poetry. It is the purpose of these articles to present the Hawaiian royal traditions unconfounded by the elements and theology of Christianity or the insidious influence of other cultural philosophies. It i...

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...身 Chapter 4 On reading·독서·讀書 Chapter 5 On how to treat parents·사친·事親 Chapter 6 On the rites of funerals·상제·喪祭 Chapter 7 On the rites of ancestral rituals·제례·祭禮 Chapter 8 On how to reside in one’ s own house·거가·居家 Chapter 9 On how to treat others·접인·接人 Chapter 10 On the conduct of life·처세·處世 ...

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...sh labour up river against the current. He wondered why nature had made them work so hard to spawn, while other animals mated without more than minor rituals, especially humans. As he moved further down steam he spied many fish who had died on the journey but there was one that was caught among the rocks and struggling to get free. The boy waded into the shallow water to ...

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...aste of the body burns, body remains healthy, awareness increases and this awareness is helpful in practicing celibacy and one can practice religious rituals in a better way. That is why it is said that ‘one should fast according to Gnani’s instruction for spiritual progress and for physical health one should fast according to doctor’s instruction then that penance done th...

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...ice, Insistence on what one believes to be the truth, Possessiveness. Astrologers often say that certain planet is affecting us, so we should perform rituals to get peace, don't they? But is this all true? Astrology is true, it is mathematics. But it is true only as long as the knower of it, the astrologer is true. In reality, it is only the planets within us that affect u...

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...aste of the body burns, body remains healthy, awareness increases and this awareness is helpful in practicing celibacy and one can practice religious rituals in a better way. That is why it is said that ‘one should fast according to Gnani’s instruction for spiritual progress and for physical health one should fast according to doctor’s instruction then that penance done th...

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...stian communities. The text, parts of which may have constituted the first written catechism, has three main sections dealing with Christian lessons, rituals such as baptism and eucharist, and Church organization. It was considered by some of the Church Fathers as part of the New Testament but rejected as spurious or non-canonical by others, eventually not accepted into th...

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...of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of civilisation and barbarism, and the frighteningly fine line between them. We get the tale through a classic unreliable narrator, relating as Marlow, a ship’s captain, tells how he was sent by the Company to retriev...

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...aste of the body burns, body remains healthy, awareness increases and this awareness is helpful in practicing celibacy and one can practice religious rituals in a better way. That is why it is said that ‘one should fast according to Gnani’s instruction for spiritual progress and for physical health one should fast according to doctor’s instruction then that penance done th...

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...kistan). Right from his childhood, he started questioning the meaningless rituals and practices prevalent in both the main societies of Hindus and ... ...f Truth in such a simple but compelling manner. It does not prescribe any rituals to be observed, but on the other hand, it urges us to abdicate al... ...rituals to be observed, but on the other hand, it urges us to abdicate all rituals. It teaches the devotees how to approach the Almighty God through...

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...ckers drowned. Manic dances - sometimes in the form of ecstatic but structured rituals - often resulted in death. The dancers - many of them ha... ... A few tribes in Amazonian Ecuador used to shrink heads as part of their post war rituals. Visit the links below for additional ethnological and a...

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...s been in use, but in the past they were used primarily for medicine and rituals, while today they are being used at a much earlier age, primarily ... ...e studied. It has nothing to do with charms, blessings, or other items or rituals done in its name. The misconceptions regarding Kabbalah originate ...

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...ed for us by those who ascribe nothing to faith and everything to works and rituals, whereas we owe everything to faith alone and nothing to rituals....

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...ys been in use, but in the past they were used primarily for medicine and for rituals, while today they are being used at a much earlier age, primar...