8 sentences with 'rites'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rites and other words derived from it.
• « The Assyrian-Babylonian rites of Tammuz and Ishtar - originating before 4,000 BC - are one of the earliest examples of allegories of the death of a god. »
• « Similar rites are found in religions such as Mithraism and Hermeticism and in places such as India, Tibet and Scandinavia, as well as in some African tribes and societies of pre-Columbian times. »
• « In cultures of all ages there were also so-called rites of passage cults involving social groups and consisting of a major transformation in times of major biological transition. »
• « The Rite of Spring was a ballet depicting the fertility rites of the ancient Scythians, the nomadic people native to southern Russia in the ancient past. »
• « As he approached, my wife and son, respectful of the rites of the martial arts, stood at attention and then bowed in reverence. Dave nodded and went into the house. »
• « Other observers recounted rites in which beautiful young women were offered to the magnificent carnivorous plants, such as the explorer Cari Liche who claimed to have seen in 1878 how a rather shapely and voluptuous virgin died under the branching claws of the man-eating tree of Madagascar. »
• « Reminiscent of pagan rites and components of Egyptian and Babylonian cults, the black mass is the ultimate expression of satanic liturgy. It is attended only by initiates, people who have already signed the pact with the powers of hell, presided over by an apostate priest, through whom Lucifer manifests himself. »