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Travis may have been the best tattoo artist in Ireland, if not all of Western Europe, but he didn't come close to the skill of this man, at least not when it came to ritual Sak Yant; sacred skin art, Thai style
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Ajarn was one of the best there was and while he handled his mai sak and khem sak, the bamboo and metal ritual tattoo sticks, as though he were about to commit murder with them, the designs were as perfect and fine as medieval calligraphy
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Only that Travis was his close friend and colleague, because his need was so great and out of respect for Travis’ skill as an artist would he perform this ritual
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Her mother had performed the same ritual when
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Conclusion: From now on Themis is not only uninterested in me but he also ignores me completely! A week later I will repeat the magic ritual -in vain; I could as well say the situation is getting worse and worse: Now Themis is courting all women in our class except me, especially when I am present! He is flirting everyone but me! He even arranges outings or day trips with them in such an ostentatious manner that I -as well as the whole gym- can hear everything; needless to say, I am never given the chance to be a member of that enviable party
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I hoarded my daily ration of cigarettes, denying myself the luxury of nicotine relief for hours on end, until, like a binge drinker I felt compelled to indulge in some weird chain-smoking ritual, gorging on tar and smoke until I was physically sick
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I nodded but then realised that it was just a ritual response
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Her mother had performed the same ritual when coming of age, although for her it seemed the bitter pleasure of awakening touched her mind
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It’s a ritual, the milk and the war paint and the job
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with the ritual inhabitants
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There is a ritual that each dragon must follow
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The crew had weighed anchor, made the customary ritual sacrifice having prayed to the gods for help and guidance
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I can call upon her with tried and tested ritual
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Then we turned out of the narrow alleyway into the square where, to my complete amazement, I saw it absolutely crammed with hundreds of pilgrims who had flocked there for the next part of the festival, all craning and straining to see what they could of the annual procession and the ritual on the plateia
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What makes your ritual chamber? Know that the quickest
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If the ritual embarrasses it's owner, or is not carefully planned and
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The Emotion Ritual
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will be sound-proofed! The benefit is seen of the ritual when full release
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Atums as They Relate to Ritual:
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He tells a story about an ancient Egyptian ritual, and he stirs the water with his bare hand
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stop and perform a strange ritual
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Tom could see that Bram was interested in this ritual as well,
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After twenty years of evolution in club land white stilettos and plastic handbags may have given way to belly button piercings and porthole dresses, but the ritual stand-off between groups of rhythmic girls and leery boys is alive and well
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They had all stood awkwardly for several moments after the body had been laid in the shallow grave, an atmosphere of expectancy in the air … shouldn’t someone be saying something ritual or meaningful?
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He probably thought scientific procedure was all just ritual
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So he didn’t bother with a few, like the ritual of sterilization of equipment
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The ritual was completed in the time it took most women just to do their
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and white newspaper that accompanied him daily to his morning ritual
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weather into a ritual of semi-daily rain showers and a constant climb in
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witchcraft in Scripture because witchcraft is ritual without a
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For another two days, this evening ritual was repeated
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In Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) he explained the "irrational" elements of mythology as survivals from more primitive forms
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The process had become a ritual
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He went thru the ritual
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How anyone could believe that having intercourse could be a religious act was beyond him, but at least it was fun; a ritual he hardly ever missed
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This practice places emphasis on both metaphysical knowledge and ritual
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Zen (Zen in Japan, Ch’an in China) is another branch of Buddhism that eschews theory and ritual, and holds to the original teaching of the Buddha
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This ritual had
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I have no remorse to be a lesser part in this Pagan ritual
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And well, it had been nearly a week since I had made it a daily therapeutic ritual of hiking up to Grandma and Grandpa’s to walk the playground of my youth and visit with those ornery old people
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The ritual had the feel of an ancient death ceremony done by a priest to send her spirit off to some hypothetical afterworld
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Supposed accidents and sicknesses could be proven ritual murders of
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Mistaken to be the effect of Crowleys ritual incantation, the banishment of the horrid creature came
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Collecting what remained of the ketchup and milk from his bowl with a slice of cake, Uncle Hobart completed his breakfast ritual by swirling his false teeth in his tea to clean them
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They had been there many times before gathered for the same ritual
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The men of the tribe chanted and gave the high priest the rhythm he needed to perform the ritual
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“And in the beginning the old man of the mountain said, ‘let there be beer,’” he declaimed majestically, and poured a small libation upon the waters, a small but important ritual he hadn’t enacted in far too many moons
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The place was perhaps a tad more deserted than usual this morning, a few bleary-eyed coffee-drinkers in the food court and several other ritual strollers attested to the normality of the day
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So it came to pass, the birth of an enduring ritual
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He felt a knot in his stomach at the thought of her giving up, burying him in that little ritual they buried their dead kinsfolk with no body to say her farewells too
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As he sat with her at the table in the tiled kitchen drinking coffee while she smoked a cigarette, a ritual in his visits to the farm, he began to ask questions about the house
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There was a ritual associated with this pick-up
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The ritual of smudging can be defined as "spiritual house cleaning
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In a sympathetically conducted ritual, you gather the smoke with your hand and draw it into the perimeter of your body
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We had reached our optimum potential through custom and ritual
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Most of his staff were also cruelly killed, their skin flayed out to the bone, while the Arch-minister himself seemed to have been made the object of a ritual to the Deceiver, the False God
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It was only then that she could feel a closeness to the God that her family only seemed to worship with ritual sacrifice
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Only then did she become aware of the large stone that had been their place of ritual gathering after each day’s work
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This was a ritual as old as time
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Therefore the practice of deep relaxation should become a daily ritual
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Ritual ingestion seemed a logical way of putting that overabundance of strength within Man’s body
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Great respect was accorded the invisible essence in the ritual sacrifice of eating the animal’s physical remains
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Then as more time passed, his willingness to offer even this came to be seen as an indication of his devotion, and generosity to his newest Master, and the ritual became institutionalized
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If this is how it’s going to be, I think I’ll have to take my chances anyway,” he said and traced the knife around her throat in the mockery of a slow, ominous ritual
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Job, He stated, had gotten it closer than all the others, but even he had not understood that he couldn’t please God within only his own strength and understanding, and that a ritual show of piety or forbearance was insufficient to acquire what he appeared to have fallen short of gaining in other ways
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And why were the Hebrews so insistent that there was only one God among the many who had been worshipped from the beginning of their history? And, how long had this insistence been a part of their ritual declaration?
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Chaturmaas, after the ritual shave, at the suggestion of a devotee the
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directed the priests there to offer Abhishek (ritual shower accompanied
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to the priest towards the expenses of the closing ritual (samapti) of
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From the ecstatic excitement of discovery, to the enthusiasm of acceptance; from the reverence of insightful interpretation, to the worship of stable dogma; then the merely ritual observance of traditional declarations that eventually slide into only dutiful obeisance to form
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The alpha male and associates is the underlying structure of most all animal societies and plays out in all human societies as well, only in a much more complicated cultural ritual
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How? What kind of ritual or practice must he learn to come to the notice of these greater essences?
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“To a little initiation ritual,” he says
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I stopped cutting it like the Abnegation when I wanted the Dauntless to see me as a potential leader, but I miss the ritual of the old way, the buzz of the clippers and the careful movements of my hands, knowing more by touch than by sight
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Starting the ritual yet again, I consider: “I’m approaching seventy, and still I want to sing
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In this awareness, I applied myself to another ritual of life: preparing piles of fresh vegetables into a big pot of vegetable stew that’s beautiful to look at, delicious to eat; and lamb braised in red wine, with green beans
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Jaro was not able to decipher a clear explanation of why Nick’s party had been subjected to this ritual, except that they may have been seen as gods and, as gods, were seen as a powerful presence
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May I be as bold as to request of you, dear reader, never to accept what I say, but please accept what God says and realise that “cremation” is a pagan ritual that is not from God, in fact God only approves this paganism in punishment, when His wrath is ignited!
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It is unimportant to sprout a new ritual for reading and following it
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is a ritual that anchors us to our sense of who we are and how we want
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Moldy: Old sermons; no direct revelation; religious ritual; out-of-date; unclean; carnal interpretation of the Word; no Spirit
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It had apparently been connected to some sort of religious ritual that had been abandoned and was now maintained as a curiosity
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Any non-Maya who survives the ritual slaughter of their tumen becomes immortal in the eyes of those who serve in the Khanate of the Clouds
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The Ani’ Yun’-wiya were described as “good warriors with rather bizarre notions of equality who pay too much attention to their women and waste too much time in ritual
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Together we performed the thanking ritual to the deer spirit and I carried the deer over my shoulders back to the house
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ritual recently, as if he was trying to convince himself
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To this very day, among Eastern Orthodox and Western Catholics, you can’t have a satisfying ritual without a few candles being lit — of course, the Fundamentalists consider them Heathen too!
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“For the ritual it is required that someone of first class rank sit in with us while the transformation takes place
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I expect it will be someone rather highly respected within the house, considering this ritual hasn’t been executed in centuries
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They never took prisoners, but there had been some ritual cannibalism
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The language of the song was Ani’ Yun’-wiya, but was not any of the ritual songs I knew
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In the last verses the prophet points out that the people need a ritual cleansing and
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Chapter 29 described here, and also there is some detail as to the ritual require-
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A father alter, a bronze laver, (A large basin, used for the ritual
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There is also a cleansing ritual after
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Chapter 19 regulates the ritual for the cleansing of the tabernacle and the priests
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couldn’t envisage the thought of spending the rest of his life on this planet eating fish and watching a violent daily mating ritual
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Had Levi brought me here as a ritual gift for his sire, was Adrinius close by?
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There was an elaborate ritual performed by Ageless, a senior citizen residence with geriatric facilities far away from the city only after which people could be admitted