Ritual
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"These relics in Greek ritual and faith are very commonly explained as due to Oriental influences, as things borrowed from the dark and bloody superstitions of Asia. But this attempt to save the native Greek character for "blitheness" and humanity must not be pushed too far. It must be remembered that the cruder and wilder sacrifices and legends of Greece were strictly LOCAL; that they were attached to these ancient temples, old altars, barbarous xoana, or wooden idols, and rough fetish stones, in which Pausanias found the most ancient relics of Hellenic theology."--Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) by Andrew Lang |
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A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects.
See also
- Behavioral script
- Builders' rites
- Chinese ritual mastery traditions
- Gut (ritual)
- Kagura
- Nabichum
- Nuo rituals
- Process art
- Processional walkway
- Religious symbolism
- Ritualism in the Church of England
- Symbolic boundaries
- Taiping Qingjiao
- The Rite of Spring
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