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What kind of rituals are these?
As a child, I carried out fairly standard suburban rituals in Boston, with adjustments made for the rituals my mother brought from London and Lagos.
In snowy North America, ours were rituals of the global South.
The rituals were familiar.
"R" number one, rituals.
We're local where we carry out our rituals and relationships, but how we experience our locality depends in part on our restrictions.
By civil war, dysfunctional governance, economic inflation, from living in the locality where you had your rituals as a child?
This is the least sexy of the R’s, less lyric than rituals and relationships, but the question takes us past "Where are you now?" to "Why aren't you there, and why?" Rituals, relationships, restrictions.
To claim that he's "not really Nigerian," though, denies his experience in Lagos, the rituals he practiced growing up, his relationship with family and friends.
Both he and Udo are restricted by the political conditions of their parents' countries, from living where some of their most meaningful rituals and relationships occur.
Their rituals, their relationships, and their restrictions are the same.
A Mexican gardener in Los Angeles and a Nepali housekeeper in Delhi have more in common in terms of rituals and restrictions than nationality implies.
In Mormonism, we believe that after you die, if you keep all the rules and you follow all the rituals, you can be together as a family again.
I read, for example, about the Southern African king Ngungunhane, who led the resistance against the Portuguese in the 19th century; and about marriage rituals in a remote village on the shores of the Caspian sea in Turkmenistan.
And I've been privy to the mating rituals of green sea turtles in the Mozambique Channel.
Aztecs used cacao beans as currency and drank chocolate at royal feasts, gave it to soldiers as a reward for success in battle, and used it in rituals.
Today, chocolate has established itself in the rituals of our modern culture.
The Japanese eventually developed their own unique rituals around tea, leading to the creation of the Japanese tea ceremony.
She learns the Fasti, the calendar of sacred rituals and she watches while the senior priestesses conduct sacrifices.
In fact, the world "cultus" originally described people who cultivated the worship of certain gods by performing rituals and maintaining temples.
Studies on golfing, bowling, and water polo find that short rituals can lead to more consistent and accurate performance under pressure.
And I began to sense something different about the history, and what had happened before, and the nature of life in a very poor village, and what you find as your joys, and your rituals, your traditions, your links with other families.
By the second millennium BCE, chickens had spread from the Indus Valley to China and the Middle East to occupy royal menageries and to be used in religious rituals.
What if, for the rest of eternity, when you went to visit her site, you could smell Josephine just as Napoleon loved her? Could we engineer new ways of mourning, new rituals for remembering?
But these localized rituals become pan-Andean, and these fantastic festivals, like that of the Qoyllur Rit'i, which occurs when the Pleiades reappear in the winter sky.
Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead, performing burial rituals and returning to visit graves.
VG: We call the names and rituals of our ancestors into this room today because from them we received a powerful blueprint for survival, strategies and tactics for healing carried across oceans by African women, passed down to generations of Black women in America who used those skills to navigate institutions of slavery and state-sponsored discrimination in order that we might stand on this stage.
And you go through three rituals.
Some of the earliest known writing includes administrative records of cheese quotas, listing a variety of cheeses for different rituals and populations across Mesopotamia.
So, if anyone wants to join, the basic idea is, whether or not there is a God, there's something important and beautiful about the idea of sacredness, and that our rituals can be sacred.
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