Visitors who enter a marae are greeted with a welcoming ritual, a pressing of noses and symbolic exchange of breath known as the hongi.
My mother knew that part of our gift giving ritual was a way to spend time with each other- I come from a family that has a long drawn out gifting ritual.
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Both a seasonal rite and a cultural festival, this ritual is a distinctive embodiment of Jeju identity and an expression of the villagers respect for the sea on which their livelihood depends.
Why give a pass to taxpayers who go through some ritual involving a make-believe "exchange"?
In a culture as stiff as Finland's, this ritual bears a great value and it also makes the culture more interesting in the eyes of strangers.
They floated party flags, rose and jasmine petals and other offerings out to sea, and finished the ritual with a prayer.
It has become a ritual for fans to pour onto a playing field following a dramatic victory, occasionally resulting in serious or even fatal injuries.
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But this would be the full, daunting ritual: a tee time, a caddie, the 5, 800-yard masterpiece (from the reds), the postround drink on the porch.
The festive ritual yields a strong sense of continuity and historical awareness for its participants, evoking historical events and legends passed on from generation to generation.
This holiday is both an ancient ritual and a moment of renewal, and I hope that you enjoy this special time of year with friends and family.
But his second worry is that, by not going through the ritual of a physical examination, doctors are depriving patients and their families of something that makes them feel better.
Sanctuary Spa at Camelback Mountain, Arizona, employs lime as the cornerstone of its Sabai Thai Ritual: A client's feet are soaked in lime and oil, exfoliated with a mixture of fine white clay and lime, and then massaged with an herbal poultice and lime-infused oils and lotions.
Exchanging cards has morphed from a choreographed ritual, as easy as a simple foxtrot, to an improvisational interpretive dance that would challenge Isadora Duncan.
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The procession stops at each house and four of the men perform a ritual dance, with the householders permission, to secure a rich harvest and prosperity for the family.
After the meeting, the pontiff perfomed a ritual expected of all visiting heads of state, laying a wreath at the enormous tomb of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the secular general who founded the modern Turkish Republic.
Mudiyettu is a ritual dance drama from Kerala based on the mythological tale of a battle between the goddess Kali and the demon Darika.
Bemis enjoys the option of adding a Japanese soaking tub ritual before or after a massage.
Everyone alone at a table at Ritual was either typing on a laptop or thumbing a smart phone.
If someone described to you an ancient civilization in which, every four years, at great expense, citizens convened to watch a carefully selected group perform a series of meticulously preset routines, and in which the watching was thought of not as a duty but as a hugely anticipated and unambiguously pleasurable experience, you would guess that, socially, this ritual was doing a lot of work.
It seems that even intelligent Greeks failed to realise this was a secular not a religious ritual and interpreted it as hubris: treating a mortal man as if he were a god.
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Champion, 26, died after a band hazing ritual in which he was beaten aboard a school bus after a football game in Orlando, Florida.
"Sometimes chanting a mantra, performing a small ceremonial ritual, prescribing some herbs and instructing a healthier diet is all that it takes to reduce the symptoms of certain mental health problems, " she said.
There are rituals imbedded in the game itself, e.g. the kickoff is a ritual.
It's as much of a ritual as those interviews with the prideful 1972 Miami Dolphins.
Metchsedes Ramirez(ph) explains in Ketchua, the indigenous language, that he's performing a ritual honoring the Earth mother.
Taazyeh is a ritual dramatic art that recounts religious events, historical and mythical stories and folk tales.
And people do need time to think about changing a ritual or tradition.
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In Japan, Samurai warriors would carry out Seppuku, a ritual suicide by disembowelment, rather than fall into enemy hands.
Participants in the sweat ritual gather inside a dome-shaped hut or tent, where a pile of heated rocks lies in the middle.
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