Relied on by generations of Indians for tilling fields, dairy products and dung fuel, the cow is regarded by Hindus as gau mata, or maternal figure, and has had a long-standing central role in India's religious rituals.
The exhibition begins indoors, with portraits that were a shock because they captured women in the privacy of their homes, lost in reverie (Monet's "Madame Louis Joachim Gaudibert, " 1868) or engaged in quotidian rituals like removing a glove (Charles Carolus-Duran's "The Lady With the Glove, " 1869).
"It's so important to have someone who is knowledgeable about different cultures and knows how to explain (the rituals) to the guests, " he says of Macomb's officiating.
Eva Beuys, the artist's widow, still lives in the city, and the gold-hued "Palazzo Regale" installation, with its evocation of ancient burial rituals, coupled with objects recalling the artist's own life, is of supreme importance, says Ms. Temkin.
The origins of the festival lie in the fertility rituals of pre-Christian Sweden, and there's a subtext to the pole that you don't need to be Sigmund Freud to grasp.
Noteworthy highlights were a music and dance group from Ecuador's Cuenca University and presentations of shaman tribal rituals by several of more than 200 gathered for a rare conference of native spiritual leaders.
By the rituals of Wall Street deal making, a buyer's first offer is almost never the final price agreed to in a transaction -- although Mr. Murdoch's first offer in this case represented an unusually generous premium.
Some of baseball's superstitions are legend, ranging from quirky gimmicks to rituals bordering on obsessive behavior.
There are marked cultural and religious differences between Turkey's Alawis and the more numerous Alevis including language and religious rituals, where Alevis place more prominence on the role of music and dance.
Mahathir is deeply worried that obsessive religious practices, and adherence to rituals at any cost, will so preoccupy his fellow Malay Muslims that the nation's bid to achieve industrialized status within the next 20 years will fail.
Michele's bizarre murder is believed to be part of a wave of killings linked to occult rituals that has triggered panic in Yaounde, the capital city of more than 2 million people in the West African nation of Cameroon.
It was Albright's daughter Anne who told her that the Washington Post confirmed the rumors that have been spreading since Albright's name hit the headlines: that her parents were not raised as Catholics, celebrating family rituals of Easter and Christmas, as Albright had been told growing up.
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