Sensing some sort of power to the mineral, the goblins hoarded it and shaped it into ritual objects.

在察觉到矿石的某种力量之后，地精们开始储藏它们并把它们做成仪式器物。

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Well, like the rest of the ancient world, Israel had a cultic system, and that cultic system featured a sanctuary: a sacred space with holy objects; sacred objects, where priests performed a variety of ritual acts.

和其他古代世界一样，以色列有一个宗教系统，圣所是这个系统的一个特色：,它是一个布满了神圣物体的地方，祭司会在这里举行一系列的仪式。

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These are mostly ritual objects, architectural carvings and representations of ancestors made for veneration, often featuring the clean, simple lines we now readily associate with modernism, another of Mr. Jaffe's interests.

WSJ: Eastern Expansion | Yale University Art Gallery | Ruth Barnes | Cultural Conversation by Lee Lawrence

Rectangular niches of varying sizes carved into the surface contain ritual objects, Buddhas, deities, human and animal figures, and conic architectural shapes that may represent other temples (possibly the stele is a stone version of the painted maps depicting the Jain sites).

WSJ: Enlightenment on an Intimate Scale | The Adinatha Temple at Ranakpur | Masterpiece by James S. Ackerman