Explore: Rites Of Purification

misfortune, while the oharae, or "ceremony of great purification", is often used for end-of-year purification rites, and is conducted twice a year at many

about rites of purification. Cunda declares that he approves of the rites of the brahmins of the West and the Buddha mentions that the rites of purification

Ritual purification is a ritual prescribed by a religion through which a person is considered to be freed of uncleanliness, especially prior to the worship

Window 6 – "Rites of Purification"; cleaning hands Window Seven depicts the Sacrifice of Elijah, and his triumph over the pagan priest of Baal. In the window

religions and cults, but also rites of passage, atonement and purification rites, oaths of allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations and presidential

who described apotropaic rites and rites of purification that were intended to keep the Keres at bay. According to a statement of Stesichorus noted by Eustathius

the rites of purification and fertility of February. Her various epithets thus show a complex of mutually interrelated functions that in the view of Georges

deity of sex, sexuality, lust, carnality, sin, vice, impurity, temptation, fertility, purification, absolution, steam baths, and a patroness of adulterers

Britain Chōzuya, a Shinto water ablution pavilion for a ceremonial purification rite known as temizu Cleaning station, a location where aquatic life such

"Luke's narration of the Presentation in the Temple combines the purification rite with the Jewish ceremony of the redemption of the firstborn (Luke