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MEXonline.com Featured Travel Stories - Xun God and Temazcal
Chamula, perform a traditional spiritual cleansing and purification rite to celebrate its opening. A Temezcal ... for candles, and other elements important to the bathing and cleansing rituals. In the center is a concrete table to place the ... Xun, the bearer of gifts, prayers and knowledge of ancient cleansing rituals was walking to San Cristobal having left his home ...
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Connecting to Nature's Spirit by Sylvie Shaw
It’s simply being in the wave, and riding the board is secondary. It’s cleansing you, washing all the cares and worries away. You come back absolutely cleansed.” For Marcus ... nature asking permission if you can bring it to a central ‘altar’. Swanson (2000) says rituals are formed by weaving together words, sounds, gestures, movements. The focus of the ritual could ...
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A Whaling People: The Makah Hunt for Tradition and Memories of Whaling
Not everyone could whale. The right and rituals were passed down in families through 1,500 years of Makah ... , practiced the quiet, undulating movements of a whale. There were other rituals, too, but these are private Makah matters, nobody else's business. ... on the whale's hump and blow-hole. A year of spiritual cleansing paid off. The whale gave its life. Everybody did his job. ...
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Travel Books and Travelogues - National Geographic Traveler Highlights the Best Travel Writing
Qing and Ming dynasties, and is rich with scenes of festivals and rituals of 17th-century high-society China. Red Dust: A Path Through China, by Ma Jian ... Russian scientist tells environmental journalist Thomson. "Lake Baikal is perfect!" But Baikal's famous self-cleansing ecosystem isn't so perfect anymore, and Thomson wants to find out why. He meets ...
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Elizabeth Cogburn - Warriors Of The Beauty Way
What is ceremony? Elizabeth: First, let's distinguish between sacred ceremonials, rituals, and other kinds of celebrations. A celebration can be a family or community expression of ... crossings where water is not available, they use sand for the daily act of sacred cleansing. What matters is not the particular form but the intensity of your presence in your ...
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Peace and reconciliation via witch-hunting? The concepts may not be incompatible, argues Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
| April 1999 | New Internationalist
Lawrence Weschler has hit upon an appropriate metaphor for looking at the present contexts of ... of this kind of popular justice have been incorporated into the curiously hybrid formulas and rituals of the TRC. Confession is, of course, a central dynamic in all witchcraft-believing societies ...
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