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Arcane Prohibitions of Antiquity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Temple servant bound by strict ritual abstentions
- 2. Hungarian term revealing sovereign interdiction on impure actions
- 4. Latin root hinting at forbidden spell or cursed utterance
- 6. Fictionalized cryptic blend hinting at forbidden nature spirits in Asia
- 9. Ancient Indian taboo forbidding certain food and behavior to the priestly caste
- 13. Australian Aboriginal term for sacred restricted practices
- 14. Marriage prohibition within one's own social group
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- 3. Strict sexual purity enforced in numerous ancient traditions
- 5. Violation of sacred law, universally taboo
- 7. Ritual impurity often linked to death in archaic societies
- 8. Ancient culinary prohibitions codified in ritual texts
- 10. Old English legalistic term for prohibited sins
- 11. Belief system outlawing harm to clan symbols of flora or fauna
- 12. Etymology tied to divine wind, with sacred prohibitions on failure
- 15. Indic site where ritual purity dictates strong social interdictions
- 16. Ethnographic term describing systems of interdiction
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