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Arcane Prohibitions of Antiquity
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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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