Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Ceremonies and Arcane Rites
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Raised platform for ceremonial funerary display
- 2. Ritual removal of skin, sometimes symbolic purification
- 3. Practice of mediating spirits by ritual specialists
- 4. Miracle-working invoked often in esoteric ceremonies
- 6. Ritual act of bringing something to life symbolically
- 8. Phallic symbol worshipped in Hindu rites
- 9. Person skilled in interpreting divinatory signs
- 11. Masked dancers engaging in ritual exorcism in Guinea
- 15. Groove beneath the nose, sometimes accentuated in ritual
- 17. Carved wooden emblem representing tribal ancestry or spirits
Down
- 5. Pertaining to ceremonial garments worn in symbolic rites
- 7. Garment piece symbolizing devotion in mystic customs
- 10. Recollection or remembrance ritual, often sacramental
- 12. Belief system centered on animal or natural spirit emblems
- 13. Use of objects or acts to represent hidden meanings
- 14. African dance rite invoking ancestral spirits
- 16. Pertaining to fireside rites and household worship
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