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Esoteric Rites and Celestial Festivities
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- 1. Philosophical practice sometimes influencing ritual discourse
- 3. Chanted formula believed to invoke magical or divine power
- 6. Burial practice that can be part of funerary rites
- 8. Model or pattern underlying ritualistic tradition
- 12. Ceremonial act believed to impart divine grace
- 14. Manifestation festival celebrating a divine appearance
- 15. Belief system involving symbolic animal or natural emblems
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- 2. Spiritual journey often undertaken during religious festivals
- 4. Pertaining to formal worship rituals with ancient origins
- 5. Ritual offering, sometimes symbolic, to appease deities
- 7. Study of symbolic imagery used in religious ceremonies
- 9. Modern revival movement embracing ancient seasonal rites
- 10. Orderly ceremonial march, often marking sacred occasions
- 11. Symbolic boundary often crossed during ritual transitions
- 13. Act of profound respect directed toward sacred objects
- 16. Ritualistic imitation of mythic acts to transfer power
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