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Esoteric Rites and Festive Arcana
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- 1. Period between new moons often defining festival timings
- 2. Old Germanic midwinter celebration now blended with Christmas
- 3. Gesture of respect or homage in ritualized practice
- 5. Festival ball involving costume and anonymity
- 9. Language in which some early Mesopotamian festival hymns were sung
- 11. Festival of lights marking triumph of light over darkness
- 14. Demoness whose pyre burns to symbolize the victory of good
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- 4. Ancient nature worship often revived in seasonal ceremonies
- 6. Christian observance marking penance with symbolic dust
- 7. Greek tradition invoking saint's blessing with customary songs
- 8. Participants in the ancient Easter ritual of chanting laments
- 10. Sacrificial rite observed in Islamic festival honoring devotion
- 12. Arabic term for religious feast or ceremonial banquet
- 13. Celtic fire festival signaling the boundary between worlds
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