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Esoteric Rituals and Festival Oddities
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Across
  • 1. Japanese festival involving ancestral spirit invocation and lantern floats
  • 2. Italian medieval jousting tournament with archaic ceremonial customs
  • 3. Illuminating objects released skyward in symbolic celebratory rites
  • 5. Latin term for highly ritualized festival ceremonies with formal observance
  • 6. Divination ritual involving fire, common in various ancient festivals
  • 7. Spanish festival role involving ritual shoemaking or symbolic footwear
  • 11. Shinto festival featuring portable shrines and transactional rites
  • 13. Ancient Greece’s sacred navel stone, central to enigmatic rites
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  • 4. West African-derived spiritual festival involving trance possession
  • 8. Describes eerie, supernatural aura often evoked in occult feast traditions
  • 9. Polish folk dance with syncopated rhythm, often in spring festivities
  • 10. One of the Magi, celebrated during epiphany pageants and festivals
  • 12. Flower emblematically linked to certain traditional spring celebrations
  • 14. Rapid-paced folk procession, metaphorically a cavalry charge
  • 15. Sacred architecture hosting elaborate liturgical festival rites
  • 16. Symbolic pastry consumed during a lunar harvest celebration

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