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Forbidden Rituals and Sacred Prohibitions
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Across
  • 1. Historical racial taboo concept with ancient Indo-European origins
  • 2. Anthropophagic taboo with ritualistic and survival connotations
  • 4. Islamic term for actions categorically prohibited by divine law
  • 5. Officially forbidden or banned as an ancient social taboo
  • 8. Belief system enforcing kinship taboos through symbolic animal ancestors
  • 9. Profound curse or excommunication signaling social taboo
  • 12. Systematic study of prohibitions in traditional societies
  • 15. Mythical demon linked to nocturnal transgressions and forbidden dreams
  • 17. Latin term for blank slate, metaphor for forbidden knowledge erasure
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  • 3. Nepalese ritual taboo forbidding menstruating women’s temple entry
  • 6. Ritual proscription of contact with the dead’s belongings
  • 7. Mesoamerican shaman tabooed for transforming into animal guardians
  • 10. Ancient city with possible sacred taboos linked to burial rites
  • 11. Anthropological rule forbidding marriage within a social group
  • 13. Ancient taboo against depicting or describing sacred images verbally
  • 14. Philosophical taboo on copying divine or sacred phenomena
  • 16. Code of silence, an ancient social interdiction among Sicilian clans
  • 18. Obsolete Indian taboo practice involving widow immolation
  • 19. Prion disease taboo causing ritual avoidance among Fore people

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