Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Forgotten Festive Rituals and Customs
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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- 1. Movement performance traditionally done to celebrate seasonal changes
- 3. Seasonal festival celebrating the gathering of crops
- 4. An offering made to deities or spirits, often in ancient festivals
- 6. Beating percussion often used to accompany traditional dances
- 9. Public processions once key to festive celebrations
- 11. Sacred structure where ancient festival ceremonies happened
- 14. Set of ceremonial acts conducted during sacred festivals
- 17. Symbolic emblems representing ancestral spirits in tribal festivals
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- 2. Relating to legendary stories tied to festival origins
- 5. Festive event involving participants wearing elaborate masks
- 7. Short for anniversary, often marking festival origins
- 8. Wearing disguises in historic seasonal revelries
- 10. An object believed to bring luck during traditional celebrations
- 12. Large controlled fire historically used in seasonal rites
- 13. Traditional stories and customs passed down in festival practices
- 15. Relating to ancient Earth-based religious festivals
- 16. Pertaining to an emblematic figure in indigenous ceremonies
- 18. Large communal meals central to many lost festival traditions
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