Explore basic concepts of ancient taboos worldwide in this easy crossword puzzle designed for high school students. Covers common taboos and cultural beliefs.
Obscure Ancient Taboos and Forbidden Practices is a hard crossword puzzle with 14 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Obscure Ancient Taboos and Forbidden Practices
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- 2. Magical practice to ward off evil, often taboo in sacred spaces
- 3. Forbidden practice of communing with the dead for divination
- 4. Ancient curse ritual aimed at damnation and social exclusion
- 5. Violation deeply proscribed by endogamous kinship laws
- 6. State of ritual taboo during transitional rituals and initiations
- 8. Forbidden gestures in ancient rites exposing cultural proscription
- 10. Belief system forbidding harm to animal emblem of clan identity
- 11. Taboo against ignoring prophetic signs in ancient superstition
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- 1. Relating to Egyptian god tied to death taboo and resurrection
- 7. Anthropophagic taboo often linked with ritualistic transgressions
- 9. Profaning holy or consecrated objects, universally condemned
- 12. Taboo involving castration for religious or social control
- 13. Obscure ancient term for tribal leader enforcing social prohibitions
- 14. Mythic concept of forbidden lethargy disrupting ritual readiness
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