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Christian liturgy
(redirected from Sacrificial rites)

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Noun1.Christian liturgy - the Christian worship services
liturgy - a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship
doxology - a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God
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They practised a polytheistic religion centered on sacrificial rites, probably administered by a priestly caste.
German Memories - Early European Migration & Life-Style by Rajkumar Kanagasingam / Arts and entertainment industries community
Some three hours' drive inland from here, past an endless landscape of impenetrable scrub and roadside taco restaurants and pottery stalls, lies Chichen Itza, the well-preserved ruins of a huge Mayan city which was the centre of trade, political power, fun, games, sacrificial rites and worship in Yucatan for hundreds of years.
TRAVEL: Mexcellent; MAYAN MAJESTY ON THE YUCATAN PENINSULA by The Mirror (London, England)
More remarkably, the Delta's most numerous inhabitants, the Ijo, produce canoe effigies, or ikiyan aru (ikiyan = sacrifice, aru = canoe), for use in sacrificial rites (Fig.
Ikayan aru: Ijo vessels of sacrifice by Anderson, Martha G. / African Arts
 
 
 
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