Water, perhaps more than any other natural resource, has profound religious meaning: in ceremonial uses, as a spiritual symbol, and as an object of worship. The scarcity of legal scholarship regarding the nexus between religious rights and water law is therefore curious. This paper examines that...
aThe first day of Dashain is called Ghatasthapana, which literally means pot establishing. On this day the kalash, (holy water vessel) symbolising goddess Durga often with her image embossed on the side is placed in the prayer room. The kalash is filled with holy water and covered with cow...
Source will matter to some, but there wouldn't be any effect in game mechanics terms - a Pholtan priest "forced" to make use of a vial of holy water inscribed with the symbol of St. Cuthbert would undoubtedly set himself a personal penance for using so blasphemous an item (even if in...
a change of heart and will--the same outward rite as the symbol of purification, the same promise of forgiveness which that change involves. But the baptism is now, as it had not been before, in the name of Jesus Christ, and it is connected more directly with the gift of the Holy Sp...
meaning "worthy" or "bicker." In the old days young men accomplished their Easter Monday task with pails, or by dragging young women to nearby ponds, streams, or horse troughs and throwing them in. Nowadays some youth merely sprinkle girls with water, but other more boisterous lads have ...
Perhaps, Christ has saved this mosaic of Himself for us as a symbol of the power of God in art and beauty and how it can survive the horrors we create. I have thought it might be that the myth of the Priest entering the wall with the host in 1453 is really here in the Deesis. ...
/ 5haIErEglIf; `haIErE9^lIf/ n 1 picture or symbol of an object, representing a word, syllable or sound, as used in ancient Egyptian and other writing 象形字(如古埃及等所用的). 2 written symbol with a secret or hidden meaning 秘密的或另有含义的书写符号. ...
Such a view is an acceptable way of handling εἰς, but its subtlety and awkwardness count against it; (4) Finally, it is possible that to a first-century Jewish audience (as well as to Peter), the idea of baptism might incorporate both the spiritual reality and the physical symbol...
the wife of Abraham and mother of Ishmael, when searching for water in the desert for her son. Additionally, pilgrims visit Mount Arafat, where Muhammad gave his final sermon, and then throw stones at walls symbolizing devils to reenact Abraham throwing stones at the devil in the same spot...
Of all the equipment, the most important is the staff. It is not just for practical use when one hikes along rugged paths in the mountains, but it is a holy symbol of the Daishi himself. So pilgrims always treat it with utmost care and reverence. In former days the same staff became...