the topheth (in ancient jerusalem), considered as a holly land in canaanites period, it was the altar of human sacrifice in honor of baal. the history of the ritual, human sacrifice and the ceremonies accompanied with, among jewish people returns back to when the land of canaan in jordan valley was occupied by the israelite people leading by joshua (ca.1426 b.c.). on these altars the new born c...

Traditional or cultural practices are time honored rituals and beliefs which are prevalent in the community and they may pertain to a wide range of activities. A charm is defined as something worn about the person to ward off evil or ensure good fortune. Commonest purpose for use of a charm is for general wellbeing, and is found to be higher among people living in rural areas in joint family wi...

The indelible memories of my medical undergraduate days include one of a lecture delivered by the late Karl Stern, then professor of psychiatry at McGill. His topic was the role of ritual in preventing anxiety. He began by asking us to recall the silly games we had played as children — avoiding cracks in the sidewalk (“step on a crack, break your mother’s back”) or holding your breath when you ...

The Daily Ritual was one of a series of cultic rituals performed for the statue of the god by temple priests each day. Performed in the morning after the fi rst light of dawn, it was complemented by similar but more abbreviated rituals in the afternoon and evening. The Egyptians believed that the gods themselves had established the correct form of the rituals, and along with the celebration of ...

www.ritualdynamik.de Hand over the pūjā plate with the siddhir astu. ācamana. Make the purification for the clay of the guru reciting the rakṣohanaṃ. Sacrifice bali, reciting the adhy avocad. Light reciting the tejo ʼsi. Ritual bath reciting the svasti na indro. • Rituals exist in all human cultures across all times. • Similarities between rituals from very distant cultures can be observed. • I...

The possibility that victims of child abuse can repress or otherwise lose memories of early traumatic experiences and then recover them years later is currently the subject of heated debate (Alpert et al., 1996). Concerns about false memories are particularly intense in cases involving repressed memory of alleged acts of satanic ritual abuse (Wright, 1994). Allegations of ritual abuse, which of...

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of men's experiences of pregnancy, birth and early fatherhood. It does so using a framework of ritual transition theory and argues that despite its earlier structural-functionalist roots, transition theory remains a valuable framework, illuminating contemporary transitions across the life course. The paper discusses the historical development of transi...

INTRODUCTION Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face. The mask makes the disengagement from ordinary time and the connection to the ancient and repetitive, which is the heart of ritual, psychologically acceptable. Together, ritual and mask facilitate the apprehension of identity and its connections with pa...