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expiation rather than
propitiation: "God himself, says St Paul, so far from
being wrathful against us, or from
needing to be
propitiated,
loved us
enough to...
- god of pre-Christian Ireland.
According to
Christian writers, he was
propitiated with
human sacrifice and his
worship was
ended by
Saint Patrick. He is...
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administer religious rites; in particular,
rites of
sacrifice to, and
propitiation of, a
deity or deities.
Their office or
position is the "priesthood"...
-
practised along with nat worship,
which involves elaborate rituals to
propitiate one from a
pantheon of 37 nats. In a
traditional village, the monastery...
- of the ****ociation
between human waste and agriculture) and have been
propitiated in a wide
variety of ways,
including making offerings,
invoking and appeasing...
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possessions or the
lives of
animals or
humans to a
deity as an act of
propitiation or worship.
Evidence of
ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least...
- of
lower classes, refugees, and
plans developed by thieves. She was
propitiated by
libations poured with the left hand. The poet
Horace and the playwright...
- of
their villages from bandits, epidemics, and
natural disasters when
propitiated,
failing which they are
believed to
cause these afflictions. A gramadevata...
- the name Anjana. For a long time, the
couple were childless.
Anjana propitiated Vayu for a child. In
Shaiva tradition,
Shiva was
requested to
beget a...
-
offering food, or the
lives of
animals or
people to the gods, as an act of
propitiation or worship.
Sacrifice may also
refer to:
Sacrifice (painting), a 2013...
