Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joined for her initiation ritual by several white-robed men and women. On the floor are vessels made of china and wood containing smooth stones in which the spirits of the gods reside. A priest named Jorge leads in a goat from the garage. The animal moves reluctantly, like a stubborn dog. As the chanting congregation beseeches the deity Chango to accept the animal, a santero, or priest, holds the animal's head firmly, stretching the neck with one hand. With a sharp knife he easily slices through the carotid artery. The animal struggles feebly. Seconds later, the goat...
...goats, 14 chickens, 14 guinea hens and several doves will be offered as sacrifices. The carcasses will be butchered in the garage and prepared for the next day's feast. As many as 100 people will attend to celebrate the "birth" of their newest Santeria priest...
...playwrights. It focuses, among other things, on the importance of names and naming, doing its best to refute Shakespeare's dictum that a rose by any other name smells as sweet. As a result, Wilde presents Prism, the angular and edgy governess, Merriman, the gloomy butler and Chasuble the priest...
What kind of advice have you received from the likes of Ozzy and Rob Halford (lead singer of Judas Priest who does backing vocals on "Goddamn Devil...
...could be used to send gold and other valuables back to the Spanish treasury. This is why he immediately put the native populations to work. Columbus and his men mistreated the native population to the point that the Spanish government had to appoint a guardian of the Indians, a priest named Bartolome de las Casas...