Word: ritualized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Arizona summer Hopi medicine men keep one eye on the ground, the other on the sky. In August when the corn and melon vines begin to wither, the Hopi whisper that "the little ones" are angry. Then one day the medicine men set a date for the rain-bringing ritual. On the door of the main kiva (underground chamber) a priest posts a nacti (two eagle feathers tied to a stick) and for nine days thereafter the kiva is a hallowed place which none may enter but themselves. Across the broad mesa go "gatherers" in search of snakes. Scores...
...returned to the underworld. The underworldlings, angered, persuaded the gods to withhold rain from the Hopi. Year after year corn withered on its stalk. Finally the Hopi sent out scouts to gather all the snakes they could find. They washed the snakes, made them the centre of a religious ritual and sent them away. The grateful snakes told their fellows, who asked the gods to send rain to the Hopi, which the gods did. Ever since the Hopi have honored snakes to appease gods who might remember their intolerance. Why rain follows the Snake Dance and why the Hopi...
...inhabitants have a Spartan pride in physical perfection, an Athenian confidence in their own Golden Age. The steady splendor of the ceremony that opened California's first Olympic Games last week was the expression of a feeling which oldtime Greeks would have understood. It ended in the quiet ritual of the Olympic oath, to "take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the honor of our country and the glory of sport." Handsome Lieut. George C. Calnan...
seem abhorrently high church to many Methodists, especially to Kneeling, bowing and chanting mightseem abhorrently high church to many Methodists, especially to evangelical laymen. But last week Methodists were obliged to learn something about such ritual. After several years of study the Commission on Worship & Music of the Methodist Episcopal Church adopted & issued a revised order of worship, as authorized by the 1928 General Conference and approved by a considerable body of the clergy...
...crawls on to a tramp steamer, escapes as a stowaway. His life on the freighter is grim with the obscenities of shipmates from cook to bo's'n. Here is not the sea of Conrad, romantic with austerities, but a sea which has beaten its devotees into a coarse ritual. "What kind of world was it into which he had flung himself? All men sailing at sea seemed to be obsessed with boys." Larkin, an officer, his own friend, warned him against the sea. "You must either give in or break away. In my 20-odd years...