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The blood oath was used in much the same fashion as has already been described in much of Sub-Saharan Africa. The British colonial administrator Lord Lugard is famous for having become blood brothers with numerous African chiefs as part of his political policy in Africa. A powerful blood brother was the Kikuyu chieftain Waiyaki Wa Hinga.
The blood ritual described in this passage is a key example of the use and significance of blood in biblical tradition. The ritual involves the sacrifice of animals and the division of their blood into two halves, with one half sprinkled on the altar, representing God, and the other half sprinkled on the people.
Blood brothers participating in a "blood oath" ritual; Blood oath (Hungarians), a pact between the leaders of the seven Hungarian tribes; Penalty (Mormonism), an oath formerly made in Latter Day Saint temples, referred to by critics as a "blood oath"
Participants in the ritual made an oath to pray that God would "avenge the blood of the prophets on this nation." [24] The prophet was Smith and "this nation" was the United States. [24] (This oath was removed from the ceremony during the 1920s. [25]) In 1877, Brigham Young noted what he viewed as a similarity between Joseph Smith's death and ...
Herodotus described a Scythian ritual in which "a large earthen bowl is filled with wine, and the parties to the oath, wounding themselves slightly with a knife or an awl, drop some of their blood into the wine; then they plunge into the mixture a scymitar, some arrows, a battle-axe, and a javelin, all the while repeating prayers; lastly the ...
Freemasonry is described in its own ritual as a "Beautiful and profound system of morality, veiled in allegories and illustrated by symbols". The symbolism of Freemasonry is found throughout the Masonic lodge, and contains many of the working tools of a medieval or renaissance stonemason.
A pal at the Brooklyn facility where he last shacked up told The Post the migrant was addicted to smoking the synthetic drug K2 and drank heavily on a daily basis.. The accused killer allegedly ...
Blood compact (Spanish: Pacto de sangre; Tagalog: Sanduguan) was an ancient ritual in the Philippines intended to seal a friendship or treaty, or to validate an agreement. The contracting parties would cut their hands and pour their blood into a cup filled with liquid, such as wine, and drink the mixture.