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  2. Saptapadi - Wikipedia

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    Description. The saptapadi is an ancient ritual that dates back to the Vedic period. The circumambulation of the sacred altar of fire is a rite that is performed differently in various regions of South Asia. In some regions, the couple walks around the altar seven times. In other regions, the couple takes seven steps to complete a single ...

  3. Navajo song ceremonial complex - Wikipedia

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    Navajo song ceremonial complex. The Navajo song ceremonial complex is a spiritual practice used by certain Navajo ceremonial people to restore and maintain balance and harmony in the lives of the people. One half of the ceremonial complex is the Blessing Way, while the other half is the Enemy Way (Anaʼí Ndááʼ).

  4. Hindu wedding - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, the Hindu wedding ceremony at its core is essentially a Vedic yajna ritual and three key rituals are almost universal: Kanyadana— giving away of his daughter by the father, Panigrahana— voluntarily holding hands near the fire to signify union, and Saptapadi— taking seven 'steps before fire'. (Each 'step' is a complete ...

  5. Van Mahotsav - Wikipedia

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    Van Mahothsavlit. ' Forest festival ', is an annual one-week tree-planting festival in India which is celebrated in the first week of July. It is a great traditional Indian festival that reflects Indian culture and heritage to honor and love mother earth by planting trees, by creating awareness of nature's beauty, and by fostering an environment to promote the concept of reduce, reuse, and ...

  6. A Flowering Tree: A Woman's Tale - Wikipedia

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    A Flowering Tree: A Woman's Tale. For the opera based on the story, see A Flowering Tree. " A Flowering Tree " is a short story written by A. K. Ramanujan in his 1997 book A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. In actuality, it is a Karnataka folklore told by women which was translated by A. K. Ramanujan from Kannada to English.

  7. Fijian traditions and ceremonies - Wikipedia

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    Fijian tradition and ceremony is a living way of life that has evolved as the Fijian nation has modernised over time, with various external influences from Pacific neighbours, and the European and Asian society. This general overview of various aspects of Fijian tradition, social structure and ceremony, much of it from the Bauan Fijian ...

  8. Tulasi Vivaha - Wikipedia

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    The wedding ceremony of Tulasi to Vishnu/Krishna resembles the traditional Hindu wedding. [4] [5] The wedding ceremony is conducted at homes and at temples where a fast is observed until evening, when the ceremony begins. A mandapam (marriage booth) is built around the courtyard of the house where the tulasi plant is usually planted in centre ...

  9. On the Pulse of Morning - Wikipedia

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    African-American literature scholar Mary Jane Lupton Burr compared Angelou's poem with Frost's, something she claimed the poetry critics who gave "On the Pulse of Morning" negative reviews did not do. Angelou "rewrote" Frost's poem, from the perspective of personified nature that appeared in both poems. Frost praised American colonization, but Angelou attacked it. The cost of the creation of ...