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  2. Sin-eater - Wikipedia

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    A sin-eater is a person who consumes a ritual meal in order to spiritually take on the sins of a deceased person. The food was believed to absorb the sins of a recently dead person, thus absolving the soul of the person. Cultural anthropologists and folklorists classify sin-eating as a form of ritual.

  3. Tlazōlteōtl - Wikipedia

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    The priest (tlapouhqui) would be consulted by the penitent and would consult the 260-day ritual calendar (tonalpohualli) to determine the best day and time for the purification to take place. On the day of, he would listen to the sins confessed and then render judgment and penance, ranging from fasts to presentation of offerings and ritual song ...

  4. Passover Seder plate - Wikipedia

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    Maror and Chazeret [2] – Bitter herbs symbolizing the bitterness and harshness of the slavery that the Hebrews endured in Egypt.In Ashkenazi tradition, fresh romaine lettuce or endives (both representing the bitterness of the Roman invasions) or chazeret (horseradish) may be eaten as Maror in the fulfillment of the mitzvah of eating bitter herbs during the Seder.

  5. Sin offering - Wikipedia

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    The sin offering required when a priest had sinned, for which there is a similar sacrificial animal as the Yom Kippur offering, is considered by scholars to be a much later development, and only added to the text of Leviticus in the latest stages of its compilation, after sin offerings had begun to be seen as being about atonement for actual ...

  6. List of foods with religious symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Burnt in the ritual of Aarti, offered to gods, and used as libation or anointment ritual. [citation needed] Modak - a sweet dumpling with a filling of fresh coconut and jaggery made specially during Ganesh Chaturthi. [40] Ghevar - is a Rajasthani sweet traditionally associated with the Teej Festival. [41]

  7. Burnt offering (Judaism) - Wikipedia

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    A korban olah was also made as a sin offering on the appointment of a priest, [32] on the termination of a Nazirite's vow, [33] after recovery from tzaraath, [34] by a woman after childbirth, after recovery from a state of abnormal bodily discharges, [35] a gentile's conversion to Judaism, or as a voluntary sacrifice, when the sacrificial ...

  8. Sallekhana - Wikipedia

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    Sallekhana (IAST: sallekhanā), also known as samlehna, santhara, samadhi-marana or sanyasana-marana, [1] is a supplementary vow to the ethical code of conduct of Jainism.It is the religious practice of voluntarily fasting to death by gradually reducing the intake of food and liquids. [2]

  9. Seven deadly sins - Wikipedia

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    Knowledge of the seven deadly sin concept is known through discussions in various treatises and also depictions in paintings and sculpture, for example architectural decorations on certain churches of certain Catholic parishes and also from certain older textbooks. [1] Further information has been derived from patterns of confessions.