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Catholic priests in Rome, Italy, 2005 A vajracharya (thunderbolt-carrier), a Newar Buddhist priest Bronze statue of an Egyptian priest, 6th c. BCE, Ephesus Archaeological Museum. A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They ...
Pakistan ka matlab kya, La Illaha Illal Allah. (Urdu: پاکستان کا مطلب کیا لاالہ الا اللہ — ; lit.What does Pakistan mean?... There is no God but Allah) was a couplet and political slogan coined in 1943 by Urdu poet Asghar Sodai.
the priests of Ka, in charge of daily worship, known as the "Servants of Ka"; The priests-hery-heb, "those who carry the feast", whose role is to read the funeral liturgy; the ritual priests (ḫr(y).w-ḥb.t), literally those under the ritual, responsible for reading the glorifications during funeral ceremonies;
The ancient Egyptians believed that a soul (kꜣ and bꜣ; Egypt. pron. ka/ba) was made up of many parts. In addition to these components of the soul, there was the human body (called the ḥꜥ, occasionally a plural ḥꜥw, meaning approximately "sum of bodily parts").
Vedic yajnas are typically performed by four priests of the Vedic priesthood: the hota, the adhvaryu, the udgata and the Brahma. [4] The functions associated with the priests were: [ 5 ] The Hotri recites invocations and litanies drawn from the Rigveda .These invocations could consist of single verses ( ṛca ), strophes (triples called tṛca ...
The priesthood of Kemetic Orthodoxy consists of both lay (non-ordained) and ordained priests, using the term "priest" for both males and females. The primary role of a priest is to serve the members of the faith, rather than the Names of Netjer. A W'ab priest, known as a purity priest, is a lay priest within Kemetic Orthodoxy. These individuals ...
The word purohita derives from the Sanskrit, puras meaning "front", and hita, "placed". The word is also used synonymously with the word pandit , which also means "priest". Tirtha purohita means the purohita who sit at the fords of the holy rivers or holy tanks and who have maintained the records of the forefathers of the Hindu family for ...
In sections 10.43 - 10.44, Manu lists Kshatriya tribes who, neglecting the priests and their rites, had fallen to the status of Shudras. These are: Pundrakas, ...