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  2. Haitian Vodou - Wikipedia

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    The mastery of ritual forms is considered imperative in Vodou. [206] The purpose of ritual is to echofe ("heat things up"), thus bringing about change, whether that be to remove barriers or to facilitate healing. [207] Secrecy is important in Vodou. [208] It is an initiatory tradition, [209] operating through a system of graded induction or ...

  3. Zalando - Wikipedia

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    Zalando was accumulating losses ever since it was founded until it started making a profit in 2014. The most important cost factors for Zalando are fulfilment and marketing costs, both taking up 50% of total revenues alone without the costs of sales included, with marketing costs as high as 25% in 2010. [31]

  4. Netotiliztli - Wikipedia

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    Netotiliztli, often known as the dance of celebration and worship, was a traditional dance practiced by the Mexica people. [1] As a pre-Hispanic tradition, it was a spiritual dance, deeply associated with the worship of Aztec gods.

  5. Ritual - Wikipedia

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    A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. [1] [2] Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals are characterized, but not defined, by formalism, traditionalism, invariance, rule-governance, sacral symbolism, and performance. [3]

  6. Zār - Wikipedia

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    The so-called zār ritual or zār cult is the practice of reconciling the possessing spirit and the possessed individual. Zār possession is often considered lifelong and the rituals associated with it are a form of adorcism , though some have falsely attributed it as an exorcism rite because it involves possession. [ 2 ]

  7. Shaking tent ceremony - Wikipedia

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    Shaking tents could be a lodge or a teepee used to summon spirits. Shaking tent ceremony is a ritual of some Indigenous people in North America that is used to connect the people with the spirit realm and establish a connection and line of communication between the spirit world and the mortal world.

  8. List of religions and spiritual traditions - Wikipedia

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    While the word religion is difficult to define, one standard model of religion used in religious studies courses defines it as [a] system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations ...

  9. Eroto-comatose lucidity - Wikipedia

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    Crowley first described the rite in a tract titled Eroto-Comatose Lucidity. [7] The ritual as described by Crowley involves one "ritualist-seer" and several aides. [1] [8] Donald Michael Kraig advises that the more sexually experienced the aides are, the better the ritual works, [1] and that the aides be members of the opposite sex. [1]