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Smudging, or other rites involving the burning of sacred herbs (e.g., white sage) or resins, is a ceremony practiced by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas.While it bears some resemblance to other ceremonies and rituals involving smoke (e.g., Australian smoking ceremony, some types of saining) from other world cultures, notably those that use smoke for spiritual cleansing or blessing, the ...
The stick is intended to represent the "god" to whom the feathers convey the prayers that are breathed into the "spirit" of the plumes. [citation needed] The Hopi Indians had a special prayer-stick to which a small bag of sacred meal was attached. Green and blue prayer-sticks are often found in the Pueblo graves and especially in the ceremonial ...
Today, sage smudging has become so popularized by non-Native wellness enthusiasts that chances are you’ve entered a yoga studio where the instructor has burned the plant at the end of a session ...
An aspergillum is used in Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican ceremonies, including the Rite of Baptism and during the Easter Season. [3] In addition, a priest will use the aspergillum to bless the candles during Candlemas services and the palms during Palm Sunday Mass. [4] At a requiem, if a coffin is present, the priest will sprinkle holy water on the coffin.
The psalmist expresses the symbolism of incense and prayer: “Let my prayer rise like incense before you; the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.” (Psalm 141:1). In the Gospel, Zechariah is in the temple at the time of the incense offering (Luke 1) and the gifts the Magi offered to the Christ Child included gold, frankincense ...
Ojibwe people may burn tobacco during a thunderstorm, usually in front of a wood stove, atop an oven or in a smudge pot, both to thank the thunderbirds for the rain and to supplicate them in the hope that it will prevent lightning from striking the home. [187] They may also bury tobacco outside their homes to propitiate the thunderers. [183]
Taking the bride to the bath house, Shalom Koboshvili, 1939. Male Wudu Facility at University of Toronto's Multifaith Centre.. Ritual purification is a ritual prescribed by a religion through which a person is considered to be freed of uncleanliness, especially prior to the worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness.
Lilanje (Serbian Cyrillic: лилање) is a south Slavic custom practiced mostly by Roman Catholic but also by Orthodox and Muslim, with commonly the young burning a dry birch or cherry cortex placed on the wooden stick (named lila, olalija, oratnik or oratnica) the night before Saint John's Eve, Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Feast of the Ascension and Feast of Saint Elijah, while it is ...