ritual

Examples of ritually

ritually
Ritually significant numbers of unusual, whole objects occur in the fill of the pit.
Once the champion had ritually offered his body as the vehicle for truth, the ordeal was expected to work.
For some reason this hidden knowledge was ritually destroyed.
This text works like other magico-ritual texts; its entextualized movement (of tenses) imitates the cosmic end being ritually enacted - magic!
Unlike validation of ideologically driven commitments, which can involve logical and factual reasoning and possibly ritualization as well, supernatural beliefs can only be ritually validated.
In this context, she found "a strong operational overlap between caves and cache holes or ritually constructed holes" (1995:36).
Ivory tusks were ensured safe arrival at the coast after they had been ritually marked with spots, lines and figures.
This may have been done to transpor t ritual food items or because such vessels were required due to ritually prescribed norms.
Because religious beliefs cannot be deductively or inductively validated, validation occurs only by ritually addressing the very emotions motivating religion.
The foundation of a ritually ' complete ' village thus also requires the immigration of a minimum of three different lineages.
She argues that a village, a house, and an altar are all analogous, as their perimeters are all ritually created and mutually connected.
This attitude concerns not only involuntary pain but, more significantly, deliberately and ritually inflicted pain.
All existing fires were extinguished, and a new fire was ritually ignited at a sacred location.
However, some territorial control existed, and was ritually organized within and between clans.
Apart from protecting caravan personnel, the mganga also ritually cared for the ivory.
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