Examples of cultic

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Each of the three cultic areas has its own leader and topographic centre.
They are also rival appropriations of history itself at this same cultic level.
But cultic acts at temples dedicated to emperors had an intimate link with authority.
Most likely, this high appreciation is related to their cultic function, which is evident from their occurrence in religious contexts.
The desire for these vessels derived from the function they served in cultic rituals.
This cultic isolation is clearly aimed at preventing the formation of social relationships that might compromise their loyalty to the group.
The full content of the aunt's cultic world seems to reside in this act of blessing.
However, in their cultic rituals, the practitioners always murmur the written words and breathe them into an object in order to consecrate it.
It is about the need that these groups have to manifest themselves, to colonize the home, to define its sphere, to fill it with their personal cultic interests.
We have foreclosed the cultic function of the opera house, in the sense that we do not believe it puts us in touch with divine or cosmic powers.
How might we codify opera's 'cultic' value?
Christina's reputation for sanctity received no further written or cultic commemoration, and she was soon forgotten.
Implicit in this statement is a recognition that the two domains can offset each other: a music that can reveal how the cultic is manufactured is not bewitched by it.
It was frightening, showing the degeneration into sectarian, cultic and indeed mindless violence in certain nations, nations which once had high standards and order.
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