Ekadashi holds a great religious and spiritual significance in Hindu religion. It occurs during a time of transition in the lunar cycle, Ekadashi is regarded as a gateway to higher consciousness ...
Falling on March 14 this year, it includes rituals like placing idols on swings, singing devotional songs, and applying colors. Celebrations, especially in West Bengal, Odisha, and Assam ...
Then, devotees empty the vessels when the last circuit is complete. After the Holika Dahan bonfire ritual, tilaks are smeared on the foreheads of devotees. Baked or roasted crops of the season are ...
No two Holi celebrations in India are the same. In one town, women playfully chase men away with sticks, while in another, flower petals rain down like confetti. Some communities turn the festival ...
Archaeologists working at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman port city, have discovered the oldest Jewish ritual bath outside of the Middle East, along with an oil lamp decorated with a menorah dated ...
This includes a wide array of rituals. To let go of your fears, write them down on a piece of paper and safely burn it as a symbolic way of releasing the past. Since the total lunar eclipse ...
An attempt to get a free birthday sundae at Friendly’s turned into a satanic ritual, with Lady Gaga serving as both waitress and master of ceremonies in the Saturday Night Live sketch.
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A warrant released Friday morning reveals new details about the “fraternity ritual” that is believed to have led to the death of Southern University student Caleb Wilson.
Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...
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Instead, they unearthed what appears to be the oldest mikvah, or Jewish ritual bath, in Europe, likely dating back to the late fourth or early fifth century C.E. As Riccardo Di Segni ...
The Royal touch was a ritual practised over hundreds of years in medieval England, where people would travel from far and wide to have their oozing boils massaged by a King or a Queen. On the ...