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She had the power to fertilise, multiply and fructify plant and animal seed, and her laws and rites protected all activities of the agricultural cycle.
en.wikipedia.org For humanly instituted rites are not sacraments, properly speaking, because human beings do not have the authority to promise grace.
en.wikipedia.org They can record them privately in secular contracts, or solemnise or sacralise them, if they want, according to the rites of whatever religions they believe in.
www.independent.ie In other cultures a death mask may be a clay or another artifact placed on the face of the deceased before burial rites.
en.wikipedia.org Initiation rites are sometimes spur-of-the-moment, such as forcing a blindfolded candidate to be lifted into the air by a block and tackle.
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