O Most holy of all sacrifices, have mercy on us. O True propitiatory Sacrifice for the living and the dead, have mercy on us. O Heavenly antidote, by which we are preserved from sin, have mercy on us.

He began to read the Scriptures and various devotional books. As he read about propitiatory sacrifice in the Old Testament, he thought, "What, may I transfer all my guilt to another? Has God ...

(Possibly as a form of insurance, people in the region treat leopards and tigers as gods, or waghobas, and make propitiatory offerings at small waghoba shrines.) A camera trap set in South Africa ...

Finally, some of the purest and oldest forms of our traditional music are preserved in the propitiatory rituals of rural Nat worship. As Dr. Htin Aung explains in his essay, these spirits from the ...

The results, then, of this second period are: a new base of action at Malta, the closure of the Straits to the Russian navy, and the occupation of the Ionian Islands and their sudden cession to Greece ...

the shamans of Siberia organized various propitiatory rites to support him. The first was the shaman of the city of Angarsk in the Irkutsk region, Artur Tsybikov, who had already lit a bonfire on ...

This results in a sort of ceremony with specific bodily actions, postures, and attitudes, according to a precise sequence that leads to a dance, whether propitiatory and liberating. Not only a ...