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61ELDER — (Heb. זָקֵן, zaken). In Israel, as among all other ancient peoples, the elder is not only a person of advanced age, but also a man of distinct social grade (cf. šībum in Akkadian, senator in Latin, geron in Greek, and sheikh in Arabic). The… …
62healing cult — ▪ religion religious group or movement that places major, or even exclusive, emphasis on the treatment or prevention by nonmedical means of physical or spiritual ailments, which are often seen as manifestations of evil. Such cults generally …
63sacrilege — (n.) c.1300, crime of stealing what is consecrated to God, from O.Fr. sacrilege (12c.), from L. sacrilegium temple robbery, from sacrilegus stealer of sacred things, from phrase sacrum legere to steal sacred things, from sacrum sacred object… …
64Circus Maximus — For other uses, see Circus Maximus (disambiguation). Model of ancient Rome in the Imperial era, showing the Circus Maximus (foreground), the Colliseum (top of picture) and between them, the Palatine The Circus Maximus (Latin for great or large… …
65Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act — Susquehannock artifacts on display at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, 2007 The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Pub. L. 101 601, 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq., 104 Stat. 3048, is a United States federal law passed on 16 …
66Devils Tower National Monument — IUCN Category III (Natural Monument) Devils Tower, 2005 …
67Sacrilege — is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object. In a less proper sense, any transgression against the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege. It can come in the form of irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things. When the… …
68shrine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. altar, temple; receptacle(for sacred objects), reliquary; tomb. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sacred place, sacred object, hallowed place, reliquary, sepulcher, memorial; see also altar , church 1 . III… …
69sac|ri|lege — «SAK ruh lihj», noun. an intentional injury to anything sacred or held sacred; disrespectful treatment of anyone or anything sacred: »Robbing the church was a sacrilege. SYNONYM(S): profanation. ╂[< Old French sacrilege, learned borrowing from …
70Puja (Buddhism) — In Buddhism, puja (Pali: pūjā ) are expressions of honour, worship, devotional attention. [Rhys Davids Stede (1921 25), p. 471, entry for Pūjā, available at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2:1:2985.pali (retrieved 2007… …
