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It survives to the present time, both in the Shinto and the Buddhist rite; and every spring an Imperial messenger presents at the tomb of the Emperor Jimmu, the same offerings of birds and fish and seaweed, rice and rice-wine, which were made to the spirit of the Founder of the Empire twenty-five hundred years ago.
This was a social rite the omission of which nothing could excuse. On that day it was Ethel who had called. 'Auntie was all right. She was making a lot of parkin, and of course I had to taste it, all new, you know. I'm simply stodged. 'Don't say "stodged." 'Oh, mother! You won't let us say anything, Ethel dismally protested; and Leonora secretly sympathised with the grown woman in revolt. 'Oh!
The chief rite, later, is to blindfold every lad, with a blanket closely drawn over his head, to make whirring sounds with the tundun, or Greek rhombos, then to pluck off the blankets, and bid the initiate raise their faces to the sky. Mungan initiated the rites, and destroyed earth by water when they were impiously revealed.
His mother, with her lace cap and white hair and soft plump hands, was pouring tea through a strainer as though it were a rite. On her plate were three little frilly papers that had held sugary cakes, on her lips were fragments of sugar.
You salute and give your fealty to the coming Kingdom of God. And upon that I would have you fix your minds to the exclusion of much that, I know only too well, has been narrow and evil and sectarian in your preparation for this solemn rite. God is like a precious jewel found among much rubble; you must cast the rubble from you.
The early hour was as incredible as this social phenomenon. "Daughter!" said Breede, with half a glance at the flapper, and deeming that he had performed a familiar social rite. "Pleased to meet you!" said Bean, dazedly. The flapper jerked her head in a double nod.
So on that day of the Minige nobody used to go out into the streets after a certain hour, and even now very few of the people of the little city leave their homes during the festival. After having followed the deity through all the city, the Bekkwa used to perform, between two and three o'clock in the darkness of the morning, some secret rite by the seaside.
The Quakers agree to this, but they say that he must have done it, in these instances, on motives very different from those of an indispensable Christian rite.
The sacred rite of the "tub" had been duly performed, and the freshly-dried person of the present narrator was about to be insinuated into the first instalment of clothing, when a hurried step was heard upon the stair, and the voice of our laboratory assistant, Polton, arose at my colleague's door. "There's a gentleman downstairs, sir, who says he must see you instantly on most urgent business.
Though the forms may resemble those of Egypt, the spirit is that which Egypt had lost; though a hereditary priesthood is retained, the law in its fulness is announced to all the people. Though the Egyptian rite of circumcision is preserved, and the Egyptian symbols reappear in all the externals of worship, the tendency to take the type for the reality is sternly repressed.
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