gods and spirits造句

• "Harree Pottah " may be a smash box office hit in America but in Japan the current sensation is " Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi " an animated fantasy about a sulky, pudgy-faced, 10-year-old girl trapped in a bathhouse with Japanese gods and spirits.
• This spell invokes the power of Thoth in order to ensure the mummy of the deceased is protected by a large number of gods and spirits, who are similar in appearance to the fearsome guardians of the gates, caverns and mounds mentioned in earlier spells.
• A table of offerings to the gods and spirits to be invited during the ceremony is arranged, and " khan kamnon " ( ), a bowl of flowers, joss sticks, candles, white cloth and money amounting to six baht, is prepared for worship of the gods.
• It is thought that optical devices like concave mirrors and the camera obscura have been used since antiquity to fool spectators into believing they saw real gods and spirits, but it was the magician " physicist " Phylidor who created what must have been the first true phantasmagoria show.
• They had developed a common set of cultural characteristics, which combined to form the mainstream of the cultural pattern of Trinidad, though many Europeans still refused to accept African religious practices as genuine forms of worship and treated the devotees of African religions badly But the masses combined elements of Catholicism with non-Christian religious practices : African gods and spirits were equated with Catholic saints.
• Revival has two sects : " 60 order " ( or Zion Revival, the order of the heavens ) and " 61 order " ( or Pocomania, the order of the earth ) . 60 order worships God and spirits of air or the heavens on a Saturday and considers itself to be the more'clean'sect . 61 order more deals with spirits of the earth.
• Orsi talks about the importance of dynamic subject matter covered by the study of lived religion :  the study of lived religion is shaped by and shapes the way family life is organized, for instance; how the dead are buried, children disciplined, the past and present imagined, moral boundaries established and challenged, home constructed, maintained and destroyed, the gods and spirits worshiped and importuned and so on.
• Another sociologist pointed out that " these objects are called fetishes or'objects that are imbued with deep symbolic significance to become sacred objects that embody gods and spirits'. " In the monkey tree's case, it was because of a " natural transformation of its material appearance that reminds people of an important legend ", and " this form of worship is actually basic to human religious behaviour ".