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11Itako — This is a page about the profession. For the city in Ibaraki prefecture, see Itako, Ibaraki. An itako is a traditional, blind, usually female shaman from northern Japan.In training for initiation, itako dress in a white kimono 100 days before the …
12Plains Indian — a member of any of the American Indian tribes, as those of the Algonquian, Athabascan, Caddoan, Kiowa, Siouan, or Uto Aztecan linguistic families, that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. All were more or less nomadic, following the buffalo, and …
13lustration — n. 1. Purification, cleansing, washing. 2. (Antiq.) Religious purification, ceremony of purification, lustrum …
14Credentes — or Believers, were the ordinary followers of what became known as the Cathar or Albigensian movement, a Christian sect which flourished in western Europe during the 11th, 12th and 13th Centuries. Credentes constituted up the main part of the… …
15'Umi-a-Liloa — 1470 1525 ruled as the 14th Alii Aimoku of Hawaii 1510 1525. He was the sovereign king or chief of the island of Hawaii.Royal Birth Umi a Liloa, commonly known as Umi, was younger son of Liloa, 12th Alii Aimoku of Hawaii. Umi s mother… …
16ʻUmi-a-Liloa — (1470–1525) ruled as the 14th Alii Aimoku of Hawaiʻi island from 1510 to 1525. Contents 1 Royal Birth 2 Early life 3 Recognized by Liloa 4 …
17Misogi — Purification or purification ceremony. It can have the same range of meanings as Harai/Harae but refers especially to the use of salt water (or fresh water, cold or warm, or just salt) to remove tsumi or kegare, sins and pollution. At the… …
18biblical literature — Introduction four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha. The Old… …
19Shinto — Shintoist, n., adj. /shin toh/, n. 1. Also, Shintoism. the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship. adj. 2. Also, Shintoistic. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Shinto. [ < Japn shinto, earlier shintau <… …
20ceremonial object — ▪ religion Introduction any object used in a ritual or a religious ceremony. Throughout the history of religions and cultures, objects used in cults, rituals, and sacred ceremonies have almost always been of both utilitarian and symbolic… …
