Another and possibly separate goddess was concerned with renewal and the central rites of the vegetation cycle.

And now, instead of festivity, the central rites are those of death - Leo Piontek's funeral.

Its central rite, which is public, is the Gnostic Mass.

The royal horse sacrifice (Ashvamedha) is a central rite in the Yajurveda.

The music introduced the central rite, a solemn, circuslike initiation ceremony that unfolded on two mobile towers at opposite sides of the studio.

It is the central rite of Ordo Templi Orientis and its ecclesiastical arm, Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica.

Its central rite, which is public, is called Liber XV, or the Gnostic Mass.

This is the rite of which the other Petro rites are shadows, echoes, imitations half understood - the central rite.

As a rule women did not perform animal sacrifice, the central rite of most major public ceremonies.

The central rite of the brotherhood is called the "Glimpse-Of-Extraordinary-Beauty," during which the celebrants believe they are "enveloped and penetrated by the thoughts of a god."