A coming-of-age ceremony was performed when they became young adults.
The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony is supposed to take place at the more tender age of 13.
They sometimes seemed to be expensive productions that helped parents raise their social radar rather than sacred coming-of-age ceremonies for 13-year-olds.
Yes, myths and coming-of-age ceremonies help prepare boys, giving them the assurances they need in the transition from boy to man.
Medicine men still train there, and coming-of-age ceremonies are conducted there.
Unlike that national coming-of-age ceremony, this year's fair offers a glimpse of a robotic future.
He came to be Oz's closest friend, and was invited to be a part of the boy's coming-of-age ceremony.
I had heard of zhlonjiz since toddlerhood but only ever seen or smelled it once before, at my coming-of-age ceremony three years earlier.
Luciano, in fact, had been there at the coming-of-age ceremony as one of the sponsors.
Nowadays non-religious coming-of-age ceremonies are organized in several European countries.