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You'll find that some rooms still house their lustral bowls for ritual purification.

Away, then, and may all profit by the lustral devotions!"

The king bowed and smiled to the audience, dabbing lustral water behind his ears.

The lustral waters drew their purifying powers from being both fresh and reddened by the bird's blood.

Above, the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove sprays lustral water from its beak.

Surely we proved ourselves by attendance at the Lustral Rite; why has he sent us so far?"

This is the lustral agape which must be celebrated before the communion, as was the custom in primitive Christianity. '

"Two days hence the Lustral Rites begin.

The "lustral basin" and the location of the room in a sanctuary complex cannot be ignored; hence, "priest-king."

The lower floor here houses the throne room with ornate griffin frescoes and a lustral basin for ritual purification.

The flitter the technician pointed out shimmered in a cream and lavender finish that could only have been obtained with lustral plating.

All tools and equipment will be gilded and lustral water made to sprinkle on the tools and participants.

Originally it was the largest lustral procession of Brussels which took place once a year on the Sunday before Pentecost.

Nevertheless, there is every reason to see the lustral basin, originally embellished with unequivocally religious frescoes, as a special chthonic shrine.

Brahmin rituals are still common, including the use of holy strings for blessing and pouring of lustral water from conch shells.

We are a group of pilgrims, bound for the Lustral Rites at Erze Damath.

Voynod decided to rehearse cries of passion and devotion frenzies to be exhibited at the Lustral Rites.

The assemblage is often greeted by villagers along the route who expect a blessing (tuk mon or blessing with lustral water).

Visitors purified themselves in a lustral room beside it, then interviewed the King on his throne-which has been reconstructed, flanked by two painted griffins.

This ceremony of sprinkling the congregation with lustral water is performed by the celebrant with the assistance of the other sacred ministers.

Every year during the Songkran Festival, people would ascend to the cave to pour lustral water on the Buddha image to pay respect.

The Lustral project was soon set aside, with The Space Brothers focusing on their other aliases such as Chakra.

The lustral basin was originally thought to have had a ritual washing use, but the lack of drainage has more recently brought some scholars to doubt this theory.

Which, of course, can result in misinterpretation: the "lustral baths" that Sir Arthur Evans unearthed at Knossos were more likely to have been latrines.

On the table were two lustral teapots and a pair of Djring cups in their saucers, the porcelain already glowing as the light level in the study dropped.