Snatra Puja is a ritual celebrating this event in which Indra does an Abhisheka on the Tirthankara on Mount Meru.

This is also manifested in feminine deity oriented festivals and rituals celebrating Shakti or feminine power like Navratri festival among the Gujarati People and Thiruvathira festival among the Malayali people.

It is widely seen that various rituals celebrating the arrival of spring or summer are practiced among many Turkic tribes in Central Asia.

In those incidents, young marines were videotaped writhing in pain while trainers spiked their jump pins into their chests as a crude ritual celebrating the completion of parachute training.

The dance is a part of a ritual celebrating the goddess of paddy Dewi Sri.

Religion, time and astronomy : Mesoamerican civilizations shared an interest in the recording and keeping track of time through observation of celestial bodies and religious rituals celebrating their different phases.