In some cultures they were taken to a sacred island and left there.

His home at Motutapu (sacred island) is surrounded with pools for breeding fish.

It is hard for the Vrykolatios to find food on this sacred island.

To begin at the beginning: doves come from Cyprus, island sacred to Venus.

They were cut and bleeding from climbing over the sharp rock formations on the sacred island.

This moat, some believe, was to create the image of a sacred island.

"Why do you come to this sacred island?"

The next day the king is brought in a ship onto the sacred island, and goes up into the hills.

The town has a ferry service to the sacred island of Kinkasan.

It states that he was buried on the sacred island of Iona, probably in about the year 1402.