Knowing that their friends and neighbors no longer hold marriage sacred can make it easier for people to wander.

Other elements forming part of the ritual pattern were a triumphal procession and a sacred marriage.

The ritual sacred marriage in a marriage chamber.

In order to bring rain, this woman had to enact the sacred marriage with this serpent by kissing it on the nose three times.

The sacred marriage is consummated in death.

Agathiyar did not witness Samani's sacred marriage in the North.

We learn that theirs was a sacred marriage, a karmic journey across time and space.

Langdon explains that what she witnessed was an ancient ceremony known as Hieros gamos or "sacred marriage".

I believe in some areas, the sacred marriages are done publicly.

Sometimes the ceremony was held as a sacred marriage rather than a burial.