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Mythology
...or object. ''[[Cult]] myths'' are often seen as explanations for elaborate festivals that magnify the power of the [[deity]]. ''Prestige myths'' are usually ass ...as the reduction to narrative shorthand of ritual mime performed on public festivals, and in many cases recorded pictorially." (''The Greek Myths,'' Introductio

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Hades
...who offered the sacrifice had to turn away his face. Every hundred years festivals were held in his honor, called the Secular Games.

20 KB (3,410 words) - 17:25, 18 April 2007
Naga
...remains powerful in Southern India and enclaves of S.E Asia, with numerous festivals and rituals conducted in their honor. As powerful symbols of fertility, the

18 KB (2,996 words) - 00:54, 29 June 2009
Marquis de Sade
...the 1990s by fashion designer Pierre Cardin who now holds regular theatre festivals there.)

21 KB (3,316 words) - 18:44, 18 April 2007
Tengu
...ous tengu masks that can be found in many Japanese restaurants. In village festivals the two figures are often portrayed with identical red, phallic-nosed mask

22 KB (3,508 words) - 14:34, 5 June 2008
Halloween
*Santino, Jack ''Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life'', University of Tennessee Press. 1994. ISBN 0870498134

25 KB (3,976 words) - 17:15, 18 April 2007