Instead, they performed their own bizarre ritual; a ceremonial urination on the tires of the minibus that took them to the launchpad – the same one from which Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
Swiss Catholics have reversed a ritual prayer that for 350 years implored the heavens to push back the glaciers. The Vatican approved the change as the effects of global warming became all too tangible in the Alps.
Swiss Catholics have reversed a ritual prayer that for 350 years implored the heavens to push back the glaciers. The Vatican approved the change as the effects of global warming became all too tangible in the Alps.
Moche villages and/or clan groups turned on each other in a battle for scarce resources like food and land. This escalated to the point where the Moche replaced ritual battles and human sacrifices with civil war.
The sacrifices were about making an unpredictable world more predictable. A harsh environment had moulded a harsh civilization with an elaborate set of rituals designed to ensure its survival.
Bourget realized there had to be a deliberate connection between the rain and the sacrifices. It led him to a new insight into the Moche world. The Moche had practiced a form of ritual designed to celebrate or encourage rain.
Their throats cut, the blood of the vanquished drained into a cup and the cup was then drunk by a God-like deity. It was, the archaeologists slowly realized, a story not of war but ritual combat followed by human sacrifice.
All the Moche soldiers were dressed alike, the same images were repeated time and again. When the battle was won, the vanquished were ritually sacrificed.
Here I was, getting ready to switch from real food — stuff with texture, flavor, ritual, all the trappings of overindulgent American fare — to a beige liquid.
Here I was, getting ready to switch from real food — stuff with texture, flavor, ritual, all the trappings of overindulgent American fare — to a beige liquid.
Here I was, getting ready to switch from real food — stuff with texture, flavor, ritual, all the trappings of overindulgent American fare — to a beige liquid.
Here I was, getting ready to switch from real food — stuff with texture, flavor, ritual, all the trappings of overindulgent American fare — to a beige liquid.
Tea is India's most popular drink, consuming 837,000 tons of it every year. The ritual of drinking chai transcends all boundaries, and roadsides are dotted with chai wallahs who serve it boiled up with spices, sugar and milk.
Tea is India's most popular drink, consuming 837,000 tons of it every year. The ritual of drinking chai transcends all boundaries, and roadsides are dotted with chai wallahs who serve it boiled up with spices, sugar and milk.
Tea is India's most popular drink, consuming 837,000 tons of it every year. The ritual of drinking chai transcends all boundaries, and roadsides are dotted with chai wallahs who serve it boiled up with spices, sugar and milk.
People with OCD often perform the same rituals repeatedly, disrupting their daily routines, for example, by washing hands over and over again. Dogs show the same kind of compulsions, such as when they chase their tails.
People with OCD often perform the same rituals repeatedly, disrupting their daily routines, for example, by washing hands over and over again. Dogs show the same kind of compulsions, such as when they chase their tails.
People with OCD often perform the same rituals repeatedly, disrupting their daily routines, for example, by washing hands over and over again. Dogs show the same kind of compulsions, such as when they chase their tails.
The deadly vapors that still waft out of this "gate to hell" were once used in ancient rituals to the gods of the underworld, and still claim the lives of unfortunate birds who get too close.
The deadly vapors that still waft out of this "gate to hell" were once used in ancient rituals to the gods of the underworld, and still claim the lives of unfortunate birds who get too close.
The deadly vapors that still waft out of this "gate to hell" were once used in ancient rituals to the gods of the underworld, and still claim the lives of unfortunate birds who get too close.
Swiss Catholics have reversed a ritual that for 350 years implored the heavens to push back the glaciers. The Vatican approved the change as the effects of global warming became all too tangible in the Alps.
Swiss Catholics have reversed a ritual that for 350 years implored the heavens to push back the glaciers. The Vatican approved the change as the effects of global warming became all too tangible in the Alps.
This bird is not performing an ecstatic dance or some elaborate courtship ritual -- he is simply preening after feeding from the bottom of the shallow water.
This bird is not performing an ecstatic dance or some elaborate courtship ritual -- he is simply preening after feeding from the bottom of the shallow water.
The Anti-Defamation League said there was an onus on all parties when three Orthodox Jewish men were detained by security after conducting a prayer ritual while on a flight.
The Anti-Defamation League said there was an onus on all parties when three Orthodox Jewish men were detained by security after conducting a prayer ritual while on a flight.
Nick Hume is a man who takes the law into his own hands after his son is murdered by a gang as an initiation ritual, and must protect his family from the gang's vengeance.
Traditionally a highly structured martial art with rituals that show respect to opponents, Muay Thai is now more focused on using every part of the body as a weapon.