Ceremonial Occasions
A ceremony may mark a rite of passage in a human life, marking the significance of, for example:
- birth (birthday)
- initiation (college orientation week)
- puberty
- social adulthood (Bar (or Bat) Mitzvah)
- graduation
- awarding
- retirement
- death (Day of the Dead)
- burial (funeral)
- spiritual (baptism, communion)
- Wedding
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Famous quotes containing the words ceremonial and/or occasions:
“The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description.... Criticism is ceremonial revivification.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“Across Parker Avenue from the fort is the Site of the Old Gallows, where 83 men “stood on nothin’, a-lookin’ up a rope.” The platform had a trap wide enought to “accommodate” 12 men, but half that number was the highest ever reached. On two occasions six miscreants were executed. There were several groups of five, some quartets and trios.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program. Arkansas: A Guide to the State (The WPA Guide to Arkansas)