Meanings of pagan rite in inglés

The ballet describes an imaginary pagan rite in a prehistoric Russian springtime.

Often, as might have been anticipated, the ancient pagan rite has attached itself to church festivals.

And now, as they knelt, eyes looking into eyes, it was like a pagan rite in the ancient world.

Uncle Henry can call cremation pagan if he wants to, but this open-coffin shit is the real pagan rite.

In fact I find it amazing that a culture so sophisticated should still indulge in what was almost a pagan rite.

They're nonconformists of the old sort, and view Christmas with an abiding suspicion as at best a pagan rite or (far worse) downright Papist.

The the heathen, and to avoid everything having the semblance of pagan rites.

I-Translate ,please ; Idonot understand your pagan rites and ceremonies.

One supported his side, telling of pagan rites and animal sacrifices.

Neither do I wish to be buried with Pagan rites.

Whoever permitted any Pagan rite-eventhe hanging of a chaplet on a tree-forfeited his estate.

I tell you it's like a Pagan rite.

If father was aware that they had done pagan rites, he said nothing of it in my presence.

Back then farmers performed pagan rites to disperse the ghosts of winter to help bring a fruitful harvest.

Muhammad had done the same when he had given the ancient pagan rites of the hajj a monotheistic relevance.

It would be unreasonable to suppose that the Egyptians, upon embracing Christianity, at once threw off all of their pagan rites.