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  2. Navajo song ceremonial complex - Wikipedia

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    The Navajo song ceremonial complex is a spiritual practice used by certain Navajo ceremonial people to restore and maintain balance and harmony in the lives of the people. . One half of the ceremonial complex is the Blessing Way, while the other half is the Enemy Way (Anaʼí Ndáá

  3. Celebrations, Rituals of Peace and Prayer - Wikipedia

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    The volume contains 12 poems, five of which were previously published. Critic Richard Long called two of the previously published poems, "On the Pulse of Morning" and "A Brave and Startling Truth", Angelou's "public" poems. [1] She read "On the Pulse of Morning", her most famous poem, at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1993. [2]

  4. School Prayer (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "School Prayer" is a poem written by American poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman; [1] it is the first of 50 poems in Ackerman's book I Praise My Destroyer, [2] which was published in 1998. "School Prayer" is a pledge to protect and revere nature, in every form it may appear.

  5. Upanayana - Wikipedia

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    The education of a student was not limited to ritual and philosophical speculations found in the Vedas and the Upaniṣads. It extended to many arts and crafts, which had their own, similar rites of passages. [30] The Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, Āgamas, and Purāṇas genres of literature in Hinduism describe these as Śilpa Śāstras. [30]

  6. Children's poetry - Wikipedia

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    Les Contenances de la Table, published in 1487, is a French example; [1] The Babee's Boke and Queen Elizabethe's Academy are both English examples, printed in the 1500s. [ 5 ] The first children's book printed in the New World was John Cotton 's Milk for Babes, Drawn out of the Breasts of Both Testaments, Chiefly for the Spiritual Nourishment ...

  7. The Kissing Hand - Wikipedia

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    [1] [4] The park ranger said that the purpose of the ritual was to transfer scent from the mother to the baby so that the baby could recall the mother's scent by bringing its paw to its face. [1] Penn "started a similar ritual with her daughter — kissing her hand and telling her that whenever she was homesick, she could put her hand to her face."

  8. Traditional rhyme - Wikipedia

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    As an example, the schoolchildren's rhyme commonly noting the end of a school year, "no more pencils, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks," seems to be found in literature no earlier than the 1930s—though the first reference to it in that decade, in a 1932 magazine article, deems it, "the old glad song that we hear every spring."

  9. Rite of passage - Wikipedia

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    For example, the cutting of the hair for a person who has just joined the army. He or she is "cutting away" the former self: the civilian. The transition (liminal) phase is the period between stages, during which one has left one place or state but has not yet entered or joined the next.