We're losing a ritual.

And I began my ritual.

A shaman performing a ritual.

It's the African anteater ritual!

It became a habit, a ritual.

Well you are describing a classic ritual.

Some people dislike the traditional New Year's ritual.

And they did this incredible ritual combat dance.

Look! There's a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up.

The sacred ritual took place after being postponed twice.

A sacred ritual took place in the magnificent temple.

Spectator play, ritual play we're involved in some of that.

And based on this, we created a ritual for leaders.

They harrass our Wise Men and desecrate their ritual fires.

And then you do the ritual dances that empower the crosses.

You see it is based on the Hindu ritual of Darshan.

And when my ritual began, this very voluble patient began to quiet down.

I would submit to you that that is a ritual of exceeding importance.

And so he took me through the initiation ritual for a Bamana priest.

and (finally) those who do not miss their ritual prayers at the prescribed times

And when things got really tough, the ritual of the dinner table worked magic.

So, 500 years after Columbus, these ancient rhythms of landscape are played out in ritual.

No, this ritual was about the one message that physicians have needed to convey to their patients.

Charles Kibangi and Sandy Ubuki, for recreating the African anteater ritual... here on PBS African Cultural Hour.

I remember so many huge, hollowed out, haunted eyes staring up at me as I performed this ritual.

And they actually take items of clothing and photographs, and they burn them as part of the ritual.

And when you watch bonobo play, you're seeing the very evolutionary roots of human laughter, dance and ritual.

And in that time, she created an alternative ritual, which involved girls coming of age without the cut.

And Agnes hadn't let me come to the house for days, because they were preparing this whole ritual.

Say 'My prayer, my ritual sacrifice, my living, my dying all belongs to God, the Lord of all Being.

To this day, they remain ruled by a ritual priesthood but the training for the priesthood is rather extraordinary.

We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient physician relationship.

When we were there she was doing a ritual where she reconciles girls, who have run away, with their families.

If someone wants the ceremony to be held in accordance with Japanese Shinto ritual, then that is possible at this church.

It was a very old ritual that seemed symbolic of the political struggle that was changing the face of South Africa.

So I think it tells us that we've designed this ritual to connect us to this new couple, connect us emotionally.

And he viewed proto shamanism as a kind of original attempt, through ritual, to rekindle a connection that had been irrevocably lost.

But the sacrifice of buffalo and the ritual display of wealth also exhibits the status of the deceased, and, by extension, the deceased's family.

We seem to have forgotten as though, with the explosion of knowledge, the whole human genome mapped out at our feet, we are lulled into inattention, forgetting that the ritual is cathartic to the physician, necessary for the patient forgetting that the ritual has meaning and a singular message to convey to the patient.

Neither of us could skip this ritual, which had nothing to do with detecting rales in the lung, or finding the gallop rhythm of heart failure.

So this cultural complex surrounding death, the ritual enactment of the end of life, has made death the most visible and remarkable aspect of Toraja's landscape.

A common theme among these ancient paintings is animal forms, as well as the human hand perhaps as a signature, a story, or a ritual calling.

So in bringing back this childhood ritual, you need to go out and, in one chapter, take a picture of a flower and then tag it.

For every people We have laid down a ritual of sacrifice( although the purpose of the ritual is the same )that they pronounce the name of Allah over the cattle He has provided them. Your Lord is One God so submit yourselves to Him alone. And give, (O Prophet), glad tidings to those that humble themselves (before Allah),

If those of you who are here remember that I mentioned that they remain ruled by a ritual priesthood, but the training for the priesthood is extraordinary.