... through the voice of the mariner. Consider both the gothic and romantic language he uses to describe what occurs throughout the entire poem. In stanza 15 he personifies the cracking ice as it "growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!" Already, one can see Coleridge's heightened interest in nature as he describes it with a somewhat ominous, mysterious ... is referring to a ship that was meant to transport slaves from West Africa to the tropical Americas, but got blown into the south pole, near the Antarctic, where "the ice was all around" (stanza 15). This considered, it ...

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... of 13, read from the Torah, the primary scripture of Judaism. Christian youths participate in First Communion, in which they take part in the Eucharist (a ceremony involving blessed bread and wine, which represent the body and blood of Christ) for the first time. Weddings and funerals are two other ceremonies of passage laden with sacred meaning. For example, in tribal societies ... ...

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... on the model of older European black masses. The rite is officiated by a celebrant, a deacon, and a sub deacon. The instruments used include some candles, an inverted pentacle, a chalice full of wine or of liquor, a bell, a sword, an aspergillum or phallus, and an inverted crucifix. An authentically consecrated Host is also used. The altar of the black mass is a nude woman, and ... ...

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... traditions: the Northern Hunting traditions and the South Agrarian tradition. The older Northern Hunting tradition dates back to the first arrival of Paleo-Siberian peoples in North America during the Ice Age. Their ideology and forms of worship were rooted in the ancient Paleolithic way of life. Hunting and healing rituals and magic, the vision trances of shamans, and the worship ... ...

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