Water is a scarce commodity in much of Africa, particularly in southern Africa. This is well symbolised in the name of the Botswana national currency, pula (rain). When tragedies like flooding and ...

Beyond its monumental walls, Sacsayhuaman contains a network of springs and channels that hint at a sacred water-focused ...

Sacred Waters will be a new community water ritual created for Cherry Valley that draws on the indigenous Slavic and Animist ...

Precolumbian water management : an introduction / Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash -- Cosmological and sociopolitical synergy in preclassic architectural complexes / Ann Cyphers ... [et al.] -- A ...

(The Conversation) — Native Americans are struggling to find sage for their spiritual practices as the plant is being overharvested for sale to the wider public. (The Conversation) — White sage, which ...

(RNS) — Religious rituals are sensory encounters. The smell of candles, incense, the taste of wine at Communion or prasad, the blessed food at Hindu worship practices: Each is aimed at involving the ...

Kanchipuram's Ekambaranathar Temple witnessed its Maha Kumbhabhishekam after 17 years, with priests performing homams, ...