The groups appearing this year will offer dances drawn from age-old rituals of initiation, war, hunting, harvesting and the welcoming of guests.

Breakfast does make one feel somewhat subsumed into an age-old domestic ritual.

The choice was to be decided by the age-old ritual of Yi zang li, literally 'one funeral'.

Every week, depending on the season, 5 or 10 musicians undergo the age-old ritual known as the "New York debut."

The age-old ritual of a year ending and another beginning offers the first real opportunity since Sept. 11 for many people to give it a try.

He was learning at first hand the leisurely age-old ritual of oriental bargaining.

Although choreographed only this summer, "Imbauan Salvang" resembled an age-old ritual.

Already, you can see the age-old rituals being personalized.

They have struggled with loss, waded through months of misinformation and, in many cases, been denied the age-old ritual of burying the dead.