The process of hiding or depositing them, besides protecting them from danger, is believed by the researchers to represent a cult ritual.

Ferrell, it is claimed, used the book during cult rituals.

The leaders typically held cult rituals well away from established towns and colonial authorities, thus making reliable information about these practices very difficult to acquire.

The continuity of this early culture is seen in the folk arts, cult rituals, worship of trees, serpents and mother images in kavus.

Along with the typical bull slaying scene so common amongst the cult, other paintings depicted different cult rituals.

"And they were probably enjoyed at home as status symbols or prestige objects rather than as ceremonial items used in cult rituals."

"Square Play" has the feeling of nasty cult ritual.

However, there is no archaeological evidence as a rule of pre-medieval use as site for cult rituals or sacrifices.

The police said the goat was the victim of a sacrificial cult ritual.

I've never known them to be cruel before, except for the stories about cult rituals, she ventured.