sacred
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“They feel they have a sacred obligation to manage their forest, not for commercial logging per se. So I think it’s really a meeting of science and the sacred.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The gossamer thread holding the sacred feminine maelstrom together?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
At least 752 people are dead in Nepal, authorities there said, while 2,500 people are missing, many of them pilgrims who were visiting lakes in the area that Hindus and Buddhists consider sacred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
On Sunday Nepal's disaster authority said 589 foreigners, including trekkers and Hindu pilgrims to Tibet's sacred Mount Kailash, were unaccounted for.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
She found in the outer court a beautiful lad in priestly attire intent on purifying the sacred place with water from a golden vessel, singing as he worked a hymn of praise to the god.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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