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NativeTech: Beads and Beadwork - Discusses the role of beads and beadwork in ceremonies and rites of passage.
Klingon Imperial Forums - Message boards covering aspects of the Klingon Empire, including language, culture, rituals, traditions, ceremonies, costuming, weaponry, and art.
Magical Weddings - Humanist weddings with emphasis on values and creating a meaningful ceremony above the need for ritual or tradition.
Ghost Dance - History of the Ghost Dance Movement among the Plains Indians.
Wounded Knee and the Ghost Dance - The Ghost Dance Movement and the massacre of 1890.
Imaging and Imagining the Ghost Dance - Re-examination of James Mooney's illustrated account of the Ghost Dance of 1890.
Herbs and Smudge Supplies - Links to various sources.
Miracle: White Buffalo of Prophecies - Reprinted newspaper article about the birth of the prophecied white buffalo calf and American Indian reaction to her.
White Buffalo Calf Woman Brings the First Pipe - The prophecy of Ptesanwin as told by Joseph Chasing Horse.
Miracle's Website - Webpage dedicated to white buffalo in South Dakota, considered miraculous by Lakota people. Overview of some prophecies supporting this belief.

Wikipedia Articles

Cantonese wedding - Most Cantonese wedding rituals follow the main Chinese wedding traditions. Although some rituals are unique to the cantonese people.
Persian wedding - Persian wedding tradition, despite its local and regional variations, like many other rituals in Persia goes back to the ancient Zoroastrian tradition. Though the concepts and theory of the marriage have changed drastically by Islamic traditions, the actual ceremonies have remained more or less the same as they were originally in the ancient Zoroastrian culture.
List of basic topics of religion - Religion is the adherence to codified beliefs and rituals that (generally) involve a faith in a spiritual nature and a study of inherited ancestral traditions, knowledge and wisdom related to understanding human life.
Māori mythology - Māori mythology and Māori traditions are the two major categories into which the legends of the Māori of New Zealand may usefully be divided. The rituals, beliefs, and the world view of Māori society were ultimately based on an elaborate mythology that had been inherited from a Polynesian homeland and adapted and developed in the new setting (Biggs 1966:448).
Lex Antiqua Valachorum - Lex Antiqua Valachorum, meaning "Ancient Wallachian Law", also called Jus Valahicum/Valachorum ("the Wallachian Right"), represents a collection of the Romanian pre-statal judicial system, with afferent juridical rituals, customs and traditions, kept and transmitted from generation to generation.