Explore unusual festival symbols and their meanings in this medium-difficulty crossword for kids aged 8-12. Learn about masks, animal totems, lanterns, and more!
Enigmatic Rites and Eccentric Revelries is a hard crossword puzzle with 20 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Enigmatic Rites and Eccentric Revelries
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Ancient Celtic practice with enigmatic rites during solstice festivals
- 2. Celtic festival marking liminal times and spectral boundaries
- 4. French term for 'saucer,' here a cryptic hint to flying festival object
- 5. Iconic instrument sometimes parodied in mock executions during celebrations
- 8. One who reaps the fruits of the land in autumnal ceremonies
- 10. French-derived term evoking feasts before fasting begins
- 11. Ritual offering often ancient and solemn yet paradoxical in celebration
- 12. Elaborate public display with ceremonial splendor and antiquated roots
- 17. Illuminations released in ritual processions upwards to the heavens
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- 3. Man-made figures burned or paraded to symbolize communal catharsis
- 6. Process preserving the dead, re-enacted symbolically in some festivals
- 7. Alchemical term representing transformation, echoed in fiery festivals
- 9. Period of hedonistic festivity preceding austerity, often masked
- 13. Masked ball or festival involving disguise and social masquerading
- 14. Craft associated with ritual preparation of horses in peculiar festivals
- 15. French male dancer, often main performer in ritualistic festival dances
- 16. Belief system venerating symbolic objects in tribal festive rites
- 18. East Asian mid-autumn festival honoring moon and harvest
- 19. Ancient Christian processions invoking blessings on fields and crops
- 20. Traditional performer embodying subversion and social inversion
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