Their function pertains to celebratory rituals: commemorative, initiatory and propitiatory; first in the field of religion, then later even secular, which were held on special occasions, either single or recurrent.
A propitiatory prayer ends the work.
The rite is both symbolic and propitiatory.
There were three articles at issue in the disputation (on the liturgical language, church authority over forms of worship, and scriptural warrant for propitiatory masses).
But we who are living will bless thee, and will pray, and offer unto thee propitiatory prayers and sacrifices for their souls.
The dance was propitiatory, never secular, and performed only by males.
They therefore served cassava (manioc) bread as well as beverages and tobacco to their zemis as propitiatory offerings.
In more mythical stories, it was also said that the flies that brought pestilence died immediately upon propitiatory sacrifices of this bird.
