31.   These rituals were performed only by powerful officials, so the cong became a status symbol.

32.   They have also been allowed to perform religious rituals at the site.

33.   They performed the ritual over and over.

34.   To perform the ritual, Hopi must visit golden-eagle nests specific to their clans.

35.   Two hundred years ago, voodoo drums echoed from Congo Square along the New Orleans riverfront, and priests and priestesses performed eerie rituals in the bayous outside town.

36.   Unless rituals are performed at the proper locations, they have little or no efficacy.

37.   Visitors file before it, leaving mementos and coins, while a priest performs rituals and says prayers for the ancestors who passed through this castle.

38.   We see their mouths, their hands, their shadowed silhouettes as they perform rituals as mundane as cutting vegetables and as holy as braiding bread to make challah.

39.   When I was a boy, my father would perform a ritual.

40.   You perform rituals with it.