To the ancients, wind and sun, sea and forest grove seemed to be informed by inscrutable spirits to whom, in awe and propitiation, they gave human personality and shape.
Brahmin priests performed propitiation ceremonies to the goddess of earth and the god of destruction.
Meanwhile in the Papal State some 50,000 Italians were present at St Peter's and in the adjoining piazza, when Pope Pius XI celebrated a mass of "expiation, propitiation and .