ceremonial blade
Symbolic cutting implement
A ceremonial blade is a knife, sword, or dagger used in rituals rather than combat or utility.
Such blades appear in religious ceremonies, military traditions, fraternal initiations, and state functions.
They may be ornate or symbolic, often too dull or fragile for practical cutting: The priest raised the ceremonial blade over the altar.
Freemasons use ceremonial blades in their rites.
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- daggerShort pointed stabbing blade
- blood sacrificeRitual killing for deities
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- human sacrificeRitual offering of life
obsidian · altar · sacred · sacred object · high priest · priest · offering · sheath · ornate · carved · hilt · cutting edge · temple · bloodletting · jeweled · ancient · ivory · gilded
- ancient artifactsjade mask, Viking sword, bronze sculptures, antiquities, Roman coin
ceremonial bladecombat knife
Military close-quarters blade
hunting knife · utility knife · service weapon · fighting knife · trench knife
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