Priest Girl

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If you want me to change something or make something for you, just ask directly on Instagram @boris3dstudio https://www.instagram.com/boris3dstudio/ A spiritual leader is a religious authority authorized to perform sacred rituals of a faith, especially as an intermediary between humans and one or more deities. They also have the power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and appeasement of, a deity or deities. Their position is the priesthood, a term which also applies to such individuals collectively. According to the trifunctional hypothesis of prehistoric Proto-Indo-European society, spiritual leaders have existed since ancient times and in simple societies, most likely as a result of agricultural surplus and consequent social stratification. The need to read sacred texts and keep temple or church records helped foster literacy in many early societies. Spiritual leaders exist in many faiths today, such as all or some branches of Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Shinto, and Hinduism. They are generally regarded as having privileged contact with the deity or deities of the faith to which they subscribe, often interpreting the meaning of events and performing the rituals of the faith. There is no common definition of the duties of priesthood between faiths; but generally it includes mediating the relationship between one's congregation, worshippers, and other members of the religious body, and its deity or deities, and administering religious rituals and rites. These often include blessing worshipers with prayers of joy at marriages, after a birth, and at consecrations, teaching the wisdom and dogma of the faith at any regular worship service, and mediating and easing the experience of grief and death at funerals – maintaining a spiritual connection to the afterlife in faiths where such a concept exists. Administering religious building grounds and office affairs and papers, including any religious library or collection of sacred texts, is also commonly a responsibility – for example, the modern term for clerical duties in a secular office refers originally to the duties of a cleric. The question of which faiths have a "spiritual leader" depends on how the titles of leaders are used or translated into English. In some cases, leaders are more like those that other believers will often turn to for advice on spiritual matters, and less of a "person authorized to perform the sacred rituals." For example, clergy in Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy are spiritual leaders, but in Protestant Christianity they are typically minister and pastor. The terms spiritual leader and spiritual mediator are sufficiently generic that they may be used in an anthropological sense to describe the religious mediators of an unknown or otherwise unspecified faith. In many faiths, being a spiritual leader is a full-time position, ruling out any other career. Many Christian priests and pastors choose or are mandated to dedicate themselves to their churches and receive their living directly from their churches. In other cases it is a part-time role. For example, in the early history of Iceland the chieftains were titled goði, a word meaning "spiritual leader". As seen in the saga of Hrafnkell Freysgoði, however, being a spiritual leader consisted merely of offering periodic sacrifices to the Norse gods and goddesses; it was not a full-time role, nor did it involve ordination. In some faiths, being a spiritual leader is by human election or human choice. In Judaism the priesthood is inherited in familial lines. In a theocracy, a society is governed by its spiritual leaders.