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Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 2023) of three 12th-13th century Hoysala temples at Belur, Halebidu, and Somanathapura, Karnataka, India, known for stellate soapstone temples, hyper-real sculpture, and artists' signatures.
Sacred Games (novel)
Sacred Games is Vikram Chandra's 2006 crime novel about Mumbai inspector Sartaj Singh and gangster Ganesh Gaitonde. Roughly 900 pages, written over nine years, an NBCC fiction finalist, and the basis of Netflix's first Indian original series in 2018.
Sacred Games (TV series)
Sacred Games, Netflix's first Indian original series (2018-2019), a Hindi crime thriller adapted from Vikram Chandra's 2006 novel, starring Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, two seasons, Emmy-nominated, ended without a third season.
Sacred geometry
Sacred geometry is the attribution of religious or cosmological meaning to geometric figures, ratios, and construction methods, spanning Hindu yantra worship, Islamic patterns, and Gothic cathedrals.
Sacred Harp
Sacred Harp, or fasola singing, is a loud, a cappella four-part American hymn-singing tradition from shape-note tunebooks, centered on The Sacred Harp (1844) by B. F. White and E. J. King, sung in a hollow square with fa-sol-la-mi notation.
Sacred Heart
The Sacred Heart, also called the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, is a Catholic devotion to the Heart of Christ as the symbol of his love.
Sacred Heart Cathedral School, Thorndon
Sacred Heart Cathedral School (Te Kura Ahurewa o te Ngākau Tapu) is a state-integrated Catholic full primary school in Thorndon, Wellington, for Years 1–8, roll about 228, EQI 375, preference-based enrolment, adjoining Sacred Heart Cathedral.
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo
Sacred Heart Cathedral (Katedrala Srca Isusova), Sarajevo Cathedral: Neo-Gothic Catholic cathedral by Josip Vancaš, built 1884-1887, modeled on Notre-Dame de Dijon; largest in Bosnia and Herzegovina, seat of the Archbishop of Vrhbosna.
Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University (SHU), private Roman Catholic university in Fairfield, Connecticut, founded 1963 by Bishop Walter W. Curtis; over 10,000 students, five colleges and four schools, NECHE-accredited, Dingle Ireland campus, NCAA Division I Pioneers.
Sacred Hope
Sacred Hope (Portuguese: Sagrada Esperança) is a collection of 51 anticolonial poems written by Agostinho Neto between the mid-1940s and 1960, published in Lisbon in 1974; Neto became Angola's first president.
Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region
Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region (「神宿る島」宗像・沖ノ島と関連遺産群) is a 2017 UNESCO serial World Heritage Site of eight components in Fukuoka, Japan, centered on Okinoshima, a sacred island 60 km off Kyushu with 4th–9th century ritual sites and about 80,000 National Treasure votive objects.
Sacred language
A sacred language, also called a liturgical language or lingua sacra, is a language a religious community sets apart for worship, scripture, or ritual, above everyday speech.
Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests
The Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Kenya's coast, inscribed in 2008, made up of ten sacred forests of the Mijikenda people.
sacred months
The sacred months (الأشهر الحرم) were four months of the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar, Dhu al-Qa'da, Dhu al-Hijja, Muharram, and Rajab, during which fighting and raiding were forbidden, a truce covering a third of the year.
Sacred prostitution
Sacred prostitution, also called temple or cult prostitution, is a hypothesized ancient practice of sex performed for a deity, whose existence is now widely disputed.
Sacred Reich
Sacred Reich (Phoenix, Arizona thrash metal band, formed 1985): second-wave thrash act with political lyrics led by Phil Rind and Wiley Arnett; albums Ignorance, The American Way, Independent, Heal, and 2019's Awakening on Metal Blade.
Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range
Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range (紀伊山地の霊場と参詣道), a 2004 UNESCO serial site in Mie, Nara, and Wakayama, Japan: Yoshino-Omine, Kumano Sanzan, and Koyasan joined by 307 km of pilgrimage routes including the Kumano Kodo.
Sacred Water: Narratives and Pictures
Sacred Water: Narratives and Pictures is a 1993 book by Leslie Marmon Silko combining prose poems with her own photographs of water in the Southwest.
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy (Sacri Monti del Piemonte e della Lombardia): nine chapel complexes on hills in northern Italy, begun in 1480 at Varallo as substitutes for Holy Land pilgrimage; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice, also known as blood sacrifice or ritual sacrifice, is a ritual act of offering something valued to establish relations between humans and the divine.
Sacrifice (2020 film)
Sacrifice (金刚川, Jin Gang Chuan) is a 2020 Chinese Korean War drama by Guan Hu, Frant Gwo, and Lu Yang about CPV soldiers defending a pontoon bridge during the Battle of Kumsong; it earned $53 million in three days.
Sacrifice (2025 film)
Sacrifice (2025 film) is Romain Gavras's English-language satirical dark comedy, co-written with Will Arbery, starring Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy. A doomsday cult hijacks a Greek charity gala to sacrifice three people to a volcano; premiered at TIFF 2025, streamed on Netflix October 16, 2026, with weak critical scores (35% RT, Metascore 48).
Sacrifice of Youth (青春祭)
Sacrifice of Youth (青春祭, Sacrificed Youth) is a 1985 Chinese drama directed by Zhang Nuanxin, adapted from Zhang Manling's novella There Is a Beautiful Place, about a Han sent-down youth awakening among the Dai in Yunnan; not the 2015 TV series.
Sacrificial anode
A sacrificial anode is a piece of more electrochemically active metal, such as magnesium, zinc, or aluminum, connected to a structure so it corrodes instead, protecting pipelines and ship hulls without external power.
Sacrificial ink bioprinting
Sacrificial ink bioprinting is a biofabrication method in which a temporary sacrificial ink is printed into a cell-laden matrix and removed, leaving perfusable channels that serve as engineered vasculature.
Sacristy
A sacristy, or preparation room, is a room in a church where vestments, sacred vessels, and liturgical books are kept and clergy vest for services.
Sacro Speco
Sacro Speco (Holy Cave), the Benedictine monastery of San Benedetto at Subiaco, Italy, built into Monte Taleo around the cave where St Benedict lived as a hermit three years around 500; frescoed 9th–17th centuries, founded as a monastery by Innocent III in 1203.
Sacrobosco (lunar crater)
Sacrobosco, a 97.67 km heavily eroded pre-Nectarian lunar crater at 23.76 S, 16.60 E in the southern highlands, containing floor craters Sacrobosco A, B, and C and no central peak.
Sacrococcygeal pilonidal abscess
Sacrococcygeal pilonidal abscess (ICD-11 EG63.2), the acute infected form of pilonidal disease at the natal cleft; treated by lateral incision and drainage, then definitive surgery; recurrence up to 42% after drainage alone.
Sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus
A sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus is a chronic, hair-containing tract in the skin at the top of the natal cleft, above the sacrum, mainly affecting young adults.