ritual
"Ritual forms an indispensable part of the experiential basis for our cultural metaphorical systems. There can be no culture without ritual." (#60 3908)
"Similarly, there can be no coherent view of the self without personal ritual (typically of the casual and spontaneously emerging sort)." (#60 3910)
real-world objects standing for entities in the world as defined by the conceptual system of the religion
"Religious rituals are typically metaphorical kinds of activities, which usually involve metonymies—real-world objects standing for entities in the world as defined by the conceptual system of the religion." (#60 3895)