示: showing up at the temple

示is an altar, and looks like it; per Henshall, the lines coming down left and right are drops of blood or sacrificial wine.  It doesn't mean altar as a standalone, but means show, meaning that what comes from the sacrifice will show the will of the gods.

Different religions

宗, sect:                  Each sect has an altar, but under a different roof.
奈, Nara:                The city of Nara is famous for its temples -- they're a big 大きい deal.
斎, worship/study: The holy text 文on the altar, bounded by walls, make the temple
                                 a place for worship and study.
崇, worship/lofty:  The Samaritans used to put altars for worship in lofty places in the mountains.

The forbidden-forest temple

禁, forbidden:        This altar is in the forbidding/forbidden forest.
襟, collar/neck:      It's forbidden to wear a collar on your neck in the forbidden temple
                                  -- wear a robe.

The festival in the hills

祭, festival:            Offer meat 肉 on the altar for the festival.
際, occasion:         The festival in the hills is quite an occasion.
察, guess:              When we offer meat to the gods, it's done under a roof of secrecy
                                 -- you can only guess how the gods will respond.
擦, scratch/score:  Use your hand to scratch the altar so we can guess what it's made of.

How not to behave in church

票, ballot/ticket:     Put your hat on the altar -- it's your ticket out of here (because you'll
                                  get kicked out).  OK, I vote we don't do that.
標, signpost/stamp:Put up that ticket or ballot on a tree as a signpost for others:
                                 don't try the "hat on the altar" thing.
漂, float/drift:         Throw your ballot on the water and it will drift away.  Maybe
                                 people will forget what you did.
款, friendship:       The samurai, feeling a lack of friendship in life, offers himself
                               on the altar:  take me!  So now he is friend to the gods.  Better than the
                               thing with the hat.

There is also the kanji 隷, but since we haven't done 隶, I will defer that until tomorrow.

宗奈斎崇禁襟祭際察擦票標漂款