Carl Munck views many ancient monuments as codes that are meant to represent their latitude and longitude on the globe. He sees the Nazca Lines as a primitive map. HE used a complex and a series of illogical numbers which are associated with the Nazca line he calls Manos. According to Munck, Manos is trying to describe its exact location on the globe. In order for his theory to work, Munck changed the Greenwich Prime Meridian to the Pyramids of Giza, as he claims that the ancient Nazca people would have no knowledge whatsoever, of the Greenwich Prime, but he claims that they would have definitely known about the Giza Pyramids.…
Lelwica describes “cool rituals” are following national trends the media portrays as being healthy or the “norm”. Due to how people want to fit in, we are what we thing about. Due to the media always being in our faces, we are constantly being shaped and directed to believe by what has the most outreach. Our decisions are constantly being influenced by what we see and believe. I believe media is the result of the people since we pay and encourage what we like, and therefore encourages popular and innovative ideologies.…
It is important to establish the view of the Zande, the background behind their belief and how they were formulated. The Zande live in north central Africa with a concentration in Sudan of nearly half a million people with sources indicating a total Zande population to be nearly two million, the Zande have settled as craft workers in and around the lower Nile-Congo River gap.(Everyculture.com, 2016) As a distinct tribe in the heart of Africa, the Zande have encountered a fair share of adjustments to neighbours. Like numerous different encounters of incorporations, the Zande have seen trouble in framing collective set of ideals amongst its people.…
The sacrifices were in all of the Mayan territories for a while. The supreme sacrifice was human life. They said the victims for the sacrifice would become Gods. This took place during elaborate ceremonies. Sacrificial scenes have been depicted Mayan ceramics, sculptures, and murals.…
There are many myths about the start of the Inca Empire. It is known that the Incas started as a single family tribe around 1200 AD. One religion says that Viracocha created the world and people. When these people started fighting with each other, Viracocha turned them to stone. Later, he returned, created the sun and moon, recreated humans, and spread them across the earth.…
Culture helps shape every human being, whether society realizes it or not. For the Nacirema culture it means self mutilation, sadism, and masochistic propensities. The Nacirema tribe has a soul focus is on the human body it’s natural tendency to deteriorate. The Nacirema people spend most days involved in ritual activities in hope to preclude disease, weakness, and unappealing characteristics. Their soul focus on the body has lead theses people into barbaric actions.…
Of the theories mentioned in the passage, I think the explanation that Nazca Lines were made by planes landing. People think aliens were the passengers of the plane, but I disagree. I think the instigation that aliens were passengers in the landers is a lie, since its principal proponent envisioned his ideas in a highly profitable best-selling book. I am convinced more of this explanation than the other one about the suns making the Nazca Lines. That theory must be impossible because the earth spins around while orbiting around the sun, which is still, because the earth is moving constantly the sun cannot make lines on the exact spot to make a design because the lines would not be in the same spot, or in a bunch.…
In the creation of the fifth world, I found it interesting how Nanautzin, the once unassuming devoted himself to his duty. He did not choose to do sacrifice himself for the creation of the new son (he was voluntold really), yet he devoted himself to the cause fully, giving the best he could and willingly stepping into the fire without fear. Truly, it is amazing to see such devotion to duty; it is no wonder he is renowned.…
Nacirema is the native tribe that their culture is still vague. This tribe spends most of the time in a day on ritual practicing. Nacirema people believe that the human body is ugly ,weak and ill, therefore, They believe the ceremony and ritual are needed to prevent those sufferings . These native people believe in the magic and have shrines in their houses. There are 3 types of magical practitioners.…
Rites of passage can be a large part of many cultures and vary all over the world. The rituals followed mark important times in an individual’s life in various different ways which they transcend from one status to another. The first culture’s ritual I’ve chosen to study is African tribal coming of age, being as rites of passage are extremely critical to them. Each rite of passage helps by placing someone in their title in the community and setting their social and or spiritual position. The second culture I chose to study is the coming of age ceremony of the Native American.…
The Ghost Dance is a Native American religion that was instituted in the nineteenth century by a member of the Paiute tribe , Wovoka (Bowker , The Columbia Encyclopedia). The Ghost Dance Religion itself was a ritual for a peaceful end of the Western expansion and the Native Americans to get their land back . The actual dance ritual only lasted five days (each night of each day except for on the last day it was from the night until morning) (The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions). Along with the dances that lasted five days there were trances and shaking that were to be repeated every six weeks (Bowker , The Columbia Encyclopedia).…
The Chumash people were located on the southern Coast of California. This area is fairly cool most of the year but gets very hot during the summer time (Sutton, 2012, p182). The Chumash were a larger group compared to others in the area with a population estimated at 20,000 people (Sutton, 2012, p181). The imprint of this large population can be seen in the archeological sites of their settlements. It has been observed that the dome-shaped houses were placed close to each other (Gamble, 1995, p56).…
This book review is going to be looking the work of Catherine Bell in her book ‘Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice’. In this book, Bell looks at people’s curiosity with rituals and the pre-existing notions of rituals. Bell hashes out the argument on connections that make a discourse on ritual to compel cultural activity studies. Bell acknowledges that there hasn’t really been any analysis of the term ritual that has presented forward one definitive definition, that shows its role in the way people think around religion and culture. Bell across her book argues her thesis that ritual doesn’t control individuals or societies with no consensus.…
In the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the setting takes place in a magical world in London, England where the main characters attend a school named Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the film numerous characters and moments embody the theories Malory Nye point out in his book Religion: The Basics. Essentially, rituals and beliefs are prevalent in this film and the use of the theories can analyze such things. Examining Harry Potter using Arnold Van Gennep’s rites of passage, Edmund Leach’s theory of rituals and repetition, Claude Levi-Strauss’ ritualistic symbolism, and Malcolm Ruel’s definition of beliefs being “weak” and “strong” to convey that the aspect of the character’s lives basically comes down to the forming…
The article Body Ritual among the Nacirema by Horace Miner is about culture and rituals. Culture is defined as “a system of ideas, values, beliefs, knowledge, norms, customs, and technology shared by almost everyone in a particular society” (Basirico, Cashion, and Eshleman 99). In other words, it’s a way of life in society or a specific geographical area. According to the author, Nacirema is between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui, and Tarahumare of Mexico, which offer the readers some insight of the true meaning of the text.…