Me: “Good morning, dear! How are you this morning?”
Friend: “Good morning, darling, I am good. You said you wanted to go out for coffee this morning with me and discuss something. What’s up?”
Me: “I have been doing a lot of pondering on a documentary that I watched last night. It really got me thinking about rituals that cultures have in other countries as well as ones we have in America.”
Friend: “Oh, really? I never gave much thought to that subject, but it sounds like a good topic to discuss on this rainy day. What was the name of the documentary that you watched?”
Me: “It is called, The Story of the Weeping Camel. The setting is in the Gobi Desert, with the focus on a group of Mongolian Nomads. The climate in this country appeared to …show more content…
With that wool the grandmother braided a harness like rope which they put onto the first born calf. I believe this was again a kind of ritual calling for good health and asking for a blessing on the newborn calf. It appeared to be a consecration act of the firstborn camel. After they had attached the harness for the calf, one of the elders declared that they dressed up the firstborn so that its humps would grow straight and its feet would grow strong. After that declaration was made, more milk was sprinkled in the air in order for those wishes to come true.”
Friend: “They defiantly have different rituals than we have here in the United States.”
Me: “Exactly! Every culture has interesting rituals that are unique to their culture. It occurred to me while watching the documentary that a lot of rituals will take place with food or drink involved.”
Friend: “That’s very observant! I can think of quite a few rituals we practices as Americans that center around food. Most holidays and celebrations we observe with include …show more content…
Did you think of any rituals us as Americans practice?”
Me: “Just as the Mongolians celebrated or had rituals around certain happening such as the birth of a camel; Americans also have rituals around certain time periods. For instance, infant and adult baptism is both practiced at certain time periods in a person’s life. They are both associated with a religious believe of an individual or groups of people.”
Friend: “That’s true! Another ritual I thought of would be celebrating Christmas and holidays on a certain date every year. And as we said before, most of these holiday rituals are celebrated around food and times of remembering things that have happened in the past.”
Me: “There is also the practice of saying grace before a meal that some people observe. That is a way of saying thanks to God for the blessing of food.”
Friend: “There are so many more rituals that we haven’t named. It makes me wonder what the Mongolian people would think about some of our
Friend: “Good morning, darling, I am good. You said you wanted to go out for coffee this morning with me and discuss something. What’s up?”
Me: “I have been doing a lot of pondering on a documentary that I watched last night. It really got me thinking about rituals that cultures have in other countries as well as ones we have in America.”
Friend: “Oh, really? I never gave much thought to that subject, but it sounds like a good topic to discuss on this rainy day. What was the name of the documentary that you watched?”
Me: “It is called, The Story of the Weeping Camel. The setting is in the Gobi Desert, with the focus on a group of Mongolian Nomads. The climate in this country appeared to …show more content…
With that wool the grandmother braided a harness like rope which they put onto the first born calf. I believe this was again a kind of ritual calling for good health and asking for a blessing on the newborn calf. It appeared to be a consecration act of the firstborn camel. After they had attached the harness for the calf, one of the elders declared that they dressed up the firstborn so that its humps would grow straight and its feet would grow strong. After that declaration was made, more milk was sprinkled in the air in order for those wishes to come true.”
Friend: “They defiantly have different rituals than we have here in the United States.”
Me: “Exactly! Every culture has interesting rituals that are unique to their culture. It occurred to me while watching the documentary that a lot of rituals will take place with food or drink involved.”
Friend: “That’s very observant! I can think of quite a few rituals we practices as Americans that center around food. Most holidays and celebrations we observe with include …show more content…
Did you think of any rituals us as Americans practice?”
Me: “Just as the Mongolians celebrated or had rituals around certain happening such as the birth of a camel; Americans also have rituals around certain time periods. For instance, infant and adult baptism is both practiced at certain time periods in a person’s life. They are both associated with a religious believe of an individual or groups of people.”
Friend: “That’s true! Another ritual I thought of would be celebrating Christmas and holidays on a certain date every year. And as we said before, most of these holiday rituals are celebrated around food and times of remembering things that have happened in the past.”
Me: “There is also the practice of saying grace before a meal that some people observe. That is a way of saying thanks to God for the blessing of food.”
Friend: “There are so many more rituals that we haven’t named. It makes me wonder what the Mongolian people would think about some of our