Ritual dances

have been lucky enough to receive. The difficulty in explaining this ritual to someone who hasn’t experienced it lies in that strong Runakuna bond that is formed between the land and…

meanings surrounding space and time differ from one culture to the next. That geographical location, historical instances, and how individuals are include or exclude highlight the varied cultural meanings that exists within space. In addition, how rituals like rites of passage and liminal space are symbolic constructions surrounding different concepts and experiences of time. Space, and the meaning cultures give to it, is not static. Every culture defines space differently. To westerners it…

affected by them. When someone close to a woman is killed, several of her knuckles on her fingers will be cut off with a stone ax. As Victor Turner wrote, symbols can be objects, activities, relationships, events, gestures and spatial unites in a ritual situation (Turner 2013, 273). The action of cutting off part of their fingers is symbolic of the loss that a woman has experienced. It serves to communicate their loss to the rest of their community. This symbolic action is one of ways in which…

jumping rituals and a group of men doing a Balinese monkey chant, while in Japan, we see a group of Butoh dancers. I would argue that most of this learning could be considered observational learning. These rituals seem to be specific to culture and an individual most likely grows up watching others perform them. Through observation, the individual can gain the knowledge of how to perform the desired behavior when needed. Furthermore, there seems to be a reason or a purpose behind each ritual.…

The Relationship between Ritual and the Construction of Space in Mapungubwe. The following events take place whilst I am a minor in the K2 culture, once we had relocated to Mapungubwe. The essay encapsulates what I see around me and how I feel about it, the types of spaces created, and the alteration in space to suggest the move from profane to sacred. My emotions correspond and add value to the exploration of ideas and themes that I have investigated, namely: The background and meaning of…

Religion and relationships between Gods and mortals in Archaic Greece is often a central focus to scholars studying the period. This is due to the popularity surrounding early Greek poetry through the extraordinary images of iconic Greek Gods and Goddesses, and how these figures are dominant in the lives of Greek people during the Archaic period. In terms of early Greek poetry, Homer’s Odyssey and the Iliad, along with Hesiod’s Theogony tend to be the most popular and useful in studying both the…

Music exists in people’s daily life a long time ago and it is used in multiple areas and purposes. In Saint Augustine’s book Confessions, he talked about Catholic religion and mentioned the magical effects of music in the rites of the Catholic Church. Similarly, in David P. McAllester’s book Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World’s peoples, the author also discussed the positive effects of ceremony music through the story of a Navajo ceremonial practitioner, Frank Mitchell.…

through different rituals. For instance, royal family hired “professional women mourners.” Women were also responsible in preparing the funerary meals (SOURCE 160). Additionally, they performed household food rituals and rituals related to reproductive success and health care (SOURCE 168). These different rituals performed by women were not the “popular” tasks conducted in a religious environment. However, “with their knowledge and control [of]...religious procedures, [they] were ritual experts…

Ana-Luic legend carries from many centuries ago, from a tribe of mischievous group of small people who lived hidden in the forests and valleys of the islands, before the first western settlers arrived. These arcane bloodlines of Ana-Lu, which means the Owl Gods, roamed the old forests, and happen to be about 3 ½ to 5 ½ feet tall, though considered short by many, what they lacked in height and strength they utilized in intelligence, agility and stamina. Like other cultures they enjoyed dancing…

referred to as in the general scientific community as well as the world at large, in their own language they call themselves, “Wixáritari” or in English, “The People” (); therefore, these terms can be used interchangeably. The Wixáritari have an annual ritual in which they trek some 300 miles from their…