Ritual Decalogue

Rituals are a part of culture that can either signal initiation into a society or a changing event or to celebrate an important event. Rituals are things that can be created to honor a particular event or to cap of a ceremony. Rituals are interesting to folklorist because they have so much information within them to provide information. Typically, rituals are habitual and have symbols or meaning that relates to a culture. Rituals also contain a set of virtues that are important to a society or…

A sacrifice and prayer, such as what Chryses did in the text was the most common way to appease or communicate to the gods for humans. In another Greek myth, Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to appease the goddess Artemis before he sets sail for Troy. It was common for ancient religions to involve sacrifices, such as Judaism and the religion of the Mesopotamians. The Greeks believed that the smell of the burning meat would appease and please the gods, while the Israelites believed it…

Worship and ritual can be some of the most effective ways for someone to experience God. In each of these religions, worship is used not only as a means to communicate with God personally, but also as a cultural representation of the faith-believing body itself. Worship is said to “sustain(s) tradition and serve(s) as a medium in which evolving self-understandings of community can be expressed” (JCM 157). Though these monotheistic religions are unified under this common objective, rituals and…

The Rite Of Passage For “Just Be Yourself” The rite of passage that is most significant to me is not doing everything that you possibly can to be perfect. A good story that focuses on that specific one is “Just Be Yourself”. In this story, the narrator’s younger self is trying her best to fit in and be like everyone else, but while she is doing that she is slowly losing herself. But, her future self comes back to talk about it with her. One of the quotes are, “I mean honestly, you joined the…

The spiritual dance that Wovoka stressed upon would be performed with hundreds of people in attendance. The people would gather in a large circle in a space that was cleared of all grass and obstructions on the reservation. Sheets would then be placed around them. A freshly cut sapling would be placed in the center of the circle to le praised as the prayer tree. The sapling would be decorated with a multicolored cloth or occasionally a miniature American lag. Wovoka, dressed in a white man’s…

For them, it was a purification ritual held on February 15, in which a goat was sacrificed and a scourge made of its hide. Thong-clad men ran through the city, whacking people with bits of goat hide. Those who were struck considered themselves fortunate indeed. This is one of the few Roman…

Take a moment and look back on a memory that you would rather forget. Maybe you are picturing a relationship that ended badly, or perhaps the death of a family member. Maybe you are remembering a traumatic incident in your past, or maybe you are a war veteran trying not to relive the horrors of war. Regardless of the memory you have recalled, it is likely that, at some point in your life, you have come across one of these painful memories and wished there was a way to erase them from your mind.…

Prosecutors. 1. The text discusses the prosecutor’s office at work. From the tape, cite some examples of work issues related in the text. The prosecution office at work was a method used by the prosecution team to highlight certain photos and children’s accounts about alleged sexual abuse at the McMartin preschool to gather more evidence to convince the jury that defendant Ray Buckey was a sexual deviant, and that his family was guilty of similar actions. There are several examples or…

Elizabeth F. Loftus was born in Los Angeles, California on October 16, 1944. While studying to become a math teacher she discovered psychology. She received a BA in math and psychology. While at Stanford became interested in long term memory. She was an expert researcher on the malleability and reliability of repressed memories. Loftus’s work has made a huge contribution to psychology and opened a unique and controversial aspect of psychology and memory. She began her research with…

The Indictment is movie that follows the prosecution of the Buckey and MacMartin family. The average family was being accused and tried for child abuse, child molestation, and even satanic rituals. The Buckey’s and MacMartin own a preschool in California where these allegations are said to be derived from. The first time these allegations came to light was when a mother of a child from the preschool, Judy Johnson, said her son was touched by Ray Buckey and also his father. From there,…