One City’s Secret to Happiness: The Annual Burning of a 50-Foot Effigy
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One City’s Secret to Happiness: The Annual Burning of a 50-Foot Effigy
Nature is full of patterns and we humans love finding them, creating them, repeating them. That’s at the core of language, math, music, and even ritual, which is the repetition of words or actions deemed worthy of representing something bigger than ourselves. Some rituals are very private, some are very public. Some are so commonplace we don’t even
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Meade: In Zambia, there’s a ritual about a tooth. When someone in the village is sick or disturbed, they imagine it is caused by an ancestor’s tooth that has gotten inside that person. That person’s sickness affects everybody in the village because they are connected with one another. So they make a ritual to get this tooth, this sickness, out of
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