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“Forms of rituals, such as manners, make possible both beautiful behaviour among humans and a beautiful, gentle treatment of things. In a ritual context, things are not consumed or used up but used. Thus, they can also become old”
“Rituals are characterized by repetition. Repetition differs from routine in its capacity to create intensity”
“Symbolic
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To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.
We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transform being-in-the-world into a being-at-home. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable. They even make it accessible, like a house. They structure time, furnish it. In his novel
... See more“What is a ritual?” said the little prince. “It is also something really forgotten,” said the fox. “It is what makes one day different from the other days, one hour, from the other hours.
Language and
Animacy: Braiding sweet grass, process to become native -> animism / regionalism (Cascadia)