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• Unusual ritual >Carpe Diem rituals> go into natural places and do what comes natural
• Bear rituals....bears would be cut up and given to the bear. Had to kill the thing that was provided for you.
• Shirley Jackson, The lottery (sacrificial ritual)
• Delphic oracle > calasso ch. 6 > three leg stool
• Sacred rituals > agricultural prosperity
• Deus ex machina- "God out of the machine" problem suddenly solved with contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object
• Ritual- set of actions, performed mainly for symbolic value
• when you make decisions, you are really a puppet on strings...
• myth and ritual are components of religious practice
• precision and repetition are part of rituals
• Calasso pg. 39, 163-164
• Jeffery Eugenides- middle sex, the marriage plot
• When you purify/go to confession and rid your sins, you put your sins on something else.
•  cere in ceremony is talking about Demeter the goddess of harvest...when you eat cereal in the morning you are doing a morning ritual.
•  sac in sacred means to make sacred
• homeopothy > effigy> representation of a person ex. voo doo dolls
• God priapus > God of procreation > origin of maple > rejoicing return of summer
• pg. 260 Calasso, The initiation