Ritual: Time And Body

Question 1

Liminality

Answer 1

The state of social in betweenness that ritual helps address and resolve…. according to the genes most rituals serve the purpose of separation rebirth and reincorporation

Question 2

Solstices vs equinoxes

Answer 2

Solstice - astronomical event that occurs twice a year as the sun reaches its highest or lowest excursion relative to the Celestial equator on the Celestial sphere connected to the four seasons

Equinoxes occurs twice a year around 20 of March and the 22nd September is a day when the daytime and night or approximately equal duration

Question 3

Nature of the Mayan calendar

Answer 3

The haas - is 365 days - 18 months of 20 day plus 5 no month day

Secular and sacred calendar come not re alignment every 52 years

Question 4

Types of bodily ritual

Answer 4

Body piercing body painting tattoo party miking incision circumcision clothing fasting sadomasochism - boundaries of pleasure and pain

Question 5

Types of ritual

Answer 5

Temporal - time 
Spatial - space
Body - physical transformation 
Fertility - crop and people 
Divination - rituals for the future 
Healing - curing sickness 
Taboos - ritual negative prohibitions