User:Ada/SI20

✴ week 1

sage tea ritual

-kicking off special issue XX

-introductions, conversations on rituals and games

-shared about my horse tunnel game where i would pretend to be a horse when driving trough tunnels, not sure why i picked that one.

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read and annotated with boyana the bare facts of rituals (johnathan z. smith), talked about the interesting parts of the text.

- rituals as exercises in the strategy of choice, grace and nature, divine and human

-ancient men making rituals of bear hunts, creating false divine realities so far from the human truth. ritual as a perfect hunt where all variables are controlled. the hunter knows that this is not reality but performing the ritual makes the hunt's full significance to be perceived, a significance which the rules express but are powerless to effectuate.