Rituals
Ceremonies and rituals
From days long gone
To sun and moon and stars.
Performed between the stones
As the Green Man
Peered from the foliage.
Ceremonies of fertility
Fecundity and survival;
Praise for the turning
Of the seasons,
The wheel of life.
Rituals of love
Rituals for crops and hunts,
For births and deaths.
Rituals for the unknown.
Superstitions
That if these rituals
Were not performed
The world would crease
And dissolve back
To whence it had come.
Opher 1.8.2018
We humans do love our rituals.
What would we do without them?
I love rituals as much as anyone else. But having a ritual, with all its pomp and ceremony, lavish equipment, wondrous attire, great pronouncements and even sacrifices, does not make it real.
The world did not end when those ancient shamen stopped performing their rituals. Neither will we will enter a new world because religious rituals have been performed.