Hi Dbronzeh, and welcome to the JCF forums!On 2006-10-12 22:32, dbronzeh wrote:
maybe someone already said this: a rite is the act of living a myth. It is the most intensive form of story telling.
I personally believe myth came first because it is based on history. The purpose of ritual is to initiate a person through psycological transformation.
You're certainly very close to Joe Campbell. He was one of those who used to explain, that ritual is an "enactment of myth".
Personally I love this explanation, but, at the same time, tend to disagree slightly:
To me, in the early "mythologically based" societies, myth and ritual used to build a unity: Experience, life, story, invention and interpretation was all the same. Nothing before, nothing beyond.
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