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==Ritual actions== | ==Ritual actions== | ||
Due to their symbolic nature, there are hardly any limits to the kind of actions that may be incorporated into a ritual. | Due to their symbolic nature, there are hardly any limits to the kind of actions that may be incorporated into a ritual. The rites of past and present societies have typically involved special gestures and words, recitation of fixed texts, performance of special music, songs or dances, processions, manipulation of certain objects, use of special dresses, consumption of special food, drink, or drugs, and much more. Religious rituals have also included animal sacrifice, human sacrifice, and ritual suicide. Ritual lamentation — song performed with weeping — in many societies was regarded as required to ritually carry the departed soul to a safe afterlife (Tolbert 1990a, 1990b; Wilce 2006). | ||
[[Image:Urarina shaman B Dean.jpg|thumb|right|Urarina | [[Image:Urarina shaman B Dean.jpg|thumb|right|Urarina shaman, 1988]] | ||
==Religious rituals== | ==Religious rituals== | ||