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Re: The power of ritual, rituals of power
Jul 31, 2003, 10:53
Yes, but there must have been symbolism - a component structure.

The job of a causeway is to provide a link, a causeway lined with stones or totems becomes a symbolic one - the totems representing the ancestors perhaps.

For a symbolic causeway to work it must have things to link, the most powerful things will have symbolised power and religion.

Could it not be, that the burial mounds were the sybolism of power and the vehicle for the transfer of power? that the ritual involved visiting your dead leader during his transition to god-state and thus having their worldly power passed on to you? After that period of transfer, a procession was required - to show all who was in charge and to have that fact acknoweldged by the religious leaders.

I quite like this idea of barrows = power.
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