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jonmor
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Re: For Ceremonial purposes?
Aug 18, 2013, 11:48
Evergreen Dazed wrote:

I'm interested - how would you describe a site like the Avebury circle(s) to the general public? If the answer to that is along the lines of 'We don't know what this was used for', that is essentially what ceremony/ritual is saying anyway. I don't think the general public is being misled by literature saying 'likely ritual function', because, to be honest, there are plenty of pointers toward its use being just that!


Ceremony describes a specific set of ideas. A church can be used largely for ceremony whereas a school (for example) is not largely ceremonial. By using the word "ceremony", or even "ritual", the writer is imposing their own imagination onto the past.
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