Rite

• Rite contains Offerings.

  Many rites include a gift. The gift does not make every rite a sacrifice.

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• Rite contains Initiation.

  Initiation is one species of rite: a change of status with a sequence of acts.

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• Calendar is associated with Rite.

  Festivals are often hung on a calendar. The rite is local even when the clock looks astronomical.

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• Death is associated with Rite.

  Funerary rites treat death as an ending that still requires work. The work is local: weighing, wake, or cremation.

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• Veil is associated with Rite.

  Covering a face or a shrine is a local etiquette of rites. The cloth is not a metaphor of cosmic mystery until a later writer says so.

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• White is associated with Rite.

  Linen and pale garments appear in more than one rite of seeing or burying. Each dress code is local.

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Vedic tradition

• Fire is associated with Rite.

  Vedic offering and later household customs use fire to make a thing fit for a god or a table. Purification is a local job of flame, not a global essence.

  from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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Māori tradition · Aotearoa

• Matariki is used in Rite.

  Matariki is observed with gathering and year-rites. Matamua describes a living knowledge, not a reconstructed paganism.

  from Rangi Matamua · Matariki: The Star of the Year, 2017

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Egyptian religion

• Isis is used in Rite.

  Herodotus describes a principal Egyptian festival of Isis at Busiris where the people lament after sacrifice. A Greek traveler’s report of Isis as the dedicatory focus of a named rite, not the Demeter interpretatio edge and not a Book of the Dead spell.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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