I think maybe the use of ritual symbolism is a step in dissolving a
traditional *activity* similar to, The "You are what you eat, so eat tiger
hearts" idea.
Often an enemies heart or liver would be eaten to absorb the enemies
fierceness...a high compliment and show of respect.
It has been said that Custers ears were cut off so he'd be reminded to
listen in the afterlife. [ Wouldn't he need them to hear? ]
I suppose today they'd drive hearing aids in with a hammer and they didn't
think of Bison horns back then.
Some societies still eat small portions of their dead relatives as a way
to assimilate and preserve their memory. That's not "cannibalism" per sey
as the intent is not food oriented.
There may be a connection to a similar activity with the Jews and their
Christian offshoots.... lost in time and prehistory but seen reflected as
the wafer and goblet of wine tradition of the Eucharist.
The actual activity may have also occurred with a completely different
society and only the symbolic ritual transferred or copied...that is, I'm
not saying that any descendents of Jews ever actually consumed any large or
small portion their dead. [Nor am I passing any judgement on those who did
or still do.]
Smoke is both ritually and actually considered to be a connection to the
heavenly beingness by various societies both past and present. Eastern
societies sometimes burn favorite articles that belonged to loved ones or
even send them [symbolic] money that way.
The Jews did have a number of symbolic rituals such as attaching diseases
to pigs and driving them out of town.
Scape-goating is almost universal.
Before Moses came along, burning sacrifice was the common thing to do.
[maybe after Moses too ]
Jesus made many concessions to traditions he disagreed with and he
disagreed with many.
One was the tradition of only favored guests drinking wine at a wedding
party. He let everyone drink wine, [a typical "Jesus" thing that would fit
the philosophy perfectly ] hence, "Turning water into wine"
Some say he could buck the system that way because it was his wedding
party. It was still odd enough to become widely noted and gossiped about.
Jesus was just typically odd, for that time ... and much misunderstood.
The Red Cross may have been expecting a lot of seriously injured
survivors on 9/11.
It took a while to realize there weren't any.
..or a war.
At any rate, they chose preparedness...and they're always begging for
blood for any reason they can think of to promote the giving of it, no
matter what might be going on.
No big suprise.
ode
At 03:17 PM 7/8/2006 -0700, you wrote:
Hi Ode,
Really enjoy your posts. :) This particular one triggered the
remembrance of something I heard in the evening of 9/11. Red Cross was
all over the place televising requests for blood donations. Featured was
mrs bush as one of the reps. She said something repeatedly that almost
floored me. . The Red Cross via ms bush was telling people to donate vast
amounts of blood, would it be badly needed. What was said was that it
could be frozen. Immediately called a doctor friend to verify that some
new blood process was not on the market. My thoughts was what the heck are
they gonna do with all that blood? Why is it needed. There
was supposedly no shortage at the time...my Brother, a Lieutenant worked
the site as a paramedic and at the local hospitals who received the wounded. .
I'm just wonder en Ode. Do you think that the darker side of mankind has
become enlightened over the eons? That the rituals including those of
blood use of yore days gone by have been completely wiped
from patterned memory and consciousness. Symbols..some folks use em,
mostly the ones who don't have the real thing....others use the real thing
whenever available.
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