Rituals

Rituals represent and pass on the values and orders on which a community is based.

The symbol (Greek: symbolon) originally referred to the sign of recognition between guest-friends (tessera bospitalis).

One guest-friend broke a clay tablet in two, kept one half for himself and gave the other half to another as a sign of guest-friendship.

<p>The unique process by which man makes himself at home in the world is constituted by the fact that every act of recognition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Recognition means knowing something as that with which we are already acquainted.</p> Signup and view all the answers