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CALENDARS (purposes of ritual (powerful social construct (Hill -…

- - - - critical growing season
- - - - Samhain
        
        beginning of dark part of the year, post-harvest
- - - - Eliade - re-enacting identifies with sacred time
      - sacred time makes ordinary time possible
      - it is the 'eternal presence of the mythical event that makes possible the profane duration of historical events'
    - - ritual concentrates this
- - - - commitment and adherence to values
    - - deconstruction of status quo
      - revitalisation & reconstruction
    - - most religio-cultural communities
  - - - anti-clerical/blasphemous?
      - taking part in carnival time
      - 15th century - uneasy
    - - reversal of normal order
      - embodiment of oppositional categories
      - moment of flux resolved through ritual
- - - - make cultural feasts seem natural
- - - - celebration of triumph over chaos
      - evident throughout human history