Myth is the story people tell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ritual is the enforcement of this myth story in so to make it real<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Myth and ritual are actually also two central components of religious practice, but it is also used to illustrate how it works to create illusions and manipulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to use myth and ritual which are commonly united as parts of religion – the exact relationship between them has been a matter of controversy among scholars, who now believe that myth and ritual share common paradigms, but not that one developed from the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The relationship between myth and ritual could be comparable to the relationship between science and technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pioneering anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor is the classic exponent of this view. He saw myth as an attempt to explain the world: for him, myth was a sort of proto-science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ritual is secondary: just as technology is an application of science, so ritual is an application of myth, an attempt to produce certain effects, given the supposed nature of the world: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Tylor, myth functions to explain the world as an end in itself. Ritual applies that explanation to control the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many 19th-century anthropologists supported the opposite position: that myth and religious doctrine result from ritual. This is known as the “primacy of ritual” hypothesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In The Golden Bough (1890; 1906\u20131915), Frazer famously argues that man progresses from belief in magic (and rituals based on magic), through belief in religion, to science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His argument is as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Man starts out with a reflexive belief in a natural law. He thinks he can influence nature by correctly applying this law: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In magic man depends on his own strength to meet the difficulties and dangers that beset him on every side. He believes in a certain established order of nature on which he can surely count, and which he can manipulate for his own ends.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the natural law man imagines (magic) does not work. When he sees that his pretended natural law is false, man gives up the idea of a knowable natural law and “throws himself humbly on the mercy of certain great invisible beings behind the veil of nature (gods), to whom he now ascribes all those far-reaching powers which he once arrogated to himself.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, when man loses his belief in magic, he justifies his formerly magical rituals by saying that they reenact myths or honour mythical beings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Frazer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Myth changes while custom remains constant; men continue to do what their fathers did before them, though the reasons on which their fathers acted have been long forgotten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The history of religion is a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, to find a sound theory for an absurd practice.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For what I want to say here, in the same fashion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Myth (story) becomes ritual, ritual (bed time story telling) becomes habit (belief), habit becomes your life, and you subconsciously believe the myth (stories), you see it as the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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