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Post by robinherne on May 1, 2010 9:06:51 GMT -1
Roman, Egyptian and Greek polytheism was quite structured and proscriptive in their rituals and festivities. Obviously we know very little about how British and Irish tribes conducted ceremony, but I wonder if they too followed quite strict formats?
Modern paganism tends to favour make-it-up-as-you-go-along rituals, defended with vociferous eulogising of the virtues of intuition, spontaneity, intimacy with the divine etc.
Does anyone have any views as to the rigidity/flexibility of ancient ceremony, and how modern ritual "should" be?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2010 5:41:31 GMT -1
I was going to ask a similar question myself. As you say, there is little known about rituals performed by British and Irish tribes, but I'm inclined to think they would probably be more basic than a lot of modern day Pagan rituals. I can't help but associate the pentacle and the elements it represents with modern day Paganism so I use Land, Sea and Sky in my rituals. Additionally, I'm not one for casting circles/creating sacred space because I'm of the opinion that all space is sacred. I was very interested in Lee's Imbolc ritual on Dun Brython and wondered if anyone else would be willing to share their ritual practice or point me in the direction of some examples?
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Post by potia on Sept 27, 2010 7:11:24 GMT -1
I think there would have probably been a range of approaches from the formal and probably rigid ceremonies for larger gatherings (lets face it if you have a lot of people at something you need some sort of formaility) to the smaller more intimate household rites which might have had more flexibility to them.
As to how we do it now I think patterns in what is done can be important but I like a certain amount of flexibility too. My personal rituals tend to be very simple but do follow patterns but the group rituals I am involved with are more formal and scripted (as much as anything because they are open rituals and we get new folks along all the time).
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