Makna dan Penghargaan Perempuan Nuaulu dalam Inisiasi Ritual Pinamou di Pulau Seram

This article aims to analyze the appreciation of women in the Pinamou ritual as an initiation ritual for women. The method used is a qualitative research method, with data acquisition through observation, interviews, audio-visual material, and literature studies. The study found in Pinamou ritual has an appreciation for the women who see in mythology about women. Then, it shows the figure of women as the successors of the life of a community and also as a source of blessing for both personal and community living in the community. The Pinamou ritual also has an affirmation of the initiation ritual that must carry out to reach the customary order in the community and become a place to look back at every meaning in the ritual performed.

Experiencing Becoming: The Initiation Process into Bektashi Tradition

Initiation into the Bektashi Sufi order is formalized as the initiate is led through a complex ritual form replete with symbols of death and rebirth, sacrifice, and integration that are enacted as the ritual is performed and in various ways experienced by the initiate. Once having entered and become a part of the order, then, the initiate encounters other cultural forms that reflect back upon the initiation ritual, such as poems that recount and provide commentary on it, contributing to his or her understanding of the experience of initiation as they too are performed in a communal context, and showing that integration into the order is an ongoing process. This paper analyzes the initiation ritual form with respect to the relationship between the cultural symbols presented in it and the experience it is intended to have on the initiate as he or she interacts with them. It further analyzes a particular poem that recounts the initiation ritual while adding impressions of the experiences evoked in it—experiences which meld with the initiate’s own remembered experiences. Finally, it shows how these experiences are reinforced through the communal interaction that transpires as such poems are sung to music in a ritual context.

De orfiske mudderbade: Esoteriske renhedsforestillinger i oldtidens Grækenland

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The symbolic distinction between purity and pollution was prevalent in Ancient Greece, not least among the Orphic. As a religious reform-movement of the Axial Age they authored a discourse which was polemically directed against the dominant Homeric tradition. This shows, for instance, in their eschatological reconception of the relationships between humans and gods, life and death. As part of an initiation-ritual, they offered purifications, including self-defilement with blood and mud, with the purpose of releasing the initiate from the cycle of births (reincarnation). Allegedly, the initiation entailed a ritual staging of the realm of the dead – an imitatio mortis – in which the uninitiated were doomed to a hapless fate whereas the initiated were introduced to a divine and carefree afterlife. DANSK RESUMÉ: Den symbolske distinktion mellem renhed og urenhed spillede en afgørende rolle i det antikke Hellas, ikke mindst for orfikerne. De fremstår i den forbindelse som en typisk aksetidsbevægelse, der forholder sig polemisk til den herskende tradition. Således tilskrev de forholdet mellem mennesker og guder, liv og død, en eskatologisk betydning, der stod i modsætning til det homeriske univers. De indførte også renselsesriter med blod og mudder som del af et initiationsritual, hvis formål var at guddommeliggøre initianden gennem en frigørelse fra fødslernes kredsløb. Her tyder alt på, at ritualet bestod en rituel iscenesættelse af dødsriget – imitatio mortis – der skelnede mellem uindviede, som gik en trøstesløs skæbne i møde, og indviede, som kunne se frem til et sorgløst efterliv.

Masoński kod w twórczości Władimira Nabokowa. Próba interpretacji powieści „Zaproszenie na egzekucję” w kluczu symboliki masońskiej

This article is an attempt to interpet a work by Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading, with the most important determinants of Masonic culture. There are few studies that discuss this outstanding prose writer in terms of freemasonry and the author of this article discusses this issue with particular attention to the symbolism of the Masonic initiation ritual.

Memaknai Praktik Tradisi Ritual Masyarakat Muslim Sumenep

THIS -- paper seeks to reveal the meaning of tradition in the Muslim’s ritual in Sumenep Madura which is understood as a local or popular ritual, associated with the determination of the calendar in Islam. This ritual, when expressed and understood in practice, is always based on the popularization of calendar names in local-based Islam with certain insights and meanings. With this deductive-inductive explorative approach, this paper explain to three popular ritual praxis of the Sumenep Madurese. Firstly, the practice of the death ritual that was intended as a repentance to God for self and “al-marhum”, ties the brotherhood, and effective for Islamic preaching. Secondly, the ritual practice of “Peret Kandung” is a ritual of the first pregnancy for husband and wife entering the seventh month which is meant as a symbol of purification, so that the born child will survive and truly become sholeh child who boast of parents. Third, “sonat ritual” is a continuation of initiation ritual in Sumenep only for boys which is meant as a ritual as well as da'wah media for islamization.

Gnostic Altered States

Initiatory structure of Gnostic initiation; therapeutic goals of Gnostic initiation; ritual practices and positive cognitive changes. Engages the movie, "Altered States."