What is a ritual?
A repetition of warship of something or someone or a repetition to gain something mentally or spiritually.

What are examples of rituals?
Sunday mass, bar mitzvahs, movie festivals, The Olympics, most sporting events and large gatherings for fundraising or me to we.

How are rituals related to nature?
They often have to do with months or seasons or even the lunar calendar and its effect on people. It


Why is repetition critical to the enacting of a ritual?
Because you need people to remember certain parts of the ritual and there is nothing that can be committed to memory better than something repeated over and over and over and over and over and over.

List event that are repetitive in your live or the world around you.
Going to school, getting ready for events or just going out, meal times or the news starting at the same time every night.

What acting would you repeat on a regular basis?
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Do rituals have symbolic value? Explain the value of symbolism in ritual.
Yes most often they do. In Sunday mass or most religious services there is one item or person who represents a greater power or being. IE. The cross, the torah, or the flying spaghetti monster. http://www.venganza.org/

How are rituals associated with theatre?
The first “plays”, if you can call them that, were in ancient Greece and it was a reenactment of the birth or death of one of their gods. What they would do was dress up in masks and gowns and kill a goat in front of people and it would be an entertaining thing to go see. Now people still dress up in masks and gown but there is less goat blood spilled.

How are rituals related to memory?
Rituals are like learning a song for performance or going to church, whatever it is that you do during the ritual usually gets drilled into your head so you remember it. It does have a brainwashing aspect to it but that is often overlooked for the purpose of the ritual.