Ритуалы: зашифрованная сила тысячелетий

From time immemorial, rituals have been closely connected with the most important stages of a person’s life path. Ancient people compared human life not to a journey in a straight line (to the final goal or to the top), but to a constant “dying” and “birth”. A person “disappeared” at one level and “reappeared” at another, in a new capacity. So, for example, the ceremony of consecrating a young man to knight took place. The young man was hit on the shoulder with the flat side of the sword, thereby symbolizing a real fatal blow and a new birth. Tens of thousands of years later, the sacred actions continue to live on! In the fast-paced modern world, we carefully give honorable place to rituals. What are rituals and what is their power and meaning? Where did the rituals common in our modern society (wedding, rituals of transition into the new year) come from and what did they carry? The author of the book, Elena Viktorovna Shubina, a psychologist and journalist, describes all the rites of passage known to the world, explaining their deep sacred meaning. Only by learning the wisdom and worldview of our ancestors can we take a step towards understanding the present: its value and meaning.