How to embody your fictional culture through its transition ceremonies.

Rites of PassageWriting in French in 1909, the European comparative sociologist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957) delineated in Les rites de passage (published in English in 1960) a structure for transformative ritual practices he considered universal and common to all cultures.

Rites of Passage: Coming-of-age rituals from around the world.

Everyone has experienced some “Rites of Passage;” we have all gone through some sort of change or growth in life, whether it was puberty or maybe in athletic competition. There is something ceremonial about growing …

In Hinduism, the 16 major sanskaras (shodasha sanskaras) are divided into Pre-natal, childhood, education, marriage, & death sanskaras. Although these shodasha sanskaras are of great significance, in modern times, only four of these sanskaras, namely jatakarma, upanayana, vivaha, and antyeshti, are commonly followed.

William Golding: Rites of passage. Published by Faber & Faber, 1980. Jacket illustration by Cathie Felstead. First edition.

Speculation on ancestral lifespan is fun and potentially illuminating, but I think examining living, albeit imperfect, examples of modern hunter-gatherers

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