No hay comunidad sin ritos. Nunca la ha habido. Entre aullidos simiescos se realizaban ya ofrendas funerarias. Los homínidos empezaron a enterrar a los muertos antes incluso de preocuparse en construir casas para los vivos. El pensamiento simbólico compartido aspira a dar sentido a la vida, cohesionar al grupo, a espantar el miedo al vacío inventando un orden social dentro del caos natural. Es un orden que no procede de la ley sino de la […]
There can be no a community without rites. There has never existed. Amid apelike howls, our ancestors performed already funerary offerings. Before worrying about building houses for the living, they already buried their dead. Shared symbolic thinking gives meaning to life, aiming to unite the people, to frighten the fear of emptiness by inventing a social order within natural chaos. It is an order that does not come from the law but from magic, it does not […]
