Motif
ritual specialist inaugurates harvest
ritual_specialist_inaugurates_harvest
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family, within the sub-family Harvest Actions, Taboos, and Responses. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 1770-1846 confidence: medium
Among the Alfoers of Celebes, the priest sows the first rice-seed, plucks the first ripe rice, roasts and grinds it, and gives some to each household.
Priests, a Curumbar, an astrologer-selected sheaf-cutter, a Libia, and a king each perform acts that open or authorize the first use of the crop.
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