SRS 1112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Snow Goose, Sweat Lodge

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1112
• Professor: Theodore Debruyn

Document Summary

Religions are systems of discourses, practices, communities, and institutions that draw on human and suprahuman powers to provide adherents access to ultimate meaning. " (jakobsh, p. 13) How rituals work: space and time, rituals take place in a space and time that is set apart from regular" life, we knew we had the right spot when all involved said yes, this feels right. Over the years, and sometimes during ceremonies, black bears, deer, coyote, owls, eagles, hawks, ravens, blue herons, snow geese, and swans have come to visit us. The elder usually begins thinking of the ceremony 7 days before the ceremony itself, and starts paying attention to all of his or her surroundings, events that are unfolding around them, feelings, and dreams. The ceremony i lead and those i have taught starts when you show up on the sacred grounds. ". This makes ritual a very powerful form of self-communication.