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How do you dispose of non-biodegradeable ritual items?
(Disposal is different from placing a charged object, such as a talisman or a curse bottle. In that case, the object's placement is related to its function.)
This is all bubbling up from "Mama Lola" (highly recommended) and its descriptions of "one-use" objects, such as said water bottle, that must be left where their "charge" has been dispersed. They cannot be reused for fear of crossing wires, as it were. As such, there are many sites in Haiti (as discussed in the book), including cemeteries, that are filled with the detritus of ritual practices.
These beliefs are not oriented towards non-biodegradeable objects. But such objects are frequently used in contemporary rituals. This intersection may necessitate the creation of purification rites, in which such detritus can be removed. Or it could rarify the nature of ritual objects, so that they must be of some degradeable quality (such as the raw clay used in many Hindi rites).
Thoughts! What of your personal practice inre: disposability? And what are the metaphysics involved? |
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