Melinda - The Rituals of Death & Resurrection (Frazer 802)

"every new beginning, comes from some others beginning's end"

The words I picked from Frazer today and my comments on it, may not be exactly what Frazer was trying to tell us about death and resurrection, but when I read this is fit well into the last few days of classes on the end being a beginning to an end and so on, and so on.

"For the extraction of his soul would naturally be supposed to kill the youth or at least to throw him into a death-like trance, which the savage hardly distinguishes from death.  His recovery from the violent shock which it had received, or, more probably, to the infusion into him a fresh life drawn from the totem".

What I hear and see (in general) from these words is exactly what we have been talking about in class.

The end (Armageddon) being the extraction of the soul or a death-like trance, death and violent shock is the reaction to those experiencing the end and then fresh new life drawn from the totem represents the new world, earth or whatever is being brought into life.

In a less visual way, these word also represent the continuing end of the recurring beginning.

sleep, the end as we wake
class, the end when time is up
a meal, the end when we are finished
birthday, the end until the next one
holiday, again, then end until the next one
movies allways (mostly in the past) end with "The End"
brushing teeth,
taking a shower,
dancing,
drinking,
having coffee,
running,
working out,
skiing,
hiking,
reading,
homework,

I could go on and on....not a single thing we do at any given time doesn't have a beginning and end.

Finishing this Blog - THE END

(but the beginning of more homework)

I challenge anyone to find one thing that does not end and begin again.