The Importance of Disposal of Hair and Nails in Religious Rituals

Lincoln: A lot of religious rituals are, in a way, supposed to be a re enactment of a foundational myth. He says that when you dispose of hair and nail clippings in the correct way, you are furthering the life of the world's vegetation. The sacrifice here is your own body. And if proper disposal serves to create the cosmos, then improper disposal can de create it, or, to put it negatively, can serve to create chaos out of cosmos.