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Trickster Jumps Sides: Disruption and the Anatomy of Culture

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Ritual Reversals in Western Tradition

Ritual clowns engage in these types of reversed actions. Ritualized trickery happened on the road to eleusis, when initiates were neither at home nor at their destination. In northwestern mexico, the mayo indian rituals featured copacobom ritual clowns that appear during lent. The old wisdom would say that this debasing of the god is a necessary part of his periodic renewal.

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