It's a fascinating subject. I do think there are aspects to "dark/sad" heroquests/ritual that are part of the weave of a community. LC
roko_joko wrote:
>
> I heard a lecture about a modern ceremony that I thought might
> interest this
> list. It was "Welcome Back to Life: Regeneration and Traumatic Memory in a
> Multiracial Lynching Reenactment" by Mark Auslander of Brandeis University
> and you can listen to it at
> http://www.buworldofideas.org/shows/2009/03/508/
> <http://www.buworldofideas.org/shows/2009/03/508/>
>
> For four years people in Georgia USA have been publicly reenacting the
> 1946
> Moores Ford Bridge lynchings. The original event is Googleable. To me it's
> especially interesting as (in a broad sense) a "we lost" ceremony, which
> seems to have been a subject of inquiry in Glorantha discussions:
> "What kind
> of magic do you get from a heroquest you're supposed to lose?" Also with
> respect to: when you have an enemy in a ceremony, who plays the role,
> what's
> it like, and what does the community get out of it. Here are some of the
> reasons people gave for doing the reenactments. They're from notes I took
> and might not be quoted perfectly.
> * we want to remember it
> * there are ghosts left over and we want to [interact with them somehow]
> * we want to know what it was like, for both sides
> * we want to be doing something ourselves. We want to to tell this
> truth so
> that we will have a future.
> * something is wrong with us and we need to work it out
> * healing
> * we can't really know what happened; we have to keep on trying to
> find it out
>
>
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