...the interminable and fruitless road, at the entrance to which ritual itself struggles in vain. Thus, while myth resolutely turns away from the continuous...mythic thought makes the task forever impossible. Hence the characteristic mixture of stubbornness and ineffectiveness which explains the desperate,...

...order, from the nature to culture. The logic of the ritual10 is, ho,wever, opposite to that of the myth. While myth resolutely turns away from the continuous...reality, it strives to get back to the continuous. (Lévi-Strauss, 1981: 679) In other words ritual represents collective regression, a striving to get...

...nonverbal, myth as a matter of content, ritual as a matter of form. He saw the mythical process as one that "turns away from the continuous to segment and break...means of distinctions, contrasts and oppositions." The ritual process, however, attempts to take "the discrete units" created by mythical thinking and...

...ritual as a matter of form. He saw the mythical process as one that "tums away from the continnous to segment and break down the world by means of distinctions, contrasts and oppositions." The ritual process, however, attempts to take "the discrete units" created by mythical thinking and...

...repetition (of actions, utterancesl. These are the two aspects in which ritual profoundly differs from myth: [W]hile myth resolutely turns away from the continuous...the initial break with lived experience effected by the mythic thought makes the task forever impossible. (NM 679l It is as if myth and ritual fulfilled...

...the interminable and fruitless road, at the entrance to which ritual itself struggles in vain. Thus, while myth resolutely turns away from the continuous...conceptualization of reality, it strives to get back into the continuous, although the initial break with lived experience effected by mythic thought makes...