Ritual

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Offspring

Commemorative RevisionAnniversary Rewriter, Anamnestes palimpsestusby symbiosisTide of DaysRing of Feasts, Fastocyclus communisby colonizationSimultaneous RememberingTide of Recall, Synmnemon calendarisby colonization

Food web

• feeds its output → the intake of Memory
  Ritual gives a time that comes back and passages marked in public; Memory feeds on what is repeated, strongly felt or given meaning. Ritual's product is Memory's best food.
• pollinated the dispersal of Memory → its intake
  Memory spreads into stories, archives, monuments and rites, and Ritual needs the memory of what was done before. Memory has already pollinated Ritual.
• homology its dispersal resembles the decay of Memory
  Ritual lives on in gestures whose reasons are forgotten; Memory's other half is forgetting. The form outlives what it remembered.
• friction its kernel rubs against the boundary of Memory
  Ritual repeats actions in a fixed form; Memory says a trace that never altered would be an archive, not a memory. One lives by not changing, the other by changing.
• feeds the output of Equinox → its intake
  Equinox gives a fixed point from which seasons and feasts are counted; Ritual needs a time set apart. The sky supplies the rite's time.
• feeds its output → the intake of Memory
  Ritual gives a time that comes back; Memory feeds on what is repeated and given meaning. Each return of the rite is a recall.
• friction its boundary rubs against the decay of Equinox
  The equinox drifts against the stars, while a rite holds to its fixed form; over centuries the feast and the season part.

Kin

same kind in Roget Geomancy, Miracle, Possession, Trance

same kind in Wilkins Commemorative Revision

same kind in WordNet Geomancy, Mimesis, Pointillism, Knowing Trust

same kind in Llull Chiaroscuro, Faith, Geomancy, Innocence, Lullaby, Music, Patience, Pointillism, Syllable, Symbol, Foresilence, Tide of Days, Subtractive Phenomenology

same phylum Entelechy, Memory, Music, Nostalgia, Prophecy, River, Threshold, Wind, Tongue Horizon, Afterlistening

same dominant organ Chimera, Dream, Fire, Love, Lullaby, Metamorphosis, Music, Presence, Resonance, Storm, Symbol, Winter, Rushmaker, Shared Breath, Self-Ending Order, Gazeroot (second reading), Commemorative Revision, The Swing Door, Foresilence, Simultaneous Remembering, Poetry, Subtractive Phenomenology

Genome

• repetition also in Echolalia, Erosion, Lullaby
• form also in Commemorative Revision, Entelechy, Metamorphosis, Petrification, Poetry
• threshold also in Equinox, Rushmaker, Storm, Tongue Horizon
• community also in Faith
• commitment also in Faith

Echoes

• a wedding
• a graduation
• the handshake
• a New Year's countdown