Purification Rituals
After contact with polluting forces or during life transitions, purification rituals restore spiritual cleanliness and social standing.
After contact with polluting forces or during life transitions, purification rituals restore spiritual cleanliness and social standing.
What was polluted is made clean. Through ritual, balance returns. Step forward renewed.
African Purification
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- What African wisdom says about forgiveness
Purification marks the end of a state rather than the end of a feeling. A rite like this gives the injured person a dated boundary after which they are no longer the person this was done to — a function no purely internal forgiveness performs.