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a society's way of insisting that a moment was real by performing it on purpose
word rootlikely from Latin caerimonia, meaning sacredness or awe
brain effectrituals reduce anxiety even when known to be arbitrary
universal traitevery recorded human culture marks death with ceremony
tea versionJapanese chado can take years to formally master
royal costa coronation orb and scepter still anchor real monarchies