So me and some friends are preparing a big birthday party for a friend.
You would imagine balloons, pop music and presents, right?
WRONG!
We will be doing something very different!
We are celebrating a religious ceremony, which in an anthropological kind of way, makes me really excited and curious!
I can't write more about it now, because it will be kept a secret!!!
In a recent trip to the muslim world, I often observed the rituals of washing before prayer and it fascinated me! (in an anthropological kind of way)
The Halal food (for muslims), The Kashrut (kosher food for jews), were laws to keep first and foremost the best hygiene conditions possible.
Since pork meat is a kind of meat that, unless well preserved makes people easily ill, the eating laws for the religions in warm countries stated that pork should be banished.
With the same train of thought, cleanliness was also achieved by instituting the laws of cleaning before prayer etc.
Isn't it genius?
At that time, I think it was the best self-preservation rule they could have come up with.
The next best invention of humanity was probably SOAP and not the wheel.
Ok. I may be slightly inaccurate with the time lines, tradition origins, cultures and facts, but in a drop, this is what actually happened...
The story of the head scarf is equally interesting! Since at the time, the ruling behavior was immorality, the religion ordered men and women to cover their bodies.
the thing, was women had to mask and hide the shapes of their bodies, so the immorality would stop!
pretty interesting, since I would not consider this a self-preserving measure, but a question of moral!
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