Rituals of the Nacirema

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The Horrid Needle

The Nacirema believe that hurting people is thrilling and enjoyable.

The Nacirema people have lots of different beliefs and rituals that they follow. These people live northwest of New Zealand. Their main belief is that hurting people is thrilling and enjoyable. The Nacirema people conduct rituals and ceremonies if someone wins the brutal fight of death. The Nacirema people hit their opponent with a sharp and deadly weapon; they all have protective garments. People watch these deadly fights in a massive coliseum, where you can buy different types of substances that make you vomit your guts out, but people still consume it. I was lucky to talk to some of the Nacirema people about this activity that they take part in. They said that it is a very enjoyable and fun activity to do. When one person wins they get lots of valuables and a detailed sculpture made of gold.

My review of the life of the Nacirema people is that they like hurting other people because it is enjoyable and thrilling. It's a wonder the Nacirema people have survived this long with all these weird rituals.

~ Joe M.

The Hallucinatory Rock

The Nacirema people are a culture that lies northwest of Brazil. The Nacirema feel a strong connection to objects, and hold them responsible for their well-being. The Nacirema live such terrible lives that they feel the need to conduct dangerous rituals to feel sane.

The Nacirema partake in a ritual that they are taught at a young age, that requires them to tap pebbles with ancient markings in a specific order, that they believe will result in them being happier. If they fail to complete this ritual daily, it is said that they will become saddened and alone. I was able to observe this ritual through quiet observation and what I found still puzzles me quite a bit.

The ritual I will describe is pronounced by the locals as “Semag Oediv”. They start this ritual by going to their designated hallucination rock. Almost every family in this culture has a hallucination rock, and if they don't, they are shut out by their local tribe. To activate Semag Oediv, they take out their Draobyek, which is made of gathered rocks on a plate with special markings. They then proceed to poke these pebbles until they are drawn in by the hallucination rock. This is when the ritual really begins.

They proceed to violently hit the pebbles, stare intensely at the hallucination rock, and chant loudly. This ritual induces fear in that if you look away from the hallucination rock, the ritual will end. They chant even louder, but it appears they always end the ritual by angering the rock. When the hallucination rock decides to end Semag Oediv, the celebrant is enraged. The specific celebrant that I observed jumped out of their ritual area and violently harassed their ritual plank that held their hallucination rock. When questioned about this experience, many described that this is an extremely necessary ritual to perform frequently, because it generates well-being.

Overall, the Nacirema people are quite peculiar. They conduct hallucination-inducing rituals to lighten their moods, but always conclude with anger. If I've learned anything throughout this experience, it is that the Nacirema people are quite aggressive, and don't know how to make themselves happy.

~ Abigail P.

Mysterious Letters

The Nacirema fear the day they have to give up their valuables.

The Nacirema are located in this territory southwest of Greenland. The Nacirema do this routine in this special room, which has a magic flat surface on stilts, and they have these ink sticks where they draw with this ancient language on a white sheet. They bargain with this organization. No Nacirema knows what they do with the currency but they just give it to them. Most Nacirema carry around this piece of paper with the Nacirema leaders on them to remind them of this torture. Some Nacirema have another Nacirema do it for them so they don’t have to go through this pain. All Nacirema dread the day of this abuse.

There are some Nacirema who evade this torture and then they get taken away by these scary people wearing blue outfits. The scary blue costume wearing people take them to this punishment box with bars with other people who did some very bad things. The people who evade are never seen again for years.

I wonder why the Nacirema have paid this weird and mysterious organization for so long. I also wonder what this special currency is.

~ Ryan M.

Fear of Disloyalty

The Nacirema, the newest finding of civilization, lives south of Antartica. The Nacirema live in fear of their tribe not considering them loyal enough. Every morning the Nacirema perform some sort of ritual to their country. They stand with their hand over their heart and start chanting the ancient ritual.

The Nacirema started performing this ancient ritual hundreds of years ago. Every morning before they leave for their daily activities they perform this ancient, powerful ritual, in the fear that their country would not consider them loyal enough. Therefore only royal citizens of this land perform the ceremony. In the process of performing this ritual they put their hand over their heart, determined to perform the pledge perfectly as they sway side to side with their feet.

They say the lines of how they should respect the country and how the nation was created (somehow). They all seem to do it because of the fear that they might not be loyal enough to their country. A Nacirema resident states that “we all live in fear that we are not seen as worthy of our country.” We still know little of this ancient and remarkable ritual but we know for sure that it is a powerful ceremony with a lot of emotion.

The Nacirema have been performing this ritual for hundreds of years. They have managed to perform this ritual under the fear of their country not considering them loyal enough. Some people are not afraid and think that the country is not worth being loyal to, therefore they don't perform the pledge. A lot of hard work and practice went into this ritual. How do they live under the fear of this ritual for 140 years?

~ Lucas M.

Fat Intruder

The Nacirema people, who live south of the Canadian people, have many weird interests, and beliefs. One of these believes that their kids are poor and need things. They believe the only way to make this happen is to celebrate the birth of some of their gods.

When I interviewed the Nacirema they explained that one day late in the Nacirema’’s year a fat man intruded the Nacirema’s houses. What is different is they give kids lots of presents when the moon is high in the sky. The next morning the Nacirema kids saw gifts that the intruder gave and screamed in joy, opening nice gifts that the intruder gave. The Nacirema people let me see this happen. When I saw it I saw the fat intruder trespassing the house by going through the Nacirema ritual place. I could not believe that the Nacirema people let the intruder go through their ritual place. They said if this tradition didn't happen then their kids would be sad not having someone intrude their house one night every single year. Then when I saw this bizarre experience happen I saw that the Nacirna people put socks and trees in their houses for the intruder to put things in. Even crazier is that he flies in a chariot pulled by magical horses and lands on top of the house. I could not and will not believe that these people don't wake up when the intruder lands on every house. These weird and bizarre peoples believe in magical and crazy rituals.

The Nacirema believes in many insane rituals but this one is the craziest. They believe that their kids are poor and need things. This is what happened on the day they celebrate the birth of their god. They believe the only way to make this happen is to celebrate the birth of one of their gods.

~ Ethan R.

Exotic Costume Wearing

The Nacirema are a tribe of people who live southwest of Greenland. They appear to have a ritual where they dress up in elaborate garments and receive gifts for their ritual from strange mystic people who have enchanted statues that light up. They fear that if they do not do this ritual, they would be taunted for their lack of gifts and have no edible things to sustain themselves.

The ritual begins at dusk, where adolescents dress in their exotic garments to visit the first mystic house. With them, they each have a sack where gifts are dumped in. They knock on the door to announce their arrival and when the door opens, they speak a secret password after which the mystic people give them gifts. This is repeated for the next 2 hours. Sometimes, the mystical people do not feel like giving the gifts out and leave them at the door. When this happens, they dump all of the gifts into their sack. I believe that the young who receive these gifts believe that the whole bucketful of gifts is also for them so they take it all. When they have finished, they return to their lair and count their gifts. Occasionally, when they go and receive their gifts in groups, they wish to trade their gifts with each other because they believe that some gifts have more worth than others. I have discovered that the reason they do this ritual is as it is their way to get gifts that nourish their bodies. The mystical people fear that if they do not willingly distribute gifts, their homes will have white circular rolls thrown all over their houses, and yellow goo stuck to the walls. This is the reason that the mystical people bear gifts for the young.

This is one of the many elaborate rituals that the Nacirema do. This is very strange and I don’t know why the mystical people give out the gifts. Even with the fear of their house being attacked, I wonder how they have managed so long because the adolescents would probably just want more.

~ Owen P.

Tribal Teachings

The Nacirema are a tribe of religious people in East Canada. They have their own beliefs of the way to live, and that the human being needs to be pure. They gather in large buildings to celebrate days and teach young ones about their beliefs. Hello, I'm Dr. Elbillug and I was given a fortunate chance to observe the Nacirema do this strange activity. They get in their moving ships and conduct it slowly to one of the buildings. There, they make a strange sound to signal the start of the day. The small children get in different buildings, according to size, and I was not allowed in. I did get to overhear the pedagogue talking in a strange language, though. Around the middle of the day, the strange sound comes back. The children all pile in line to say their grace and do a daily ritual before eating. After they eat, the pedagogue strictly orders the children back inside. They stay in their designated ritual rooms until early evening, where they line up and do another ritual. They get on a sidewalk and do one more gathering to move ships to the designated child. That was my report on the Nacirema. They do very strange rituals, but one of the most simple ones is the ritual of the “teachings” of Nacirema.

~ Ryan O.

The Chosen One

The Nacirema are a community north of the Gulf of Mexico. They have strange beliefs and believe that magical creatures really exist. The Nacirema have stories about many things like the story of their town. They have also told me stories about magical beasts that they capture and then make them fight. The Nacirema have also told me about the chosen one who saves a princess from a fire breathing turtle. These are just some of their incredible stories. But there are different ways people tell each story. Sometimes the chosen one loses or sometimes the beasts are different. In the stories the beasts are usually. dragons, turtles, and plants. This routine is very unique and strange. They tell these stories on huge tablets, which are thought to be their way of entertaining themselves.

~ Sean M.

The Magical Cleaning Box

I met with the Nacirema which is located in the south and west of Canada, and I was lucky enough to talk to one of them and they told me about this peculiar ritual they perform at most twice every day. The Nacirema believe that you need to keep things shiny and new to just get it dirty again.

Most Nacirema houses have a magical cleaning box where they would put their discs, sphere and hollow orbs into and when they come out they are brand new. I observed Nacirema people doing this ritual and here is the ritual they showed me.

First they would turn on a tube that leaks water into a big tub and would put their hand under the water a couple times. Then they would grab a orb and place it into the tub. They would squirt a potion onto this orb and then rub it with a tiny blue box. Finally they would run the orb under the water again and place it into the magical cleaning box.

When this is finished they would open the magical cleaning box and all it would be dry. They place discs carefully. They wipe dishes when they come out if they are not dry yet. They do this every day from morning to night.

My studies have shown that half of the people who do this ritual don't even want to do it! So why do the Nacirema do this? I interviewed one of them and they stated, “So that rodents and creatures would not come into our house and eat the food off the dirty discs, sphere and hollow orbs.”

To conclude, the Nacirema like stuff clean so they put themselves through this ritual that just seems so tiring. How do the Nacirema deal with this everyday?

~ Addison P.

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