A Celebration Of Origins By Wai Brama

Myths deal with the origin of the world. For the people of Wai Brama, their ancestors have decided to pass on their story of how Wai Brama was brought up throughout all generations. Myth means that life must have a beginning, middle, end, and how life ends. In the film, A Celebration Of Origins, we saw animals lives ending because they were being sacrificed throughout the clans. It was a tradition every seven years to end an animal’s life so that the people of Wai Brama could live their lives according to sins being carried away and the deciding factor of leadership. In a religious aspect, myth is nothing more than a story of creation and beliefs of where life will take you in the end. For certain religions, myths explain the creation

“Myth indicates a narrative concerning sacred reality and its relationship to humanity” (Cunningham 57). We turn to the bible and the Qur’anic story of creation to rely on their myths of how humanity was created. In religions such as Christianity, they rely on stories of the bible to show them where life began. For a Jew, their story comes from the larger story of God’s covenant with Israel. For Buddhism, they turn toward the plentiful works on discourses of the Buddha and the collection of texts, Tripitaka. Muslims rely on the teachings of the Qur’an and that he or she has to relate to God and live in the world. Every religion has their own beliefs and myths. It is just a matter of what you choose to believe in and think is true. An example in the film, A Celebration Of Origins, a myth is that if the spleen of the goat that has been sacrificed is not clean, or if it was distorted, the leader of the clan could have been denoted and the rituals practiced were wrong. Yet, if the spleen was clean and healthy, it meant that everything was going right. The leader of the clan was nominated by God and is supposed to be continuing the rituals. The spleen was clean in the film, so, as a tradition, they danced

The people of Wai Brama continue to pass down these stories to their children and the children will pass down their origins to their children. Religion is all about traditions. They are instructed to continue these traditions because it is what they believe in. The religion is seen here when the spleen is clean, indicating that God sends a sign showing approval that the man should be the leader. They fear that if the spleen is unhealthy, the leader is not supposed to be the leader and the tradition has failed. Not all of the clans agree on the religious practices since authority is hard to have over all of the clans and each believe in something different. The government has a lot of control over Wai Brama, yet they do not have control over what religion each clan practices. The priest of the Catholics believes that any Catholic should not participate in these rituals. So those who are told not to do the rituals, disregard what their religion says and they continue to join everyone. Catholics take into play that they should not participate, but they believe that this ritual is important for them enough to participate anyways. The ritual of the spleen being healthy relates to both sacred and myth because they