The movie that we watched in our special religion class on Monday showed a clip of the women making beaded necklaces. Dr. Redick made a comment that the beads were text. In there own way they were recording their beliefs. He also mentioned the same thing for dancing. This got me thinking about text as more of a legacy then anything else. Books can explain the "why's" of a civilization, explain the details of the habits, but the other texts, such as the beads, show something that the writing text cannot do. It expresses who people were, what mattered to them, who and what they believed in, in a way that words are inadequate in explaining.
The dancing is a little different, but it is still a legacy. Although we can't see them doing it now, the fact that they danced as a community shows their union in a real way. Not just describing that they were united. I think it also shows that that beliefs are not something that can be described in a book but something that is experienced.
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