Anthropology - Futility Closet

Anthropology - Futility Closet

Image: Wikimedia Commons Beneath the charm-box is a small font. Each day every member of the family, in succession, enters the shrine room, bows his head before the charm-box, mingles different sorts of holy water in the font, and proceeds with a brief rite of ablution. The holy waters are secured from the Water Temple of the community, where the priests conduct elaborate ceremonies to make the liquid ritually pure. — Horace Miner, “Body Ritual…