INITIATION CEREMONY IN PRIMITIVE TRIBES AND SOME RELIGIONS

Abstract

Initiation ceromony is a ritual that signifies when someone reach to acertain age then, an attempt to be a member of an assembly or a group. Thisinitiation ceromony can be occured in any society either in a primitive or in acivilized society. Although, the implementations process of initiation cerom-ony may sometimes vary however the purpose of it remains same. This is thepurpose make individuals to accustom to the collective educational, religiousor mithic sense. In preliterate society these rituals are loaded with religiouscontent. In primitive societies the initiation ceremony were also held whenthe young girls and boys reach their puberty age and also when they are seenas an adult of the society. The ceremony contains some difficult ordeals forthe youngs and in order to become successful participant to gain admittanceto the society these young people need to prove themselves through these dif-ficult ordeals. In some primitive societies gaining admittance and becoming amember require that getting intercourse with his protective spirit. At the endof all these process, the candidate gains a name and full membership when ifsuccesfully complete the tasks and they become adults who now have socialaffiliation. These rituals can also be observed in civilized society’s culture.The initiation ceremony in advanced societies’ religious traditions is howeverdifferent and the rituals are contain more symbolic meanings. The principalof physical suffering during initiation ceremonies in primitive society is theform of spiritual readiness in civilized societies. Hindu Upanayana, Jewish Bar/Bat Mitzvah and baptism rituals of Christians are typical ceremonies ini-tiation. This study examines how the initiation ceremony that an importantsocial ritual, takes place in the religious tradition of primitive and some civi-lized societies.