Episode 25 - The Red Meal
Sep 22, 2022•28 min•Ep. 25
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Episode description
RECORDED BY HYPERION (EDDY GUTIERREZ) & ORIGINALLY AIRED 07 / 24 / 2007
Show Highlights:
- The Red Meal is a ritualized sharing of bread and wine with Ancestors, Gods or Spirits of the Land.
- Breaking of bread symbolizes the rending of flesh, and moistening the bread with wine represents the blood issuing forth from the flesh, consumption of the the results in an exchange of spiritual essences with the God or Ancestors with whom the meal is shared.
- The Red Meal can be performed after Treading the Mill, after Taping the Bone, or simply as an act of gratitude, or as a spiritual contract with another entity.
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