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This document summarizes several theories about the purpose and meaning of traumatic initiation rituals, known as "rites of terror", in Melanesian societies. It discusses the theories of Bloch, who argues that rituals like the Orokaiva embahi ceremony symbolically negate biology and affirm social order and transcendence. Through portraying novices as pigs and embahi as birds, the ritual conceptualizes a distinction between the corporeal and sacred aspects of humanity. It ultimately transforms novices from v

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