WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.550 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.550 --> 00:00:04.977 align:middle line:84% Here's something a bit different, 00:00:04.977 --> 00:00:06.060 align:middle line:90% called "Rites of Passage." 00:00:06.060 --> 00:00:09.030 align:middle line:90% 00:00:09.030 --> 00:00:11.437 align:middle line:84% Rites of passage were puberty rites that term 00:00:11.437 --> 00:00:15.040 align:middle line:84% that you get in most primitive tribes. 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:16.590 align:middle line:84% A boy would be sent into the jungle 00:00:16.590 --> 00:00:20.130 align:middle line:84% to kill a lion or something like that to prove 00:00:20.130 --> 00:00:22.020 align:middle line:90% that he had entered manhood. 00:00:22.020 --> 00:00:31.560 align:middle line:84% As society got less primitive, the rites became more symbolic. 00:00:31.560 --> 00:00:38.700 align:middle line:84% Thus, in Rome, it was simply a change of toga from the tunic 00:00:38.700 --> 00:00:42.750 align:middle line:84% or whatever boy wore to the toga of the man. 00:00:42.750 --> 00:00:47.250 align:middle line:84% Jews have the bar mitzvah at about the age of I think 14, 00:00:47.250 --> 00:00:48.150 align:middle line:90% isn't it? 00:00:48.150 --> 00:00:54.270 align:middle line:84% And strangely enough, most Western gentiles 00:00:54.270 --> 00:00:56.850 align:middle line:84% don't have the coming-of-age ceremonies till 21. 00:00:56.850 --> 00:00:59.898 align:middle line:84% I don't know what people are supposed to do between puberty 00:00:59.898 --> 00:01:01.440 align:middle line:84% and 21 years old, I've always thought 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:04.120 align:middle line:90% that was an extremely long time. 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:09.480 align:middle line:84% But anyway this symbolic time, the 21st birthday, the bar 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:11.880 align:middle line:84% mitzvah, the acquiring of the toga virilis 00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:15.540 align:middle line:84% was originally accompanied by some sort of test 00:01:15.540 --> 00:01:18.450 align:middle line:90% or some sort of feat. 00:01:18.450 --> 00:01:26.280 align:middle line:84% And at this point, I might have a son addressing his father, 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:28.770 align:middle line:90% not a sinister kind of way. 00:01:28.770 --> 00:01:31.650 align:middle line:84% And the son thinks that he is turning into a horned animal, 00:01:31.650 --> 00:01:33.910 align:middle line:90% like maybe a deer or something. 00:01:33.910 --> 00:01:38.070 align:middle line:84% And at the end, it seems that he is threatening 00:01:38.070 --> 00:01:41.950 align:middle line:84% to castrate his father, which is an old European custom which 00:01:41.950 --> 00:01:42.450 align:middle line:90% you find-- 00:01:42.450 --> 00:01:43.130 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:43.130 --> 00:01:47.670 align:middle line:84% --by which I mean that you find this in some of the oldest 00:01:47.670 --> 00:01:50.790 align:middle line:90% Greek myths of Zeus and Kronos. 00:01:50.790 --> 00:01:55.470 align:middle line:84% Kronos had all these children by, I think, the Earth-- 00:01:55.470 --> 00:01:57.100 align:middle line:90% Kronos being time. 00:01:57.100 --> 00:01:58.740 align:middle line:84% Time and Earth had these children 00:01:58.740 --> 00:02:00.370 align:middle line:90% and kept on eating them. 00:02:00.370 --> 00:02:02.790 align:middle line:90% And one of them was Zeus. 00:02:02.790 --> 00:02:05.550 align:middle line:84% And Zeus decided the only way to stop his father 00:02:05.550 --> 00:02:09.810 align:middle line:84% from all this business was to castrate him, which he did. 00:02:09.810 --> 00:02:15.210 align:middle line:84% And then Zeus had these dreadful, incestuous exploits. 00:02:15.210 --> 00:02:17.988 align:middle line:90% Anyway, this is something else. 00:02:17.988 --> 00:02:19.530 align:middle line:84% This is a boy speaking to his father. 00:02:19.530 --> 00:02:22.358 align:middle line:90% 00:02:22.358 --> 00:02:23.150 align:middle line:90% "Rites of Passage." 00:02:23.150 --> 00:02:28.110 align:middle line:90% 00:02:28.110 --> 00:02:31.470 align:middle line:90% Something is taking place. 00:02:31.470 --> 00:02:35.130 align:middle line:90% Horns bud bright in my hair. 00:02:35.130 --> 00:02:37.890 align:middle line:90% My feet are turning hoof. 00:02:37.890 --> 00:02:41.180 align:middle line:90% And, father, see my face. 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:49.420 align:middle line:84% Skin that was damp and fair is bark-like and feel rough. 00:02:49.420 --> 00:02:52.090 align:middle line:90% See gray top how I shine. 00:02:52.090 --> 00:02:54.370 align:middle line:90% I rear, break loose. 00:02:54.370 --> 00:02:57.550 align:middle line:84% I may snuffing the air and harden 00:02:57.550 --> 00:03:01.750 align:middle line:90% toward a completion, mine. 00:03:01.750 --> 00:03:04.802 align:middle line:84% And next, I make my way adventuring 00:03:04.802 --> 00:03:05.635 align:middle line:90% through your garden. 00:03:05.635 --> 00:03:08.680 align:middle line:90% 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:10.960 align:middle line:90% My play is earnest now. 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:13.870 align:middle line:90% I canter to and fro. 00:03:13.870 --> 00:03:17.410 align:middle line:90% My blood, it is like light. 00:03:17.410 --> 00:03:22.570 align:middle line:84% Behind an almond bough, horns gaudy with its snow, 00:03:22.570 --> 00:03:26.560 align:middle line:90% I wait live out of sight. 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.880 align:middle line:90% 00:03:29.880 --> 00:03:34.200 align:middle line:84% All planned before my birth for you, old man. 00:03:34.200 --> 00:03:38.940 align:middle line:84% No other, whom your groins trembling warns. 00:03:38.940 --> 00:03:44.640 align:middle line:84% I stamp upon the Earth, a message to my mother. 00:03:44.640 --> 00:03:48.740 align:middle line:90% And then I lower my horns. 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:50.479 align:middle line:90%