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On Sunday morning, the women picked up the initiated youngsters at the end of the Stone Path. The men were waiting at the church. On the curtain between the Stone Path and the pathway to the Retreat, they had written with Edding marker in large letters: “Welcome to Mom! We love you”. Then they welcomed the young people, rubbed them with turmeric and sprayed them with perfume, singing all the while. The youngsters looked at the ground and many were crying. Then they moved off again in a line to the church. There they were greeted by the men and draped with wreaths of flowers.
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Werle, K. (2014). Entry of the Initiated and Return to Society. In: Landscape of Peace. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-05832-6_24
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