Jessica Thomas "Rituals"

Yadhtrib

The celebration of Yadhtrib is a very strange celebration. The Nacirema people sit around large oak rectangles, propped up a few feet off the ground for their long pale legs to fit under. They sit in almost a miniature version of the first rectangle but with a long rectangular piece sticking out the back, maybe to keep them from falling off. Surrounded by many other of these strange objects all surrounded by a high brink walls connecting at four corners. The walls are draped in long flowing silk like cloth, giving the room an elegant feel. The other Naciremas, the ones who aren't sitting at the strange objects, are walking around with large silver oval like objects balancing on top of their delicate hands. Them unlike the casually dress other Nacirema people, are wearing black from neck to foot all except a white piece of cloth tied around their waist. On their silver ovals miniature ovals sit precariously on top piled high with different shapes and colors. Leafy green plant like things are covered in little pieces of red juicy prisons and cylinder shaped yellow chunks of some kind of spoiled milk!

The black dressed Naciremas bring the silver ovals over to the strange wooden objects and set them down in front of the casually dressed Naciremas they take miniature pitch fork and stab them into these colorful masterpieces, shoveling it into their mouths closing their jaw just slightly to make the pieces smaller. After they finishes all of their silver ovals, an entire line of back dressed Naciremas spew out of the closed metal door surround the strange object they are calling a table. They open there round mouths and start speaking in a rhythmic pattern jumping between frequencies to create some kind of melody. Apparently this is normal for the Naciremas at the table are creating a rough belly noise.

One lone black dressed Nacirema takes careful strides to the table placing a small cottage like object in front of one Nacirema in specific, the littlest one. The bottom is some kind of ruffled paper wrapping it up and the top is a creaming colorful material placed in a large swirl along the top. Sticking strait up out of the top is a long tube like structure with a bright blue, yellow and red tear drop sticking out of the top. It looks hot like it could burn, why would they take that risk. As the melody of the Naciremas come to an end, the littlest Nacirema bends forward and pushes her diaphragm outward drawing in a large breath. Then exhaling deeply making the strange tear drop of color, disappear into thin air. The entire room lets out high pitch squeaks and slams there hands together making a very audible sound. The littlest Nacirema then continues to stick the strange object into her mouth, pulling the end of you lips upward into a sort of semi circle.