in some cases, a practical meaning aimed at the preservation of living conditions is evident I scared taboos and ritual laws. A famous example ois the ” pig -cycle ” of the New Guinea Maring, where every twelve years a year-long ritualized slaughter of pigs ( supposedly ) restablished the balance between humans and their environment.
— Chapter 6 ” Mother Earth and The Father in the Heaven: on the Ecology of Religion” in Nature and Power
