ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights initiation into the Ogo society demonstrates how individual symbols interact with one another to collectively affect ritual efficacy, as well as the dynamic relationship between ceremonial progression and the enhancement of emotional efficacy. The study of myth, according to Tylor, makes provision for laying bare prehistoric connections between peoples that have been totally lost in memory and of which we have no material evidence. This could explain why myths are often told during celebrations and ritual processes such as the initiation into the Ogo society. Under the different phases of initiation into the Ogo society, one finds that the different stages of the ritual evoke many possibilities and highlight the complex nature of the interaction between myth and ritual. The chapter initiates into the Ogo society not only involves the initiates, but is a community affair.
