We Need Something Concrete, Something Perceptible, Tangible.

We need it very much, sometimes it seems manially. For this need, both ludic rituals and methodological, impeccable scientific statistics are founded. Since we all need it, it must be something to be found anywhere in the world. Something we have with us. Anthropologists have written more books on blood rituals, on the distinction between pure and impure, blue and rude blood than we would like to read. Our imagination attributes the tendency to self-harm to other species, such as a pelican from late antique and medieval bestiaries, feeding its chicks with blood from its own breast. Blood is a substance used for sublimation, but for unclear reasons the desired sublimation transformation must usually be preceded by something quite the opposite, something physiological and cruel. Only such a span of extreme action fully revives our emotions. The imagination copes worse with the further, already bloodless phase of the mystery. Light turns out to be too weak, too little concrete factor to build a crowded, predictable reaction around it. Within Christianity, folk mysteries usually end with the Crucifixion. Then you can only combine with a black scarf removed from the face Mater Dolorosa Like in Filipino Salubong, Celebrated at dawn on Easter Saturday. The continuation, important for this religion, is already the domain of strongly abstract liturgy and homilecy, rhetorical tricks of "scribes" who dogmatically mix light and this with Logos, and this with Spirit, i.e. abstractions that never pulsated too clearly. 

It so happens that in a week Easter will be celebrated in the East, both by Greek Catholics and Orthodox. Strength Mystery play "Flowing" straight from the flowing blood guards can be somewhere in the area of Bachmut media spectacular. Media scholars write about a cyclically recurring crisis of trust towards new media and shifting attention in search of another, "better" one. Blood is a very old medium, not as attractive as it is said to be. Eloquentia sanguinan In Tacitus means: greedy of blood, not eloquent, or Eloquent. It would be Beautiful, If in a year somewhere in the eastern mud appeared instead of blood rituals Filipino Puso-puso Hiding little girls pretending to be an angel, revealing that there is no death and you can already pour flowers and confetti.

Illustration: Easter Mystery in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, in Manila (photo. Danny Pata) and the moment of removing the veil in time Salubong, on Easter Saturday in Quezon City