Senior Warrior: The Eunoto Ceremony

To begin, the samurai receives physical training, poetry learning, and spiritual discipline. At the ceremony, Genpuku, the warriors become a samurai at age 14 (Doc. C). The knights receive training like learning how to ride a pony, practicing with wooden swords, and accompanying knights in battle. At the age of 7 or 8, the warriors would become a page to serve his father. Later, at the age of 14, the young page would become a squire. The squires would accompany the older knights in battle. For example, they would feed him, dress him, and care for his horses. Around the age of 21, the squire would gain approval from the knight he was serving, and he would become a knight (Doc. C). Based on the evidence, the differences are greater than the

The Ceremony - the use of a proper noun used for this act connotes a sense of importance and status, with the meaning of the noun ‘Ceremony’ giving the reader the impression of it being a positive, meaningful and joyous occasion. This in turn along with the information previously provided to the reader within the first 15 chapters greatly ensures we are more shocked when we are provided with a graphic account of what actually happens during “The Ceremony“.

(Bowers, A.W., 1992) The village members that planned on searching out their enemies could be seen giving feasts to the older men for advice, checking their riding equipment and ceremonial bundles. Warfare was highly encouraged within the tribes and males hoped to show publicly their military accomplishments. The members of the tribe that were asked to remain in the village to help protect women, children and the elderly were praised just as high as if they returned to the village victories from

The `savage' people have a ritual of their own which has multi-purposes. The details of the ceremony involve a `sacrifice' where a boy gets whipped until he collapses in order to "please Pookong and Jesus." (117) Similar to the `civilized' society, this ceremony shows how the people of this society value community and stability. The boy getting whipped is willing to get beaten for the good of the people so that the land would be blessed

The samurai were the feudal warriors of ancient Japan. For thousands of years they upheld the code of bushido, the way of the warrior. Samurai were around for thousands of years, but when did they disappear? Does the code of bushido still exist to this day? Exploring the history of the samurai will give an explanation to what has happened to these formidable warriors.

“They sometimes make figures of men and set them on horses”. They do this to give the impression that that a great crowd of fighting men is assembled there. The chiefs and princes know that the Barbarians will take over so to make them look bigger and stronger they make men figures. After they surrender, they call out the artisans and keep them as fighters, as for the others they keep them as slaves or kill them with an axe.

Rituals around the world all teach valuable lessons that help initiates see the value and importance of life. Each culture has different rituals that provide experiences for their youth to learn these valuable lessons of life. Many coming of age rituals are intense procedures. The Amazon's Satere Mawé youth enter adulthood through the bullet-ant glove initiation, teaching courage and endurance, and the crocodile scaring ritual that the men from the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea participate in teaches them pain and accomplishment.

Samurai and knights were both warriors that thrived during the middle ages. Samurai were Japanese warriors, while knights came from Europe. Samurai started off as tax collectors for Japan. But when the outside world became dangerous and no one was safe, they needed to protect their land and country. Knights, on the other hand, started off by managing and protecting villages. As bandits became more popular in attacking villages the knights started to fight off the bandits. Despite these similarities, samurai and knights were diverse. Samurai and knights’ differences include their training, armor, and views of death.

The small samurai began practicing the basics of fencing with wooden swords at the age of 3, being given a real weapon, a mamorigatana sword for self-defence, between the ages of 5 and 7. A child was required to be able to protect itself from surrounding dangers, family enemies, robbers and vagrants, with his father and male relatives providing early combat training. The boys were sent to be raised by relatives or to the home of a fencing instructor, where they were taught military skills, archery, riding, handling a spear and unarmed combat, jujutsu, i.e. yawara. Attention also contributed to the development of intellectual virtues. There wasn’t a special school for Samurai daughters, who learned how to be good wives and housekeepers from their mothers. These young women also had to learn how to write Japanese syllabic symbols and read classic Japanese literature and poetry, while also receiving weapons training, e.g., in using the naginata spear. The knight’s childhood started with them becoming a Page.The Medieval Page of the Middle Ages was little more than a child. But his training commenced from the age of seven. The duties of a knight were seen as the combat duties and those duties were similar to serving the lords and ladies. The Knighthood training began in earnest as a Page when all their games and sports were geared towards learning skills related to horsemanship, the two-handed sword, battle axe,

In the novel, Sitting Bull Champion of the Sioux by Stanley Vestal, he explains how Slow’s only tasks were “rising early, hunting small game with bows and arrows, and perhaps herding the family stock through long, lazy days on the prairie.” 3 In the 1800’s native American children were taught survival skills as their form of education, rather than the traditional way of reading or writing. Moreover, there was a certain point in a native child’s life where he was no longer a boy, but a man. Usually, each boy will partake in a vision quest. A vision quest was an attempt to achieve a future guardian spirit. Most adolescent boys who take part in the quest will perform honorary fastings or self-torture. On the other hand, Slow was a different story. He was fourteen when he received his own vision quest, his father gave him a coup stick, a decorated stick recording the coups attained by the warrior wielding it. Thereafter, Slow joined his first battle party against the Crow Indians. During the battle, he was able to strike his first warrior thus, expressing much bravery he shouted,” I, Slow, have conquered him!” 3 His father, who was so proud of him, gave Slow a new

In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Tayo, the novel’s protagonist, describes the instance before his brother, Rocky, died by stating that “the wind swept down … [and whipped] the rain into gray waves that blinded him” (11). The ability of the wind to blind Tayo demonstrates its powerful abilities to distort and individual’s perception. Furthermore, Rocky’s death is a moment that disturbs Tayo throughout the entirety of the novel and can be perceived as one of the main factors that caused his illness. The presence of wind in this moment implies that the wind plays a role in the actions of witchery. Witchery refers to the powers of evil created by the Native Americans that are attempting to destroy the world by creating a division between

A ceremony or event marking an important stage in someone's life, especially birth, puberty, marriage, and death.

The warrior rule began in 1185 began as the previous emperor died and Minamoto no Yoritomo seii taishogun - "the barbarian-subduing great general" usually abbreviated as Shogun. Shogun was the highest rank a Warrior Class person could get and was the official head of the warrior government. The Shogun was the supreme military leader and held a great amount of control over the government such as appointing shugo or military agents in provincial regions and jito or military stewards on estates. The first person to become shogun was Minamoto no Yoritomo who established the Kamakura Shogunate after he consolidated land. He was given power over many military courts and was able to assign people to certain warrior class roles.

p. 484). It is a method of making this transition from girl to woman easier.

There comes a point in most people’s lives, where we start looking for the meaning of life. Questioning who we are, why we are here, and what our purpose is. In the novel Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko paints a picture of self-acceptance and self-discovery. With the help of Tayo’s story between the struggle of his past and his present self, Betonie’s tolerance for the world, and the motif of alcoholism we are able to make this overall statement.