Traditions capture belief and behavior of ancestors.
The 2000-year-old Roman walls of my town of Colchester are presently covered in scaffolding as they undergo major repairs. Throughout the last 2000 years Colchester residents periodically repair and maintain our walls, such as King Edward the Elder in 921 CE, Roman wall repairs is a town tradition.
I respect traditions, they contain the wisdom of ancestors that may go back tens of thousands of years. Traditions are national, community or family, but they encode the beliefs and behaviors of ancestors passing from generation to generation. Chauvet contains some of the best cave paintings in the world, cave painting is a tradition at Chauvet, and the main purpose of Chauvet as a place of rite of passage for youths was over a period of ten thousand or more years, only interrupted by occasional climate change cold peaks.
Our ancestors were more closely connected to raw nature, birth, life and death than we are. One of the common themes of the traditions of ancestors was to promote fertility to the land, a way of spiritually inviting prosperity, which includes health, happiness and abundance. Morris dancers occasionally perform in Colchester, a national tradition recorded to at least 1448 CE which are a folk tradition often performed on certain days of the year around the communities of Britain to promote the blessing of prosperity to the community.
Traditions like Morris dancing remind us what we have forgotten about, that nature is the cause of our prosperity, we indulge in the traditions to share the respect for nature and the land as our ancestors did. There is a direct relationship between our forgetting our traditions and our separation from nature.
I am now away at least one week. I wish all my readers a prosperous week.