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Time For Games And Rituals: However ritual is interpreted, it must be considered as one of the primary forces which stabilize and give con¬tinuity to institutional religion. It also appears to serve man's deep-seated urge to formalize and stylize his most significant acts. Religious rituals are most evident at such moments in life as birth, marriage, and death. When a people are primarily dependent upon agriculture, there are innumerable rituals associated with the harvest; and seafaring people develop rituals around the naming and launching of ships.
In Europe, during medieval times and later, elves, fairies, and witches (who occasionally took the shape of cats) were believed to fly on All Hallows Eve, and bonfires were lit to ward off these spirits. Vestiges of these beliefs and prac¬tices persisted in Scotland and Ireland into recent times. Halloween was also a time for games and rituals involving methods of foretelling the future. Through such omens as apple parings thrown over the shoulder or nuts burned in the fire, young people tried to determine their marital prospects.See Also Hockey Games And Curling:8. Sports to Be Witnessed or Practiced Spectator sports are headed by soccer football in summer and by big snow and ice events in winter. Winter sports need special emphasis, for they are characteristic of Aus¬tria, especially in the Tyrol and Vorarlberg resorts. They include not only skiing, with jumping and slalom events commanding chief attention, but also thrilling toboggan races, hockey games and curling. These sports are, of course, sought by many foreign participants as eagerly as they are by onlookers.
In international competitions, British track achievements are on a par with other countries of comparable size and climate. However, a good many British athletes who take world honors— for instance David Hemery, winner of the 400-meter hurdles in the 1968 Olympics—were trained in the United States.
Other Sports. Other outdoor activities engaged in by Britons of all ages are cycling, canoeing, orienteering (running an outdoor course aided by a map and compass), climbing, skiing, pot-holing (descending into underground caves), pony trekking, horseback riding, and team games such as hockey and lacrosse.
On The Other Hand See Computer Games:Potential applications of the computer games made possible by microelectronics include a small computer games in every home or a pocket computer games terminal that can be connected to a powerful central computer games via the telephone. Such devices may be used to solve our numerical problems (e.g., income tax, or our bank balance) or as a creative tool to relate our knowledge and experiences to our future actions.
And what of the computer games? Olof Johannesson's 1966 novel, The Tale of the Big computer games (which first appeared in an American edition in 1968), offers a history of the develop¬ment of computer gamess as told by an advanced computer games of the future. In an unemotional, utterly convincing essay, it describes the gradual obsolescence and disappearance of its creator, man. |
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