--- Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco, "Introduction, Photography and Time Eternal," in Phyllis Galembo: Mexico Masks Rituals, Radius Books/D.A.P.; Bilingual edition (2019 : 11)
Excerpt
The myth, a set of mental representations that integrate a particular worldview, inhabits the space of the imaginary. Material products of culture such as masks, costumes, musical instruments, food, beverages, or words pronounced as mantras, are a few of the ritualistic elements which go inextricably hand in hand with corporeal expression—dance, gesture, movement— actions without which the rite couldn't be carried out. According to Mircea Eliade, in his book The Sacred and The Profane (Lo sagrado y lo profano), and to Claude Lévi-Strauss, the rite is myth in action, and it constitutes the origin of music, poetry, dance, theatre, and painting. In other words, the rite places the myth on the scene; it materializes what the myth imagines.
