当群体意识到他们所做的某些行为与他们所期望的结果之间存在的明显联系时，他们就会对这些行为进行重复，改进，并正式化为固定的典礼或仪式。

Perceiving an apparent connection between certain actions performed by the group and the result it desires, the group repeats, refines and formalizes those actions into fixed ceremonies, or rituals.

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使用人体器官进行魔法仪式或追求神迹的行为和信仰被叫做穆提。

The belief and practice of using body parts for magical ritual or benefit is called muti.

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Aldenderfer和他的团队认为，把尸体剥离皮肉和把他们安葬在洞穴中的这种行为可能是一条以往不为人知的纽带，联系了两种其他已知的死亡仪式。

Aldenderfer and his team think the practice of de-fleshing corpses and entombing them in caves might be a previously unknown bridge between two other known death rituals.

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But we do know from living cultures that people do engage in all kinds of ritual and symbolic actions because of genuine beliefs about the importance of those actions, because those rituals and symbols are extraordinarily meaningful to them.

但是我们可以在还活着的文化中知道些什么,它们蕴含在人们做的各种宗教仪式和有象征意义的行为中,因为人们诚恳地相信这些行为的重要性，因为这些仪式和象征对他们来说意义重大。

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