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the purpose of cultural mask
Masks and cultural life of their main objective for a large part been overlooked in the “civilized” world. use of masks, ritual dance, performed during a major religious and social life of our ancestors. To better understand their origins and reasons for its importance, we need to explore other areas.
The African continent is a region where the true meaning of the mask is the most obvious. African tribal masks can be associated with the ancestors, ceremony, religion, traditions and secret societies, which still play an important role today.
Many municipalities make the mask is not written language, then the mask and the performance is a way for them to send their heritage. Tales of the South Seas are less known than those found in Africa. While the masks of the Melanesian island of New Caledonia, New Guinea and New Hebrides became known to a wider audience in recent years. In Melanesia, the veneration of ancestors as the most dominant. The renovated and painted skulls, representing the ancestors, could possibly derived from ancient Neolithic cultures of the Middle East.
Ceylon and Tibet masks are used in a way that seems alien to the western mind. Ceylon masks representing demons of illness and healing ceremonies to banish the demons that they believe that evil spirits. The healing ceremony was used psychological methods aimed at the psyche of the patient, who also had an effect on their physical condition. This healing ceremonies would not have survived thousands of years and spread throughout the world, if they are not produced results.
Native American masks found in North America have often taken the form of animals. It can be a totem pole ancestor. Although it is known that the spirit of using “a shaman, a spirit that the shaman (shaman or healer) has convened to help represent her work magic.
Another important type of mask is the mask of theater. Noh Theatre of Japan are the most popular and will be presented today. Noh masks: a heroic person, a bad character, spirit, god, devil or mythical animals, and works are considered very advanced. Their roots are still in the myths and cults of Japan past, but has broken with his strictly religious purpose. Theatre Masks can be traced back to ancient Greece
European masks are known for a race through the ages, but is no longer the primary meaning of his past. Carnival masks are now regarded more as products of folk art.
cultural masks many parts of the world can be divided into three main categories:
1. For Parents – Tradition
2. Spirit Helpers
3. Masque Theatre
Masks culture has always been a magical and mysterious feel to them.