Ritual Walkthroughs
Step inside a documented ancient rite
Scroll-driven reconstructions of documented rituals, one step at a time — every frame split into an emic pane (what the participant believed, sourced to inscriptions and ritual texts) and an etic pane (what historians infer, scholar-named), never blended. A walkthrough ships only when every caption is licensed by a tier-1/2 vault note. One is ready; three are blocked on gathering, and their blocking questions sit in the register (Q31–Q33).
c. 1250 BCE
A Shang oracle-bone divination — Yinxu, reign of Wu Ding. Charge · crack · reading · record · verification.
witness it → (the procedure is literally written on the surviving bones)
1st millennium BCE
Akitu festival, day 4 — Babylon. The Enūma Eliš recited before Marduk.
gathering required — blocked on a tier-1 note on the Akitu ritual tablets (Linssen 2004) · register Q31 →
c. 1200–900 BCE
A Vedic fire offering (agnihotra/yajña) — kindling Agni, ghee oblations, priestly roles.
gathering required — blocked on a tier-1 śrauta-procedure note; every frame must carry the composition-vs-attestation caveat · register Q32 →
New Kingdom
An Opening of the Mouth ceremony — the adze touching the mummy's mouth.
gathering required — blocked on a tier-1 note on Otto's 1960 edition of the scene-sequence · register Q33 →
Backdrops are the vault's domain illustrations, re-treated per step via CSS filters — no scene renders are generated until a walkthrough's captions are fully licensed. Proposal: ritual-walkthroughs.