Objective Correlative as Aesthetics in Indigenous Rites

AbstractThe transition of the dead to world ancestors in indigenous societies goes beyond burial and physical disintegration individual. The rites attendant on absence deceased Ugbo/Benin milieu culminate final journey ancestors. This can be termed apotheosis which may considered general recognition that an ancestor could sit among other While using aesthetics as a springboard, paper establishes fact ritual performances amount what Eliot T. S. terms “the objective correlative”, new generations aestheticians such James Shelley call “sensible pleasures, rational pleasures”, Wonderly “transcendent desires.” signs symbolic gestures rite passage are potent means establishing belief amplifying picturesque presentation seem abstract instrumental upholding rituals societies. further amplify people necessary must attend demise every person upon yield power death negation bring fatal consequences offspring