> So how does a ritual get successfully passed down for something like 500 generations? There's literally nothing else but this. > motivated them so strongly

> So how does a ritual get successfully passed down for something like 500 generations? There's literally nothing else but this. > motivated them so strongly to pass it along with the necessary vigor? There's no vigor. There are almost no outside influences. There's almost no rebellious thought. You're raised into this life, and you know the rituals by heart from a young age. > Is there anything in our culture that could possibly have such staying power, Any isolated/primitive culture with no outside influences. Throughout the 20th century ethnographers collected thousands of such rituals before they disappeared after contact with the outside world.