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that's a cool way to look at it. i also try to think of dietary prohibitions as a method of internalising ritual.
for a largely nomadic population, diet is a good way of giving structure and discipline to your spirituality.
not so fun dragging your bloody temple around as you wander the desert for thousands of years, is it?
there was a really wicked story that came out in the seventies, (don't quote me on the date). a documentary filmmaker had gone to some strange town in the no-man's-lands of northern portugal. he was initially intending just to make a film about poverty in postmodern europe.
he discovered a catholic family. catholic like from the 13th century, right? old-school catholics. inquisition, auto-da-fe, convert the damned american heathens, extremadura-like catholics. and every day when they sat down for a meal of pork loin and langostines they said in hebrew:
we're not really catholics! we have to keep our fatal secret and practice our faith behind closed doors only, etc.
but they had absofuckenlutely no idea what they were saying.
there's a part of me that finds that level of ignorance about your own bizarre internalised rituals incredibly admirable.
but then, i'm a sicko.
sorry to go on so much.