Magna Serpaensism/Rites of Adulthood

Extracted from "Letters of Priest Teilhard to the Pagans of Tichi" Today i will instruct you of the way the followers of Magnus are regonized as adults. For this, they must show the strenght of a man, but also they must ba able to avoid the recklessness of the child.ump On the month of the sixthteenth birthday of a youth, he is brought with is mother and father, and the priest, into a boat , and they sail together towards the open sea. As the boat get farther and farther away from the shore, the youth must jump of the boat and reach the shore by swimming. His mother urges him to jump right away and gain the safety of the shore while it is easy, while his father urges him tirto continue with the adults just a while longer for the honor of the family. The choice of the moment to jump, however, is entirely the youth choice. The farther from the shore he goes in the water, the greater the honor for his family. If the youth jumps or falls so close from the coast that he can still walk in the water, it is a huge dishonor on him and his family for he had shown the fear of he small child.has the wisdo On the other hand, many a careless youth, wishing to impress his father and his village, has jump too far, and was unable to reach the land. Our lord Magnus teach us that the fool will perish, because He has no need for them. When he reaches the shore, the young adult has shown that he has the wisdom and the pride of the grow up. However, it is yet too soon to welcome in, because an adult must be able to show self reliance. The Youth will then spend one week in the woods speaking to no other human being, with only one knife, and then he must come back with at least a piece of game, even as small as a mice, because Magnus don't want servants who wait for the end of the storm, with hungers in their belly, but servants who will be hunters and will be able to take what they need from the wild. When he comes back, there is a great feast with lots of drinks and meat, but the youth will eat only what he had brought back from his week in the wild, to show that he puts the wellness of his village before his own. After that, he will truly be recongized as an adult and the priest will give him is adult name.