Page 31

By Jack Joseph Smith

The death of the King is psy- logical (in lamenting etc) of the ancestral, and just as real death of the Native gods. The corination of the new King represents a dignity in the natives with their firm holding to symbol, and ritual to bring joy to their lives in the face of their deep loss. Ending Part I

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The death and coronation of a king are treated as psychological and ritual events through which native loss and continuity are both expressed.

What the page emphasizes is not monarchy as spectacle but monarchy as a surviving symbolic form. Lament, dignity, and ritual become ways of holding together a people who have already undergone a deeper religious and cultural dispossession.

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A short directorial gloss. The death of the king is a psychological reality for the natives, a real death of the ancestral gods, and the coronation of the new king is their dignity through symbol and ritual, bringing joy in the face of deep loss. Marked as the ending of Part I.