“In all human societies people have been troubled by time:
Things come into being and pass away, but no human community has ever accepted this fact. In all places and times people have believed that there’s a way into the eternal, a door out of time into a place where nothing changes and all is at rest within its being, and the key to this door is repetition. That’s what sacred rituals, words and places provide: the prayers, chants, costumes, steps and gestures must be repeated exactly.”
Roger Scruton