coming-of-age rites
Adolescent transition rituals
Coming-of-age rites are ceremonies or rituals marking the transition from childhood to adulthood.
These vary widely across cultures—from religious confirmations to tribal initiations involving physical trials or symbolic death and rebirth.
The rites typically occur around puberty and formally acknowledge new responsibilities, privileges, or social status: The vision quest was a traditional coming-of-age rite among many Plains tribes.
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- pubertySexual development stage
- adolescenceTeenage developmental stage
- passageSegment of text
ceremony · tribal · tribal elder · secret society · manhood · first hunt · womanhood · first blood · threshold · transformation · elder · mentor · vision quest · spirit journey · scarification · ritual scarring · circumcision · tattoo
- folk customsfolk dances, folk customs, folk costumes, folk traditions, folk medicine
- native spiritualitymedicine man, sacred ceremonies, vision quest, sweat lodge, medicine men
- Riteslibation, sacrifices, prostration, kowtow, ancestral worship
- tribal folkloretribal legends, tribal lore, origin stories, ancestral stories, epic tales
coming-of-age ritesdeath rites
Ceremonies for the departed
last rites · memorial services · funeral rites · burial ceremonies · wake
coming-of-age ritesdeath rituals
Ceremonies marking life's end
mourning rites · cremation rites · ancestor veneration · posthumous honors · eulogies
come, comes, coming, comings, others, otherwise, otherness, ages, ageless