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Some of these hill forts provide intense foci of activity centring on human remains , which go beyond simple functional concerns of disposal process and into complex ritual most readily explained as aimed at ensuring the future fertility of the community , its crops and stock . There appears to have been much symbolic use of the prime elements of fire , earth , air and water in mortuary ritual . Subject DescriptionThis subject explores the elements of myth and ritual in performance and the relationship of myth to the broader culture . Much of the public believes that the numerically most common religiously motivated homicides are probably by underground Satanic cults who kidnap infants and children for abuse and ritual murder . Nolan thinks of weaving in terms of ritual and meditative state of mind .