[…] if the contrivers of cultural performances, whether these are recognized as individual authors, or wether they as representatives of a collective tradition, geniuses or elders, hold the mirror up to nature, they do this with “magic mirrors” which make ugly or beautiful events or relationships which cannot be recognized as such in the continuous flow of quotidian life in which we are embedded. These mirrors themselves are not mechanical, but consist of reflecting consciousness and the products of such consciousnesses formed into vocabularies and rules, into metalinguistics grammars, by means of which new unprecedented performances may be generated. ( Victor Turner )