12/20/08



"The vernacular term for it is chinjikijilu, from kupjikijila, 'to blaze a trail,' by cutting marks on a tree with one's ax or by breaking and bending branches to serve as guides back from the unknown bush to known paths. A symbol, then, is a blaze or landmark, something that connects the unknown with the known." –Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols, 1967