Is This Prayer?
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Is this prayer?

Not really. Prayer generally has very specific, clearly stated goals. You’re asking for something ("Give us this day our daily bread"), you’re confessing or affirming something ("Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory"), you’re praising or giving thanks or expressing adoration ("Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name"). And prayer assumes various things about a deity which are not involved here.

Saltlicks are closer to chanting, in that they involve the slow repetition of rhythmic language. But here, of course, one is "chanting" alone and silently.

 



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