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"...the children continue to play the game of the bell without knowing that they are giving life to an initiatory game, the purpose of which is to penetrate and be able to get out of a maze; by playing the bell the children symbolically descend to the underworld and return to the land."

(Mircea Eliade, Occultism Witchcraft and Cultural Fashions. Chicago, 1976. Trad .: Florence: Sansoni, 1982)