Caillois says that festival (in anthropology) and its excess is reenactment of the primordial days of Chaos where myths were taking place and gods were walking, where there was no taboo and everything was spontaneous. It's state as well as period, that reemerges. It's a state of miracles and supernatural things happening. A period taken out of time.
Yet at the same time the festival is also the time of monstrosities.

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