Ritual introduces you to the meaning of what’s going on.

Saying Grace before meals let you know that you are about to eat something that once was alive.

One day I went to buy fish, I saw a middle aged woman and man sitting on the ground with a basket on the side of the road. I asked how to give fish, they said 123rs per kg.
I said this second one, they said 200!
Then I said it’s okay, give me something else from the other one, I want to eat after roasting.
And on this he told me very angrily.
Don’t speak like that.
And I fell silent.
Then after some time I asked, did I say wrong,
They said ,
You shouldn’t say like that.
You should say give it to me, I will make it and not roast it.

Life lives on life.
and you grace other sacrifices.

Saying roasting is just like humiliation of sacrifice.

The function of ritual is to give form to human life not in the way of a mere surface arrangement but in the depth.

“A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.”
– Joseph compbell