Missa Plastikon

Carrbono Commons N.C.

August 28, 2006

Bobublee, the saint of Boxes, Blistens and Bubbles is reborn, cleansed and transformed in one of the most popular services of trash worship society.

Helping yanbukis mill around standard trash bins as  you would find anywhere in the country.

The waste bin is adorned with care and with festive choices of plastic packaging trash.

In carrboro we found some of the cleanest waste containers to be seen anywhere. 

They are engulfed in planks of rosewood and they command respect as receptacles for garbage.

The Missa Plastikon, (Plastic Garbage Mass), only needs two yanbuki attendants:

Jessie Really?

and

Holy Rim

Holy & Jessie

 

 Plus a Kantor for the invocations and the prayers.

 Prayer books are passed around to a faithful crowd at the really really free market.

The worshippers chant invocations and recite the ode of devotion to Detritus under urgings from the Kantor.

Trash pickings for cleansing follows.

 

Worshippers patiently wait on line by the water fountain for their turn to cleanse, purify and return the clean trash to the altar.

 

 

They are met there by the Yanbukis who help them sort and transform the now pure trash into santush (amulets) and other objects for every day reuse.

 

 

It is a very hot afternoon and after the cleansing rituals and some transformations not many worshippers last for the service finale which calls for chanting in chorus the "Garbage Song" and lighting up the area with votive fire sparklers.

 

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