One has to proceed atomistically and piecemeal from 'blaze' to 'blaze,' 'beacon' to 'beacon,' if one is properly to follow the indigenous mode of thinking.
Turner argues that Ndembu symbolic interpretation proceeds serially through discrete ritual markers — each 'beacon' a node of meaning that orients the interpreter toward the next, constituting a chain of illuminated guidance through the structure of religious thought.
, The Ritual Process Structure and Anti-Structure, 1966thesis