All rites are in the final analysis like passage rites which are composed of three states: separation/the pre-liminal, the liminal and aggregation/post liminal.
The liminal state is transgressive in nature, it is anti-structural. "Temporary antinomic liberation from behaviour norms and cognitive rules places participants outside the bounds of structural constraints." Li minality is very closely related to free play. Ritual liminality opens up a space in which participants are free to formulate a potentially unlimited series of alternative social arrangements. In the liminal state, a new
reality is in the process of negotiation, and the participants are
baptized directly in the creative force of nature alive but once socially suppressed within each participant.