Rituals

From the Amazon where babies must be guarded from spirits to China where a festival helps teens find love or from desert weddings in North Africa to elaborate Indonesian funerals -- incredible ceremonies mark birth, marriage and death all over the world.

From brutal skin cutting to having your hair plucked out, ancient initiation rituals are meant to be spectacular with the power to change your identity.

An Inuit boy hunts on sea ice, Japanese men haul massive logs, Indonesian ancestors ask for human blood, Aboriginal ceremonies teach respect for fire and big wave surfers take on the power of the ocean -- rituals like these aim to honor nature's power.

Rival districts battle in a 700-year-old horserace, 2,000 men perform a fire ritual, one devotee joins millions to fulfill a gueling vow to God, men are initiated into ancient clans and new ceremonies fulfill our desire to belong -- binding us together.