Davis (DD 937) - Naval Cruise Book

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F 5. The first description of the ceremony belongs to French sources and the year 1529, when the brothers Parmentier crossed the Equator in a French ship. Many important factors contributed to the introduction of the ceremony and its paraphernalia. Sailing was not safe at the time. Storm and calms alike were a constant threat to the lives and health of those manning ships. Sailing south of the Equator presented additional hazards caused by the tropical climate, scarcity of drinking water and stale food. It was a big event for any sailor who had never travelled so far before. First of all, therefore, the occasion was marked by a service. Solemnly the men asked for divine protection in those insecure and still little-known regions. And then, at the conclusion of the voyage, they thanked God for having guarded them. Though invisible in the ocean, the line was conspicuously marked on all maps. Hence in the mind of a sailor it played an important role, showing where he entered the Southern Hemisphere. The fact that the Equator could not be seen in the water, but was an imaginary line, gave the occasion of its crossing' a mysterious and mystical meaning. Superstition and fear, always present in a sailor's life, soon attached themselves to the event. Somehow the Equator's spirit had to be placated. To achieve that, sailors were ready to suffer ignorminy, ridicule and even pain. They paid with them, as it were, for their safe passage. The rough and sometimes merciles play belonged to all initiation rites. It was a test. The young and inexperienced sailor was on trial and had to prove his power of endurance, his courage and his indifference to physical and mental pain. That is why, in early days, sapart from the shaving and general humiliation, the ritual also included corporal punishment and the throwing of the sailor from the deck into the sea. Having passed the ordeal, this test of manhood, he was presented with a certificate, stating that it gives the god of the ocean particular pleasure to be able to say that during baptism he bore himself as a brave tar should!

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