It's a little more complicated than the above comments. If you remember, it says "she lost her daughter off to a sacred order...". The sacred order is a cult (...where they get stoned and work the earth" and the parade is a metaphor for a group of people who do what everyone else does, acts like everyone else... like a cult.
It's a little more complicated than the above comments. If you remember, it says "she lost her daughter off to a sacred order...". The sacred order is a cult (...where they get stoned and work the earth" and the parade is a metaphor for a group of people who do what everyone else does, acts like everyone else... like a cult.