Azione n°2 – Initiation

Initiation n. f. [from the late Latin initiatio -onis] – TRECCANI

1. Act or series of acts and ceremonies by which one is admitted, or is admitted, to participation in mystery cults, to knowledge of occult doctrines, to be part of a society, a community, a group from which the non-initiated are excluded: rite, initiation rites; i. to Freemasonry; in ethnology and in the history of religions, a complex of practices and rites through which an individual or a group of individuals passes from one condition to another (for example, from the pubertal state to the adult state), or assumes particular powers and privileges: i. tribal, i. magical. More generally, admission to a sect, a secret society, a closed social group, and the like.
   
2. By extension, training, initiation to a discipline, an art, a technique, a specialized study, the exercise of a particular activity, a practice: i. to political life; i. to welfare activities; i. priestly, i. ascetic; he had had from his father his first i. to music (or painting, a taste for poetry, etc.); i. amorous, or even simply initiation, the first sexual experience.