As one can see, the Jewish means of the coming of age of a boy is based on the religion.

             On the other hand, In "Things Fall Apart," by Chinua Achebe, the coming of age of a boy in the Ibo culture is not religious at all. In the Ibo culture, there is no ceremony that decides when a Ibo boy "becomes a man," nor is there a certain age. The turning point from a boy to a man in the Ibo culture is depicted by a number of things. He no longer spends time in his mother's hut while she cooked, but rather in his fathers hut or he watches his father tap trees. The most significant change from a boy to a man in the Ibo culture is the departing from and the less respect for the women in the clan. Those two things combined prove that a boy no longer needs the nourishment of women. An example of this is in "Things Fall Apart" when Nwoye ". . . would feign annoyance and grumble aloud about women and their troubles"(Achebe 51). Another sign of when a boy changes into a man is when he wants to receive masculine tasks like splitting wood or pounding food. When a boy stops listening to the stories told by the women and he starts listening to the tales of bloodshed and war told by his father, he is no longer considered a boy. There is no certain mark or age in a boy's life in the Ibo culture when these changes need to happen comparable to the definite age of thirteen in the Jewish religion. It may also happen over a period of time while in the Jewish religion it happens in one day. .

             On the contrary to the nonchalant Ibo culture (on the subject of the transition from boyhood to manhood), it was a very important aspect of the Mayan culture. A party of boys was assembled in the godfather's courtyard where they sat before four elders of the clan along with a priest. The priest was situated next to a brazier. Taking turns, each child stood before the priest where he received maize and a pinch of copal.