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Posted: Tue 20:37, 01 Mar 2011 Post subject: On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Published ccaaoexj |
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occasions somewhere in the dim past.
Ogbuefi Ezeuduwho was the oldest man in the villagewas telling
two other men who came to visit him that the punishment for
breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan.
It has not always been so he said. My father told me that he had
been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged
on the ground through the village until he died. But after a while
this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was
meant to preserve.
Somebody told me yesterday said one of the younger men [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that
in some clans it is an abomination for a man to die during the
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]k of Peace.
It is indeed true said Ogbuefi Ezeudu. They have that custom in
Obodoani. If a man dies at this time he is not buried but cast into
the Evil Forest. It is a bad custom which these people observe
because they lack understanding. They throw away large numbers
of men and women without burial. And what is the result? Their
clan is full of the evil spirits of these unburied deadhungry to do
harm to the living.
After the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]k of Peace every man and his family began to clear
the bush to make new farms. The cut bush was left to dry and fire
was then set to yilai:
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ColdrepliedM.Max
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