That just did not do until now the boys of different nations, to become men and full members of the tribe.
Not for the faint-hearted and extremely impressionable!
used to be that in order to become a real man with a capital letter "M", the boy needed to build a house, grow a tree and raise her son.But time passed, and in order to be considered a man, modern children was enough to buy a Chinese iPhone and beg the Pope car for the evening.
More and more guys consider themselves a real man, living with his parents and barely earning cigarettes and pay the internet.
However, do not let the bad news.It's better for the country.For example, the fact that just did not make the boys in order to become a real man.
what I mean?Yes, about the initiation rituals, without which in the old days the boys just could not become full-fledged members of the tribe.Scary, bloody, deadly - the ceremony marked a transition to another human life - a life protector and breadwinner.
initiation rites could be a difficult multi-day or even multi-month process of training the boy all that should know and be able to man, and short, but terribly painful ceremony, which managed to survive not to everyone.
Today I will not touch the initiation rites that must be held by those who come in all sorts of closed communities, because it is - a topic for a completely different conversation.Today let's talk about what had to experience every boy who wants to become a man.Some of the tests are shocking, some laugh, but they are - an integral part of human development.
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When the young man from the Australian tribe Kamilaroi become, according to the elders, as adults, it tears and cries for women, led away from the camp.According to the ritual, women should be discouraged ceremony, wanting to leave the boy as a child, at the same time to help them and the father of the child should be.Only the boy should not just be adamant and indifferent to everything going on - his body painted in red ocher and laying on crossed spears, take away from the tribe.That is what and during the funeral rites, so the young man die for the world of children to be born again adults.Man begin pinching and stabbing, but he must behave like a dead man.Then he knocked out a tooth, which show all the relatives.After the tooth is buried, which symbolizes the burial of the child.After the young man a year out of the tribe at the time he learns to adult life, and no one except the parents and teachers are not allowed to see them.A year later, the young man trained in all the wisdom of adulthood, held a ceremony of fire, during which a long time looking into the fire, singing sacred songs.After marked devoted to blood, they return to the tribe.So is their second birth.
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Probably the simplest and shortest of all initiations happening in Zande tribe, herders and farmers.Father, without all sorts of ceremonies handing his son a spear and a hoe, put his hand on my shoulder and said: - My son!From now on, you're a man.Cultivate his field and Manage to protect him.Lived a life so that your sons, looking at you, would want to become a real man ...
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On remote islands of Samoa initiation ceremony teenager ended only recently and it is good that stopped, for men there would be no more, it seems.This process takes 4-5 days.In order to be considered a man, a boy of 12-13, was to bring the body of a shark.But before that it was necessary to survive the most unpleasant test - boy planted in a vat filled with heated pig's blood, to his skin soaked it.After the child had to drink a cup of menstrual blood odnoplemennits, it showed its superiority over weak women and change the children's blood in his veins to adult.After the boy wrapped svezhevypotroshennoy fish Awali up machetes and were taken by boat out to sea.Now his task - to hold out for five days, for which he had to kill the shark, attracted by the smell of blood and fish.Returns without sharks should not have such a boy became an outcast forever, so many of those who failed to win a predator, commit suicide.The boy returned home with the corpse of a shark became a full member of the tribe.
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The South African Xhosa boys are considered a thing, not a man until you pass the ritual of circumcision called abakveta.On the appointed day, with the first rays of the sun the priest comes to the house boy, and the cries and lamentations of women starts to call him, in every way insulting.The operation is performed in the traditional way - a sharp blade cut off the foreskin of the boy, while the boy has no right to cry, not even wince, and then throws it to the ground with the words "You're a man."The boy has to raise her to repeat "I am a man," and buried in an anthill.The wound was coated with dirt and leaves close.Sometimes the boy would do a few mouthfuls of dirt and smear her own face.After that, the child is considered an adult, however, take advantage of this privilege may not all - many quickly die of blood poisoning.
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One of the most painful initiation ceremonies had to worry about the children of both sexes born in mnongov tribe that lived in the south of Vietnam and eastern Cambodia.Conventional teeth there were considered "horses", which means both boys and girls are considered adults only after the cutting of the four front teeth.Much worse things were from the kindred peoples Ede - their children cut away the entire top row.Just having gone through this painful and lengthy procedure, the children could be considered hardy and strong, so - adults.
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next ritual has given rise to such popular entertainment today as jumping.Among the Aborigines of some islands of the Pacific Ocean and some tribes of South Africa was common practice initiations boys into men by jumping from a height.For example, the people of Vanuatu, the boy was obliging legs strong vine, I had to jump off the cliff.Survivors (which was not too much, because the length of the vines needed to calculate, and its strength is poor) recognized by these men, and from this point to have the same rights and duties as soldiers.
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Villagers Enhuaba situated on the shore of Negro River, in Brazil, are a deadly initiation rite associated with the deadly fire ants.Boys wear gloves on his hands, full of ants.It's incredibly dangerous, because even a single fire ant sting can cause anaphylactic shock and subsequent death.Gloves held for ten minutes and the procedure is repeated twenty times.According to legend, eaten a few hundred ants, can serve as an antidote.In addition, before the rite guys adhere to a strict diet, and ants collect themselves for the rite.
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Hamer tribe famous for the bloody ritual beating of girls, which is a rite of passage for young men, and love games.In the morning the girl drinking ritual drink similar to beer, and lead dances.Alcohol, heat and constant movement helps them to enter into a trance state.Girls strongly provoke guys as long as the ritual beatings begin immediately.The boys beat the girls rods, sometimes causing a terrible injury.The more scars left on the girl after the ceremony, the more it is beautiful and desirable premium for guys.After this ritual, the boys become men, and thus can get married and go hunting.
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All boys Nuer tribe in Africa, to take part in the life of the tribe, must undergo a special rite of initiation.Previously, it took 17, but now, due to the hostilities, the age of adulthood was reduced to 12 years.During the ceremony on the head boys make circular cuts, which will eventually turn into a rough ugly scars.After this procedure, the boy should live a few months away from the tribe, and on his return to the tribe father gives him a symbol of courage - the bow, harpoon and a bull from his herd.
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Some Australian and Pacific nations conducted initiation ritual symbolizing the transformation from chrysalis to butterfly.Because young people have done some sort of "larvae": he glued his fingers and lips, ears and closed their eyes, threw out on the shore, where they lay for a long time and just listened to the roar of the waves rolls.And the water came out predok- "lizard" and a huge knife separated the "germ" of each other, "cut through" their eyes, ears, mouth, etc.The same knife they did circumcision, how would "end up" the process of birth of the person sharing the "creatures" on men and women.Then he taught them to make fire, cook, gave spear boomerang supplied each churinga (the guardian of the soul) ...
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