@ Impunity

This is just simply a way of 'crying' Some people roll on the ground,somersault etc...

Different mourning styles for different cultures






Chunga mali yako...

@Wendz,

What?.....Compensate?....that 'crying' alone is half the story.........By the time they are through with burrying,any cow left standing would be so lucky.As for tsingokho,it's a massacre.


God gives,mugikuyu takes.

We are talking of a region where food is never a problem here. You seem to be forgeting this.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing posibility.

sober

food a problem or not.......

how does destruction relate to mourning?


don't worry....be happy

@Wendz

Culture is beautiful,and it is a way of life just like religion. If you begin to question religion or culture...it crumbles. We are human and each culture is unique and identifies us. Slashing bananas,trees,bushes etc,as a way of mourning just shows how deeply hurt we are by a particular death.

My Nigerian friends do similar things,it is not just constrained to Nyanza / Western provinces. It is African. Dont question it so much,it will die off slowly as the land we posess gets smaller and less productive




Chunga mali yako...

In the past this ceremony was performed to honour a departed hero. It is the greatest honour reserved only for the bravest warriors in the community. The ceremony is a simulation of a war scene,banana trees representing the enemy. The age mates of the departed go through the combat motions as artfully as possible limiting the damage to banana stems and trees. But malicious elements do infiltrate the ceremony. Some families now seek protection from the provincial administration especially if they have a precious crop in the shamba.

Guka killer.

I'm not familiar with the culture either but surely there must be a support system from the community for those left behind especially if everything they had that was of value has been destroyed