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| They are making bubbling medicine
(ibekile). The doctor is telling the ancestors that they are going to the
kraal. |
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| In front of the kraal they
ask the ancestors permission to go into the kraal with the medicine and
the traditional beer (umqomboti). They tell the ancestors everything is
fine. For the ritual the goat is not called goat but inkomo (cow) to show
respect. |
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| They put the medicine (ubulawu)
on the goat and start slaughtering. The blood has to go in the dish. On
the wall in de room of the doctors is the skirt of the doctor made of animal
skin and is called imitika. |
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| The piece of meat (umshwamo)
is for the man alone, nobody else can eat it. No plates are used, but leaves
of a special tree (umqwashu). The women are waiting outside the kraal for
the pots to cook. |
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| The brother of the man put
the goat's gall on his body. He start to eat his meat. The doctor is giving
directions to the people in the kraal: "Eat it all, it is yours, don't
cut for the people." |
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| On the fire outside the kraal
is the bread. The man is drinking the traditional beer. The women and children
in the kraal are family of the man. |
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| The brother pours brandy for
the ancestors and for the man. In the far corner of the kraal men are cleaning
the amatumbu (inside) of the goat. |
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| In the pot is the lungs of
the goat. The doctor is singing and dancing, others are clapping. |
amagqira
rituals 
