For example, the Maasai
Only veo nothing, only the flame that heats a pot with milk. It is very hot and the narrow cockpit is full of flies. The low light entering through two small holes in the walls of straw and droppings also let a bit of air. We sat. Wilson looks at them and says in his language "are journalists who are interested in meeting you, in how you live ". We are in a Masai house, far from a tourist town as ordered, where houses have agreed to teach their (Also here, where no dances scheduled, we had to pay something to allow us to enter).
Jedi knights seem, warlords in the old style
It is impossible not to have a fascination with the people of fierce warriors. Before my encounter with them, in one of their villages, I saw happen with her long red and blue blankets, unmistakable stamp of a man walked without fear in the middle of the savannah. Jedi knights seem, warlords in the old style.
"There are other tribes with traditions and surprising toughest Maasai", Wilson tells me. I hear and understand a meru, a place that is no difference in them, but the image is everything and the picture of this tribe gives them a place in the mythical African visual.
I tried everything I could understand the Maasai- I made a thousand questions, I talked to everyone I met on the trip and looked always straight, almost hungry, every time I passed their villages, herds, motorcycles, Bikes, markets .... Interested me, much, enough to get lost in the Serengeti looking rocks where their sacred paintings.
The writings and words belong to those who read or hear
I wrote a long article in The World, that some comments, I think he understood the opposite of what was intended, but the writings and words belong to those who read or hear, so take it for good. Now I have those wonderful things there came. Small reasons and stories I approached something the Maasai.
Like for example that the Maasai do not bury their dead because they believe it hurts the sacred land. Die, put them in leather bags and leave the corpse out of town, away. At three months back to see what happened. If a hyena ate it is that it is a bad person. If you ate a vulture is that it is in paradise.
Them in mass to eat fish because they are ellos Serpientes
Like for example that the Maasai do not eat fish because for them are snakes. Nor eat vegetables, just some very bitter herbs that put the meat and used as medicines. They also eat the leaves of the acacias, but their diet comes from their cows: milk, flesh and blood. Addition, Maasai men and women never eat together.
Eg, they do not kill or hunt wild animals unless necessary. Only they would for defense or religion. The Masai, Dios les live show of the Ngai, own all the cows in the world. The only wild animal if you can eat is the Eland, that they were old wild cows.
Masai women shave their hair is zero and the men left to imitate mane lions
As such they feel such respect for the lions, to those previously hunted with spears boys to be considered men (governments now prohibit), that depends on them aesthetics. Masai women shave their hair is zero and the men are left to mimic the male hair and female.
Like for example Ngai, his God, was heaven and earth together. Then he got angry and separated the sky from the earth. The Masai believe that it is the land, why not cultivate, because it would damage their God.
Like for example the "ficus sycamore" is their sacred tree. There make sacrifices to fix small family or village affairs, but when elongated drought go to your holy mountain, Oldonyo le Ngai, a volcano still active, and sacrificed oxen.
Go to your holy mountain, Oldonyo le Ngai, a volcano still active, and sacrificed oxen
Like for example that ablation is practiced but is prohibited and is one of the most permissive societies in sexual matters. Men leave their wives to have relationships with other masais when they go through their camps and they may also have extramarital consensual.
Like for example that within the Ngorongoro Crater is a tomb sacred to the Maasai dotoga despite desecrated not conquer and drive out an old enemy called Mangiati, which means "the enemy respected".
An old enemy called Mangiati, que significa «el enemigo respetado»
Eg, most people use mobile, some have moto, studies, work as guides, hotels, speak languages, get drunk, women marry Masai, sell souvenirs on the beaches of Zanzibar, open their villages, dance for tourists or dislike removing stretch their lobes or vanes, teeth, to be more beautiful.
All these is what I learned during a week-long trip looking than they were, eg, the Maasai.
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First Travel
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In addition to its for its peculiar image, Maasai imaginary part of white on Africa, almost more than other groups also known, as the Zulus, by almost permanent presence in all the accounts and stories of expeditions by the black continent… Who has grown following Livingstone, Stanley, Burton, Baker o Speke, can not escape the fascination with those Jedi warriors (Fantastic comparison, certainly!). We would have liked to read that long article was understood backwards…
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Lydia
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I see you've soaked everything you've been, you've been all the time with all five senses alert, so they do not escape anything and you've been kind enough to share it. I have learned many things about the Maasai and certainly, I also believe that part of our imagination about Africa.
The images I've loved.
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Javier Brandoli
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Thank you both!
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