English | English Hunters, laden with meat, arrive in the village and are feted by the women. They are given water from ostrich-eggshell containers. A female initiate is led ceremonially from her isolation hut to "see" the meat. A hunter gives her teacher a piece, part of which is ritually roasted, sprinkled with scrapings from two medicines suspended in a bundle around her neck and fed to her; the rest is cooked. While chewing it, she spits on her teacher's hand who, with this saliva, massages the initiate's stomach and throat thus releasing her from this meat taboo. |