Chapter 375: Praying for Rain
Chu Ye looked carefully for a while and felt that these Maasai people should use the two lionesses to sacrifice to their gods. The appearance of these two gods made it impossible for people to imagine what kind of gods they represented.
However, Chu Ye looked at the two gods carefully and felt that one of the two gods should probably refer to the sky or the sun. Because his head is a circle woven with branches, it should symbolize the sun or space.
The head of another god is some curved branches. It looks like the moon or clouds.
In short, the appearance of these two gods is similar to the sky and clouds. Probably the Maasai people want to use this method to pay homage to the gods and pray for wind and rain!
After watching it for a while, Chu Ye roughly understood what these people wanted to do. Primitive people like this have always lived the most primitive tribal life.
The Maasai people have been living on the African savannah for thousands of years. They do not interact with modern people, and all their lifestyles are still the same as they were thousands of years ago.
But there is one thing that is different from the primitive tribal peoples we imagine. Generally speaking, we feel that the life of primitive tribal peoples is hunting and gathering.
Hunting and gathering are the most primitive way of life. Humans may have continued this way for tens of thousands of years before entering the nomadic life and farming life.
Although the Maasai people still live a primitive life for thousands of years, they are not a people who make a living by hunting. Their livelihood mainly depends on bison. Moreover, what they raised was not buffalo, but a kind of ox.
The daily life of the Maasai people mainly consists of drinking milk and cow blood. Even if it is beef, I don’t eat it often. I only eat it during festivals.
Although the Maasai people live with wild animals all day long, they rarely hunt. According to legend, the Maasai people's hunting of lions is just a ritual for them.
The rite of passage for men among the Maasai people is to hunt a lion alone. This is just their custom. In the belief of the Maasai people, there is no such thing as hunting wild animals.
The Maasai people have always coexisted peacefully with the animals on the prairie. They never take the initiative to hunt wild animals. They will only consider hunting wild animals when their cattle are attacked by wild animals.
However, this year's situation is a bit special. The rainy season that was supposed to come has been delayed. The wild animals on the prairie are seriously threatened by drought. If it never rains, the wild animals on the prairie will not know how to survive.
The continuous drought not only makes it impossible for wild animals to survive, but also the brave Maasai people are also threatened by drought.
The Maasai people make a living by grazing, but the ongoing drought has left their cattle with no grass to eat. If it doesn't rain, they won't be able to survive on this prairie.
For the wild animals living here, everything can only be left to fate. If God doesn't rain, then there is nothing anyone can do.
However, for the Maasai people living here, they cannot fight against God. However, they always have to think of some ways to 'move' God. I hope God can bring a heavy rain to save the people here.
What the Maasai people do now is pray for rain. On that boulder, they made two monster-like things weaved from big branches. They were actually two gods, one was the god of the sky and the other was the god of rain. They hope to make it rain heavily in their own way.
The reason why they use lions to sacrifice these two gods is because in their belief, lions are monsters on the grassland. They will not hunt other animals, but there are some exceptions for lions, and they will hunt some lions from time to time.
This may be because lions are the dominant animals on the savannah. With his strong strength, he can compete with the Maasai people here.
Because when lions are very hungry, they may hunt the cattle raised by the Maasai people. Because of this, there is still some hatred between the Maasai people and lions.
This time, the Maasai people used two lions to sacrifice their gods because they felt that lions are monsters on the prairie and can be hunted, while other animals are not monsters and cannot be hunted.
The reason why young Maasai men choose to hunt lions as part of their coming-of-age ceremony is because in their belief, lions are monsters on the savannah and can be hunted at will.
Now to sacrifice their gods, of course they have to use monsters like lions. Because they feel that in this way, the gods will be more moved. 'It will rain soon.
Chu Ye and Feifei hid in the bushes and watched the Maasai people wearing red cloaks on the top of the mountain performing a ceremony to worship the gods.
The two lionesses had placed them on two piles of dry firewood. The bodies of these two lionesses were used to worship two gods. Of course, the bodies of these two lionesses will also be burned. Because we want to offer sacrifices to the gods, of course we can’t just put the lions here. They must be burned before they can be considered as gifts to the gods.
As soon as Feifei saw the two lionesses, she said angrily, 'Boss, these Maasai people are so hateful. They even used lions to sacrifice to the gods. They are deliberately trying to make things difficult for us, the lion tribe! '
After hearing Feifei's words, Chu Ye said angrily, "Yes, these Maasai people are so hateful." There are so many animals on the prairie that cannot be used to sacrifice their gods. Why should we use lions to sacrifice their gods? '
Seeing that Chu Ye agreed with her opinion, Feifei said angrily, "Boss, what should we do? Should we go directly and drive away these Maasai people?" These people are our enemies. Do we want to avenge the two dead lionesses? '
After hearing Feifei's words, Chu Ye said helplessly, "Feifei, do you think we dare to rush over now?" Didn't you see that there are many Maasai people here, all holding spears in their hands? '
Some of the young Maasai people are called warriors. These warriors were specially designed to deal with wild beasts that dared to attack them.
Young Maasai men are generally the warriors who protect the village. These warriors are divided into low-level warriors and high-level warriors. Low-level samurai are generally young people who have just passed their coming-of-age ceremony.
