Chapter 399 The heroic Gemu
'No, you have to face what you have to face. Even if I run away, it will be of no use. If these Maasai people come to settle accounts with him, they might make a big fuss at the Tourism Bureau. If the director runs away, the guilt will be even greater. 'Bliss thought about it and decided to stay and see what these Marseilles wanted to do?
So, Bliss stayed where he was, watching these Masai people, holding spears, striding towards him.
Soon, these large groups of Maasai people arrived in front of Brees.
Brees looked at these people and felt anxious.
However, what should be faced must still be faced. So, Brees walked boldly in front of these Maasai people.
Walking in front of these Maasai people are the elders of these Maasai people. Among them, an older senior elder is the overall leader of these Maasai people.
The Maasai leader is called Gemu. He is a thin man with gray hair, probably in his seventies. However, he is still physically strong and an old man with a bright spirit.
Bliss saw Gemu at a glance, and he was relatively familiar with this old man. After all, when he went to persuade the Maasai people these days, he basically dealt with this old man.
Although Gemu is old, he is over seventy years old. But he was in good spirits, his eyesight was clear and his ears were not deafened, and he walked with a breath of wind, just like a young man.
You must know that when Gemu was young, he was very powerful among the Maasai people. He once hunted a male lion by himself. This male lion was still a powerful lion king. Many male lions were defeated by this one. A big and strong lion king.
However, with his heroic spirit and superb hunting skills, Gemu single-handedly challenged this lion king and actually killed this lion king.
The Maasai people generally do not compete with lions. Although they live on the prairie every day, they do not make a living by hunting. They are nomadic people and make a living by herding. They ate beef and drank milk and blood.
However, there are two situations where the Maasai people will hunt lions.
The first is that when young Maasai men reach the age of eighteen, they have to undergo a coming-of-age ceremony. This ritual requires a person to hunt a lion. Only when you succeed in hunting can you truly become an adult man.
In fact, the Maasai people do this not to eat lion meat. In fact, even if they hunted lions, they would not eat lion meat. They almost did not eat the meat of wild animals, only the meat of their own cattle.
The Maasai hunt lions just to show their bravery. Because the Maasai people also have a strict hierarchical system. Men generally have to go through the coming-of-age ceremony. After that, they become low-level warriors, high-level warriors, low-level elders, and high-level elders. These are some ways of progress.
Therefore, the Maasai people hunt lions basically to show their bravery and then improve their status.
The second is that when the lions attack their herd and kill the cattle they raise, of course they will fight back.
Usually at this time, the warriors among the Maasai people perform. If there is a warrior who can defeat the Lion King at this time, his status can be improved.
The current leader of the Maasai people, Gemu, not only improved his status through the second method, but eventually became the general leader of these hundreds of Maasai people.
Because there are two seasons every year in the prairie, the dry season and the rainy season. During the rainy season, both the Maasai people and wild animals have a lot of food, so there is no need to worry about food shortages.
But during the dry season, both the Maasai people and wild animals face the problem of hunger. Because the Maasai people make a living by herding. But during the dry season on the prairie, there is no green grass.
Without green grass, the cattle raised by the Maasai people will not be able to find grass to eat, and they will not be able to continue grazing. At this time, the Maasai people will continue to wander on the prairie, looking for places where there may be pasture.
However, on the prairie at this time, life was not only difficult for the Maasai people, but also for wild animals.
Wildebeest and zebra, the two most abundant herbivores, migrate from the Serengeti savanna in the southeast to the Masai Mara National Park in the northwest during the dry season. This migration takes most of the year, and they have to wait until the rainy season on the Serengeti comes before migrating back from the northwest.
Therefore, during the dry season for most of the year, it was a disaster for many carnivores on the prairie. Many carnivores starved to death because they had no food to eat.
In the face of this extremely harsh struggle for survival, some "tragic" things will happen in many lion groups. Many female lions will directly eat their newborn lion cubs in order to survive.
Although this kind of behavior is incomprehensible to humans, I feel that these female lions are so cruel. Why do they want to eat their own babies? Why do they have no maternal love at all.
However, people who think this way must be those who don’t know much about lions. They only look at the problem from a human perspective.
In fact, even for us humans, in those difficult years of life in ancient times, cruel things like exchanging children for food did not happen.
Survival is the same for humans and wild animals. Humans can do some incredible things in order to survive, let alone lions who are beasts.
It is precisely because of the harsh life in the savannah during the dry season that it leads to conflicts and struggles between lions and Maasai people.
In order to survive during the dry season, lions can take risks and attack the Maasai cattle. In fact, the lions also know that if they do this, they will inevitably be counterattacked by the Maasai people.
But the lions have to do this in order to survive. They know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer to go to the tiger mountains. During the dry season, the lions sometimes attack the Maasai cattle.
So, at this time, it is time for the young warriors among the Maasai people to show off. They will punish these lions on behalf of their tribe. And if any Maasai man can hunt down a lion that has attacked a herd of cattle, he will obviously become a hero among these Maasai people.
In this way, Gemu continuously improved his status among the Maasai people, and became the senior elder of the Maasai people and the overall leader of these Maasai people.
