The Hamar tribe of Ethiopia where women beg to be whipped my men
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- Опубліковано 22 кві 2023
- “The Hamar tribe of Ethiopia where women beg to be whipped my men”
This women beg to be whipped by men, and guess what they enjoy it. The Hamar are known for their unique custom of "bull jumping," which initiates a boy into manhood. First, female relatives dance and invite whipping from men who have recently been initiated. This shows their support of the initiate, and their scars give them a say on who they marry.
Hamar people are a community inhabiting southwestern Ethiopia. They live in Hamer woreda, a fertile part of the Omo River valley. Ethiopia’s 2003 national census reported 46,532 people in this ethnic group, of whom 10,000 were urban inhabitants. 15,000 to 20,000 members of the Hamar make their living as successful cattle herders and farmers. They were hunters in the past, but the wild pigs and small antelopes have almost disappeared from the lands in which they live; and until 20 years ago, all ploughing or tilling of the soil was done by hand with digging sticks.
The pastoral polygamous people are well known for their unique rituals such as a cattle-leaping or bull-jumping ceremony that men go through in order to reach adulthood, whereupon young Hamar women get whipped to prove their love for their kinsmen. This ceremony often attracts neighbors and people foreign to their culture to witness it. It’s a very important ceremony to a Hamar men, because it’s the ceremony which qualifies him to marry, own cattle and have children. The timing of the ceremony is up to the man’s parents and happens after harvest. They have several days of feasting and drinking sorghum beer in preparation for the ceremony.
On the afternoon of the jump, the man’s female relatives demand to be whipped as part of the ceremony. The girls go out to meet the Maza, the ones who will whip them, and these is a group of men who have already jumped across the cattle, and live apart from the rest of the tribe, moving from ceremony to ceremony. The whipping appears to be consensual; the girls gather round and beg to be whipped on their backs. They don’t show the pain they feel and they say they’re proud of the scars. Women who refuses to join in are looked down upon and neglected, but young girls are discouraged from getting whipped.
One effect of this ritual whipping is to create a strong debt between the young man and his sisters. If they face hard times in the future, he’ll remember them because of the pain they went through at his initiation. Her scars are a mark of how she suffered for her brother.
As for the young man jumping over the cattle, before the ceremony, his head is partially shaved, he is rubbed with sand to wash away his sins, and smeared with dung to give him strength. Finally, strips of tree bark are strapped round his body in a cross, as a form of spiritual protection.
Meanwhile, the Maza and elders line up about 15 cows and castrated male cattle, which represent the women and children of the tribe. The cattle in turn are smeared with dung to make them slippery. To come of age, the man must jump across the line four times. If he falls it is a shame, but he can try again. If he is blind or lame he will be helped across the cattle by others. Only when he has been through this initiation rite can he marry the wife chosen for him by his parents, and start to build up his own herd. Once his marriage has been agreed upon he and his family are indebted to his wife's family for marriage payments amounting to 30 goats and 20 cattle.
At the end of the jump, he is blessed and sent off with the Maza who shave his head and make him one of their member. His kinsmen and neighbours decamp for a huge dance. It’s also a chance for large-scale flirting. The girls get to choose who they want to dance with and indicate their chosen partner by kicking him on the leg.
It doesn’t stop there. Wife beating is an accepted part of life rather than a taboo, and the convention is that a man will not generally tell his wife why she is being whipped. On the other hand, if a beating is severe then family or neighbours will step in; and after a couple have had two or three children, beating stops.
What do you think about this tribe and their traditional practices? Let me know in the comment section.
You have to wonder how some of these traditions came to be.
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Stone ages
It's fucked up.
Very interesting, I find this practice appalling, but who am I to say anything? It is what it is.
We could do with that male initiation ceremony here!
You’d be first😅
Awesome content. ❣️
But thank God for civilization 😂, people don’t have to go through all of this in the name of marriage, but that’s culture for you..😅 I must commend those ladies who don’t participate in the beating thing.
Thanks man✨
Wow! This is surprising
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Afrika is far away from 21th century.
And 21st century destroys our values 😢
interesting
Serious Nonsense
Msthweeew
I feel your pain
Beens and rice is good for you
In this modern time, can't they find some other means that are more romantic and less brutal, come on now traditionally lot of these human punishment are senseless and inhumane
Have they seen the wheel yet?
😅Yes. Tour vans
@@AfricaScope do they have a written language?
@@kevinkant6817 I’m sure they don’t
Such strict gender roles. It seems that there is no education about the gender spectrum over there. As a trans black person, I think I’m going to de-transition in protest.
No leave it the way it is. No need to poison their culture
Its their culture and kink leave them be
Barbaric!!! They need rescue. ... Arrant nonsense!