Chapter 955 954. Sacred Tradition (4/5)

Chapter 955 954. Sacred Tradition (45)

The relationship between the lion hunter and the chief is very bad, and the grievances and hatred between the two parties must be more than that.

However, it was not easy for Li Du to ask, and the lion hunter stopped talking about these things, so he changed the topic cooperatively.

This time when he comes to the Zulu tribe, he will attend a dinner party, and there will be a lively war dance performance. Starting tomorrow, the lion hunter will take him to participate in the tribe's hunting activities and go hunting in the wilderness.

But in the evening, the lion hunter went out and came back with a mysterious smile on his face, and said: "Tomorrow we will not go hunting, push back one day, tomorrow you can see the sacred ceremony of our Zulu people. "

"What sacred ceremony?" Li Du asked.

The lion hunter did not answer, but said with a smile: "You must have never experienced it before. Believe me, you will be surprised tomorrow."

Beginning in the evening, many men and women gathered in an open space of the tribe. They were dressed brightly and smiled brightly. They sang and danced when they stood on the open space.

Among them, the girls were still bare-chested, standing in front of the crowd and dancing vigorously. Lu Guan and others walked to the open space, and someone pulled them in and led them to dance together.

When the sun sets and the moon rises, a bonfire is lit in the open space, and flames rise into the sky, making hunting sounds under the wind, and rushing straight into the sky and fiery trees and silver flowers.

At this time, the people who had been dancing wildly stepped aside, and dozens of strong young men and women ran to the open space to officially start the war dance performance.

When performing the war dance, the young men were all wearing leopard-print clothes, which were not man-made in the city, but made of leopard skin.

Leopard skin is the symbol of the chiefs, but men can wear such clothes when dancing war dances. In addition, there are leopard-print leather skirts, and lion manes or furs of other beasts are tied on the calves.

Around the open space, there were people beating drums, howling, stamping their feet and clapping their hands. Following the drumbeats and rhythmic calls, the young people made various fighting postures.

At the beginning, their dancing was mainly flexible and jumping. After a while, someone brought swords, guns and sticks, and they began to wave their weapons, showing their majestic posture of using weapons to fight.

Watching the fierce battle dance, the Zulu people on the scene, including the lion hunters, all showed proud expressions. They held their heads high, clapped or cheered in cooperation, and cheered for the battle dance on the field.

Occasionally, the lion hunter turned around and asked, "How is it, Li, how is our war dance?"

Li Du applauded vigorously and said, "It's so cool, buddy. No wonder I heard that the Zulu people are the most heroic and warlike people in Africa!"

The lion hunter raised his head proudly and said: "Of course, we are the most heroic Africans, and we are the only African nation that has really defeated the British!"

The war he was talking about was the Zulu War, which took place in 1879, including the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the Battle of the Malay Peninsula, etc., and one of them was the Battle of Isandelwana. In this battle, the British army lost heavy.

At that time in Isandelwana, the British army was facing the attack of the Zulu people who were several generations behind them. Those almost naked warriors, holding the spear darts used by primitive humans for hunting, under the command of King Kai Zhiwayo Next, defeated the invaders equipped with the most advanced weapons at that time.

The final result of this war was the defeat of the Zulus, but that battle won them enough pride and self-confidence for this nation.

Later, Mandela led the South African black independence movement, and the Zulu people have always been the backbone of it, because they are the most confident South Africans.

What made Li Du and others depressed was that there was no food during the war dance. In order to show respect to the soldiers, everyone watched the performance attentively and no one was allowed to eat.

The battle dance started shortly after sunset and continued until late at night, when the young men and women were physically exhausted and their legs and feet were cramping.

At that time, it was finally time to eat, but Li Du was too hungry, so he would eat a fart!

In the end, he tasted the well-known braised leopard meat of the local tribe, and he hastily stuffed his stomach, and they went to the room arranged by the lion hunter to rest.

The next day's breakfast was quite rich, with polenta, grilled corn, steamed corn, sweet corn sauce, fried corn kernels, corn kernels with pate and so on.

In short, the locals' love for corn is all in the breakfast.

While eating breakfast, the lion hunter said: "Later, you can move freely. Around ten o'clock, go to the place where you watched the war dance last night. An ancient ceremony will be held there."

Li Du said: "It seems that you are looking forward to it? What kind of ceremony is this? Does it still need to be kept secret?"

The lion hunter blinked and said, "A ceremony that both men and women love."

His pretending to be mysterious successfully whetted the appetite of Li Du and his party. They wandered around the tribe for a while, and when they saw people gathering in the open space, Li Du and the others rushed there.

The people gathered were all boys and girls. The black faces were mature, and the Zulu people were always engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry and hunting. They were more exposed to the wind and sun, and they looked older.

Li Du couldn't judge the age of these men and women, he estimated that they would not be more than fifteen or sixteen years old.

After they arrived, an old lady with a lump of mud on her forehead came over, waved her hands vigorously and shouted, "Ta Lulu, Taba Lulu!"

"What do you mean?" Li Du wondered.

Lu Guan scratched his head and said, "It seems to be 'go away' in Zulu? I heard it a few times last night, but I didn't pay attention to it, so I'm not sure."

Li Du turned his head and saw the lion hunter smiling at them not far away, and there were some men beside him, all smiling at them.

Seeing this, Li Du knew that they were wiped out by the lion hunters!

He hurriedly led the people away, but the old lady reached out and grabbed Sophie, and started talking in a murmur. She didn't know what she was talking about, but her attitude was very kind.

The lion hunter said from the side: "Let Miss Sophie stay, you guys leave quickly, or you will be beaten!"

Li Du frowned and asked, "What's going on? You played us?"

The lion hunter laughed loudly: "No, no, an ancient sacred ceremony is really going to be held here to test the purity of boys and girls."

Li Du looked back at the girls in the distance, and there was an open space surrounded by a long cloth. He probably understood what the lion hunter meant, and asked in surprise, "There is such a thing?"

The lion hunter shrugged and said, "Perhaps you know that we Zulus have a tradition of offering sacrifices to the goddess. Now, what you see is this traditional ceremony."

How could Li Du know about such a tradition? The others didn't know, and were dumbfounded.

The lion hunter introduced them: "Goddesses and gods are the true gods that we Zulu people believe in. According to legend, if this goddess is not revered as she should be, she will attack humans with natural and man-made disasters. Human beings, especially women, must maintain a female body if they want to be blessed by it.”

Li Du shook his head and said, "If you really believe in this goddess, you shouldn't maintain the system of polygamy."

The lion hunter said nonchalantly: "So, this is a previous tradition, which was lost later, but it has been found again these years."