Hello my most wonderful people
I'm here with another content that is sure going to thrill you and I hope it doesn't scare you again 😁😁, but it's actually based on my people's TRADITIONAL BELIEFS and I'm sure it may thrill you, stay tuned.
I'm not sure I need to mention where I'm from over and over again, but for the sake of those Coming New, I'm from Kwale and this TRADITIONAL BELIEF I'm Sharing affects and relates to every Kwale person you know, I grew up in the village for about five years before coming to the city for greener pastures... Greener pastures for😁😁
Well there are so many BELIEFS AND PRACTICES that's really surprising that my people engage in one of them is:
- No snail eating
- Crocodile is worshipped
- No cocoyam eating
I'll talk about one for today,
I guess some of you have watched some of these documentaries on TV where they show Aqua life (CROCODILE) and the size of some are actually bigger than your imagination and scares some of us. Well, in my place we have the ones bigger than what your eyes has seen on TVs... Reasons because you don't dare kill one, even if you kill, you don't go just free
It dated back to story from the old,
where our fore fathers were in war and they were being chased by their enemies and they ran to a dead end (A RIVER) no where to go anymore... But to their greatest surprise something like big stones started lifting up from the river, behold it was the back of CROCODILES 🐊, not just one but the whole River was divided and a path was created for them to cross over (YOU THINKING OF THE RED SEA STORY RIGHT 🤔😁😁)
Well it happened that they crossed successfully but out of fear, but immediately all of them crossed the river, the CROCODILES 🐊 went back into the water and they were free from their enemies, and that was truly how they escaped and their clan was saved.
So from that very onset they decided that it should be worshipped and they all called it (NNE ENYI) "which means our mother".
They set up a special day that it should be served and guess what during the celebration, They must kill a COW🐄, and it must be shared into two parts, and guess who chooses first ?... The CROCODILES 🐊, how do you know they've collected... After The meat is shared, they tell Dem (ANYI AE KAE TER OO) "which means we are done sharing oo"... Imediately ants 🐜 are going to gather one of the meats and you know that is theirs. In few minutes they'll start coming out to carry the meats into the river.
And the remaining part is prepared for the rest of the people present there to eat.
And when a woman delivers it comes to visit the baby also, and songs of enchantment will be sang before they'll go (THE CROCODILE). The scary part is that if you are an indigen who has left home for long or you were birthed outside of the village. When you come visiting and you make a statement that you've not seen the CROCODILES 🐊 before, guess what? You'll wake up to see it lying cross your door step and they won't go until you that called it will come see it and tell it that you've seen it, then songs of enchantment will be sang before they'll go.
Mistakenly your fish trap catches it, and it dies, you will give it a befitting burial. It's a must else it will hold you, even non indigens that were hiding to kill it and sell it outside the community, they were held spiritually and their tongues were coming out almost touching the ground (BIG MOMMY CONFIRMED THIS STATEMENT). They had to serve for them...
And lastly as an indigen you don't dare kill, eat or watch where they are killing and eating it, if you come across them, you are to buy it from them and free it, or bury it if they've killed it already.
I don't know how and why it works this way but it really does, but it's mostly for those who strongly believes in it that is why you will hear of our neighboring village (THE OROGU PEOPLE) if you visit their community you have IGUANAS strolling around freely like you see normal fowl and goats move about.
I feel it should be abolished though, because those things can actually affect children spiritually and it can be the source of problems in some persons lives because of oats and covenants made by their forefathers.
This is where we'll call it a day and I do hope to hear from you too, reviews and contributions are accepted.
WILL YOU WANT TO VISIT MY COMMUNITY AND EXPERIENCE THE TREAT? Just be truthful
