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Episode:
11
Day:
29

African Folklore

Participants

Today's challenge is gonna test how well you remember the African story I'm about to tell you but first, here's what you'll have to do. We've set up seven gated stations. Only one person at a time can be there, so make sure you close the gate behind you. Each station has a question and two ostrich eggs. Break Opening for the correct answer, you'll find a piece of colored leather. Wrap that around the same color on your staff. If you answer incorrectly. You'll find nothing not to try again later. The aides will be replaced after each person leaves the station. First person back in the circle with five of the seven questions answered correctly and five pieces of leather on their staff wins Immunity.
Okay, story time. Today I'm going to tell you about Samburu warrior.
When a baby boy is born, his destiny is already planned. To celebrate the birth, a goat is sacrificed. The women of the tribe eat the meat of goat, because the women are the caretakers of the tribe. For the first four days after the birth, the mother drinks only the blood of the goat. Around the age of 9 or 10, the boy has his first rite of passage. This is the removal of his two bottom middle teeth. Because if he were to get sick, they need you to get food or water into his body. They use gap from the two missing teeth as a way to do that. It's also around this time that he begins the practice of piercing his ears. This is the first cosmetic enhancement. His next rite of passage is a circumcision and that begins with a journey to find gum from a special tree. Could take him as long as 45 days, during which he can only subsist on the generosity of others, the food that he gets along the way. Once he's completed his mission, a date for the circumcision is set. Dates are scheduled based on the new moon. The tribe will wait for any even numbered day of moonlight, the 8th day, considered the best day in preparation for his circumcision, shaves his head. But most important aspect to the circumcision is the warrior's reaction. If during the circumcision he flinches in any way, he and his family are forever shamed. After eight years of warriorship, he's eligible for marriage. Tribal custom demands that he continued to have kids until he has a boy, even if that means taking another wife and another. Last step, death. Once a warrior is close to death, he is taken into the bush with another warrior and left to die. Once he dies, fellow warriors shaved their heads out of respect and his body is left for the hyenas.

1. DURING HIS LONG SEARCH FOR THE GUM OF THE SPECIAL TREE, A WARRIOR SUBSISTS SOLELY ON:
a. COWS BLOOD
b. FOOD PROVIDED BY OTHERS
2. Exact question not shown. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING TO HAPPEN WHEN A WARRIOR DIES?
a. THE OTHER WARRIORS SHAVE THEIR HEADS (Correct)
b. HE IS TAKEN FROM CAMP AND LEFT IN THE BUSH FOR THE HYENAS TO EAT
3. WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT TO THE CIRCUMCISION?
a. FINDING THE SPECIAL GUM ON THE TREE
b. THE REACTION OF THE WARRIOR (Correct)
4. WHAT MUST BE DONE WHEN A CVHILD IS BORN?
a. FOR 4 DAYS THE MOTHER MUST ONLY DRINK THE BLOOD OF A COW
b. A GOAT MUST BE SACRAFICED (Correct)
5. WHAT IS THE BEST DAY FOR ANY RITUAL?
a. ANY EVEN-NUMBERED DAY OF MOONLIGHT
b. 8TH DAY OF MOONLIGHT (Correct)
6. Exact question not shown.
a. REMOVAL OF THE TWO BOTTOM TEETH
b. PIERCING OF THE EAR

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