Chapter 41 [Celebrations]
The shaman's sacrifice is in the traditional Indian language, which is complex and long-pitched, and sounds like singing very beautifully. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info plus the accompaniment of traditional Indian instruments, it is as lively as a concert. Don't look at the status of wizards in the tribe is second only to the chief, and is respected and loved by all the tribesmen, but wizards are not for everyone.
Without a good physical strength, it is impossible to complete the sacrificial activities of such a major festival as the calf birth festival, why do you say that! That's because the Feast of the Calf Nativity is a welcome to a new life. The sorcerer's re-sacrifice began to jump and jump as soon as it began, and a very large sacrificial prayer was sung aloud.
And there is no pause in the middle of the song, and the live mascot white female bison has given birth to a healthy calf before the sacrifice can be completed. If the cow has a difficult birth or has a difficult birth, it is very common for a sacrifice to take several hours. Moreover, Lefou's own uncle Eric is in his forties, and it is still unknown whether he can keep up with the physical strength of high-intensity sacrificial activities for several hours.
Fortunately, this year, the little chief of Tolefour was blessed, and just more than half an hour after the sacrifice began, the live mascot white female bison entered the state of production. After tossing for more than 20 minutes, a bull roar resounded through the heavens and the earth, and finally gave birth to a very healthy bull calf. When the calf was born, the altar surrounded by more than 20,000 people boiled like a powder magazine exploding.
All the tribesmen jumped and danced, singing and dancing to celebrate the arrival of a new life. Because the more smoothly the birth of the live mascot white female bison, it proves that the more smoothly the cow breeds this year, the more healthy calves will be produced, and after these calves are slaughtered, they will bring a lot of income to the tribe.
After the cows had given birth, some old or high-ranking Indian women would carry the new linen. Come to the altar to wipe the body of the new life, and then let the chick drink the colostrum, at which point the sacrifice is basically completed. The more than 20 strong men who carried the white bison to the sacrificial site will use all their strength to carry the white bison mother and son back to the bison valley and be properly settled.
How many hours is there until lunch after the sacrifice is over? In addition, the Indians could sing and dance, and it was impossible to sit empty for hours. So some young men and women who were full of expressive desire began to search for music and dance, and then the tribesmen with good voices sang a song on the microphone. Those who sing well are given a round of applause, and those who sing badly are booed. And those who don't sing well will not feel ashamed, everyone is happy and no one will take it seriously.
Of course, the high altar will also be demolished, and then Lefu will bring his wife Marianne, as well as the high-ranking people of the tribe and ordinary tribesmen to mix and laugh. I don't know when it was, I don't know who it was, but the slogan shouted first wanted Marianne, the number one hostess of the tribe, to perform a show. This kind of request passed on ten times and passed on for hundreds, and within tens of seconds, the entire event site began to shout Marianne's name.
The common people were so enthusiastic that Marianne, the lady of the chief, was even more embarrassed, and sang a cheerful traditional Indian ballad with a microphone, which provoked applause, but the joke was moderate, and everyone could ask the hostess to come to a song. None of them dared to let the chief Lefu perform a show, the chief is the male head of the entire tribe and needs to maintain a state of majesty, and the chief's wife is a female head of the family to maintain a state of closeness to the people, and it is understandable that each has a stall.
Everyone sang and danced, very lively, and a few hours later, with the order of Lefu, he personally led the tribesmen to the open-air restaurant to enjoy delicious food. This time, the dinner was done in a Western split system, with the chef serving the prepared food on large trays and placing them on the table. Then Lefu was the first to take the plate and add up the food and put it on his own plate.
The second was Marianne, the third was Eric, the prime minister of the tribe, and then the top of the tribe. Then the eldest ordinary people of the tribe were some old grandmothers and grandfathers, then the children under the age of sixteen of the tribe, and finally the adults and young people came forward with plates and picked up their favorite delicacies with tongs.
Thanks to Lefou's generosity, the number of dishes at this tribal meeting was more than double that of the previous year, including not only barbecued lamb and chicken wings, but also delicious seafood. In particular, everyone will get a lobster that is more than 20 centimeters long, and everyone will have a lobster regardless of gender, age or age, which is a big cost you can imagine.
The rest of the food is as much as you can eat on your stomach, but you are not allowed to waste it. Therefore, everyone will eat and drink with their bellies open, and after taking the perfect food, all the tribesmen will sit around their own family tables to eat meat and drink wine. Women will pour wine or beer on the table to the men in the house, and there are also some female Indians who drink a lot of alcohol, and a large family sits together, pushes the glass and changes the lamp to enjoy the atmosphere of the food scene, which is called a lively.
Someone might say that Lefou, as a chief, shouldn't say a couple of words before eating? Give a live talk to add a sense of presence. Or if you look to the future and change a big cake for the tribal people to satisfy their hunger, then I tell everyone that Lefu will not do that. Although the Indians respect tradition, respect the status of the chief, and respect the decisions made by the chief, the Indians do not have so many hypocritical faces, do not talk at length, and eat when they should eat, drink when they should drink.
After more than an hour, after eating and drinking, all the tribesmen will come to the left side of the central square. Then they spread their own blankets on the ground and sit on the floor as a family unit, and the male head of each family holds the number plate that has just been drawn out in his hand. The numbers on this numbered plate are unique, and the family will nervously wait for the draw to arrive.
Last time, one of the main programs of the Bison Tribe Calf Birth Festival was the lottery by the tribal chief Lefu himself. 100 lucky winners will be selected to win 100 cows that are about to give birth, which has been a repertoire for hundreds of years. It was also the most important group activity, when the scene was quiet, the eight young people who were selected carried a large lottery machine came to the front of the crowd and placed it in the open space.
This large machine is similar to the lottery machine in the TV, except that instead of ping pong balls, it contains more than 4,000 very small glass balls. The number four thousand represents the total number of families of members of the entire bison tribe. Then everyone must ask why there are 5,000 tables at the dinner party, since the total number of bison tribes is 4,000, this number is not right.
That's because the bison tribe practiced polygamy, and the smallest number of family members would reach seven or eight people. There are even tens or twenty people in the world, and it is impossible to sit at a table and eat, so there is a number of 5,000 tables.
The total number of ordinary families in the bison tribe does not exceed 4,000, so there are only 4,000 glass balls with corresponding numbers. The tribal chief Lefu personally drew 100 numbers, and then announced the winning number in public, which is almost very exciting and fun to buy a lottery ticket to grab the prize. So for more than 100 years, this project has been retained, and it has never been cold until today.