Video: Cannibals living in trees: the Korowai tribe in Papua New Guinea
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Just a few decades ago, aborigines from Korowai tribe did not even realize that, besides them, there were other people on earth. Rumor has it that they killed and ate foreigners who dared to come to their territory, not caring too much to get in touch with the civilized world. Perhaps this to the savages who live in the trees, quite comfortable and without uninvited guests.
The traditions of the Papuans living in Papua New Guinea, can cause bewilderment among most readers, because they live by completely different rules than we do. Houses are built on banyan trees at an altitude of 10 to 50 m, they believe that in this way they will be able to protect themselves from evil spirits (and at the same time from wild animals and from neighboring tribes). Inside each dwelling, at least two hearths will be equipped - separately for men and for women with children. True, polygamy flourishes among the Korowai, so there may be several hearths in the house.
Korowai feed on flour from the trunks of a sago tree, sometimes men hunt game, a favorite local delicacy is insect larvae, the only source of protein. Hunters wield bows and spears with stone or bone tips, since the Bronze Age did not come in this tribe, the Papuans do not know about the existence of metal. The farm uses knives made from sharpened animal bones.
It is noteworthy that the average life expectancy of the Korowai people is only 30 years, while men live less than women. They die, as they say, forever young and forever drunk. The local natives have a strange tradition - to smoke all their free time. Moreover, children can become addicted to the addiction from 5-6 years old, women also do not hesitate to smoke.
Korowai do not wear clothes, they wear only fancy jewelry, women can occasionally flaunt a loincloth, men - a case for a causal place (while in the collection of a real macho there are two such cases - everyday and ceremonial, on the way out).
The funeral rite in this tribe is also interesting: the bodies of brave warriors and the most respected elders are mummified, but the rest are wrapped in palm leaves and taken to the forest to be eaten by wild animals.
There is another tribe in the world, whose representatives conduct shocking rituals, live near cremation places, meditate among corpses, eat human flesh and send curses in order to gain spiritual enlightenment. Aghori hermits from Varanasi - friendly cannibal corpse eaters.
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