Video: Zebu dance with people. Savica: Madagascar Rodeo
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Zebu - sharp-horned and humpbacked, but very charming gobies that live in India and Africa, in particular - in Madagascar. They differ from their European relatives only in appearance, and so - everything is the same: they work for Madagascarians, give them milk and meat, dress them in their skins … And they also help to play sports. Zebu - an integral part of the national Madagascar sport and entertainment, which is called savika, but in fact is dance with the bulls.
Savika is a kind of rodeo practiced by representatives of the Betsileo people. About one and a half million black Betsileo inhabit the highlands of Madagascar. Like many other African peoples, they have not forgotten their adolescent initiation rites. And if in Indochina, to receive the proud title of "man", a teenager must put on a glove seated with ant stings, and in New Guinea - make scarring in the form of crocodile scales, then in Betsileo one needs to "just" ride an angry zebu.
Zebu Rodeo always gathers a maximum of spectators: all the villagers come to watch the daredevils ride the bull-calves. To saddle a zebu, you need to very quickly approach it from the side, grab it by the hump and jump onto your back. It is very difficult, but holding on is even more difficult: the very name of rodeo comes from the word masavika - "to hold on".
Betsileo emphasize that their national sport is not the brutal killing of bulls, as in some Spain, but, on the contrary, an attempt to demonstrate friendship with the horned zebu, the patrons of Madagascar, depicted on the national flag. It turns out that Africans are more civilized than Europeans!
Savika is dangerous not for bulls, but for people - broken arms and legs are not uncommon here (although the game with death in the "Angola" prison is still a long way off). It involves not only young men who want to be called men, but also all the daredevils of the tribe: dancing with zebu arrange both at weddings and on big holidays. Those who ride a zebu well are not rewarded with anything: why reward someone who is respected by everyone?
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