Unusual tribe in Papua New Guinea (13 photos). Tribes of New Guinea: Korowai are romantic cannibals who like to live in tree houses

Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation

Oryol State University

abstract

by discipline: "Culturology"

on this topic: Australian Aboriginal Culture and

Papuan New Guinea"

Performed:

1st year student, 3 groups

Melanesia, or the Black Isles, is New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Bismarck Archipelago, New Caledonia, Fiji, Santa Cruz Islands, Banks and many other smaller pieces of land. Their indigenous population consists of two large groups- Melanesians and Papuans.

The Melanesians live on the coast of New Guinea, while the Papuans live in the interior of the other large islands. Outwardly, they are unusually similar, but differ in languages. Although the Melanesian languages ​​are part of the large Malayo-Polynesian family, the people who speak them cannot communicate with each other. And the Papuan languages ​​are not only not related to any other languages ​​of the world, but very often even to each other.

In addition to the Melanesian and Papuan peoples, small pygmy tribes live in the inaccessible mountainous regions of New Guinea and on many large islands. However, their languages ​​have not yet been studied enough.

Inhabitant of Papua New Guinea in the ritual sorcerer's attire.

In the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, on the Bismarck archipelago and the northern part of the Solomon Islands, the state of Papua New Guinea is located. In the XVI century. these lands were discovered by the Portuguese. Since 1884, the territory was owned by Great Britain and Germany, and at the beginning of the 20th century. it was controlled by Australia. Although the country became independent in 1975, it is part of the Commonwealth and the formal head of state is the Queen of Great Britain. Copper, gold and zinc are mined in the country. They grow coffee, cocoa and coconut palm.

Papua New Guinea is often referred to as "an ethnographer's paradise, but any government's hell". This expression was coined by colonial officials, but it is no less true today. Why "paradise" is understandable: there are few places on Earth with such a variety of languages, customs and cultures. On the one hand - officials, businessmen, workers of the capital city of Port Moresby, wearing European clothes and educated. On the other hand, there are mountain tribes that have not left the Stone Age, waging war with each other and not understanding the language of people from the neighboring valley. They may welcome a visiting scientist, but kill a person from the nearest village. Therefore, for the government, this is "hell", because he has to "harness to the wagon" of the state system not only "ox and quivering doe", but also "swan, cancer and pike" to boot.

The country's government tried to reinforce in the minds of the Papuans and Melanesians that they belong to the same people - hire Papua New Guinea. For this, you need first of all mutual language, because the number of languages ​​in the country has not been calculated by anyone. In fact, there was a common language, moreover, understood throughout Melanesia. In Papua New Guinea it is called "tok-pisin". It originated from English words and Melanesian grammar among recruited farm laborers from different tribes on the plantation who needed to communicate with each other. The English called this language “pidgin English” (from the English pigeon - “dove”); the pronunciation of the Papuans and Melanesians reminded them of the cooing of doves. Very quickly, the language spread, reaching the most remote mountain villages: it was brought by men who returned from work or itinerant traders. Almost all the words in it are English. Although the territory of Papua was long owned by the Germans, only two words remained from their language (one of them is “pasmalauf” - “shut up”).

If in English “you” is “yu”, and “me” is “mi” (in Tok Pisin it means “I”), then the combination “yu-mi” (“you-me”) gives the pronoun “we ". "Kam" - "come", "kam - kam" - "came"; "bow" is "to look", and "bow-bow-bow" is "to look for a very long time". The most common word is "fela" (from English, "guy"); so the planters addressed the farm laborers.

In essence, there is nothing strange in the Tok-Pisin language: French and Romanian, Spanish and Portuguese originated from the Latin brought by the Roman colonialists, which the conquered peoples changed in their own way! It is only necessary to develop the language in order to publish newspapers, speak on the radio, etc. Therefore, tok-pisin is taught in all schools in Papua New Guinea. And the main slogan of the country is “Yu-mi van-pela pipal!” (“We are one people!”).

It is interesting that the Papuans and Melanesians not only consider Tok Pisin their language, but they also know that there is another English, the real one. It is called "tok-ples-bilong-Sidney" - "Sydney language". After all, Sydney is the nearest large city inhabited by whites. Therefore, anyone who wants to get an education must know the "Sydney language".

The famous traveler Miklukho-Maclay observed the Papuans of New Guinea, who still did not know how to make fire, but who already knew the methods of preparing intoxicating drinks: they chewed the fruits, squeezed their juice into coconut shells, and after a few days received mash.

The crops grown in clearings by the Papuans of New Guinea are mostly fruit or tuber plants and, unlike cereals, they cannot be stored for long periods. Therefore, the community is always in danger of starvation.

There are some principles of relationships between people. Ethnographers who have spent years studying societies with primitive economies have repeatedly emphasized that people here are far from alien to romantic love. While the basic principles of family organization are not regulated by any rigid rules and allow for wide freedom of choice,

comparatively insignificant, in our opinion, details of a woman's behavior are under the strictest control of traditions and customs. Mostly it is about the prescriptions of a negative nature. Among the Papuans of New Guinea, a woman does not have the right to enter the men's house, which plays the role of a village club, participate in festive meals, or touch the stimulating drink keu. She is not only not allowed to be present when men play on musical instruments, but it is highly recommended to run headlong away at the sound of music alone. A wife cannot eat from the same dishes as her husband, and while eating, she, like children, usually gets what is worse. The duties of a woman include delivering vegetables and fruits from the garden, cleaning them, bringing firewood and water, making a fire. The husband is responsible for preparing food and distributing it among those present, and best pieces he takes for himself and offers to guests.

Life primitive man inextricably linked with hunting. Therefore, first of all magical operations refer to it. The so-called "fishing magic" has been preserved among modern backward peoples. The Papuans of New Guinea, when hunting a sea animal, place a small stinging insect in the tip of the harpoon so that its properties sharpen the harpoon.

In Papua New Guinea religious beliefs have always played and continue to play an important role. Animistic beliefs are deeply rooted in the minds of many people, as is the belief in the magical effect of sorcery, which serves as a means of regulating public relations. From the middle of the 19th century the activity of Christian missionaries has intensified, due to which at present about 3/5 of the population, at least nominally, are Protestants and about 1/3 are Catholics. Until the Second World War, the treatment and education of the Melanesian population was mainly carried out by missionaries. The largest Protestant denominations are the Lutheran and the United Church of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Over the past 20 years significant success achieved new evangelical communities, in particular, one of the largest Pentecostal organizations - the Assemblies of God.

The population of the country, according to ethnic and linguistic criteria, has always been divided into many groups, often very small in number. A separate group is formed by the Papuan tribes on the southern coast of New Guinea.

Papuans live in such inaccessible and dangerous places that their way of life has hardly changed over the past few hundred years.

Papuans believe in their pagan gods, but with the advent of the night appear and evil spirits which they are extremely afraid of. They faithfully follow the customs of their ancestors during hunting, holidays, war or weddings. For example, the Dani Dugum tribe believes that their ancient ancestors were birds, and the "bird" theme is present in their dances and exotic body coloring. Some traditions of the natives of Papua may seem shocking to us, for example: they mummify their leaders and talk to the mummy in the days of the most difficult trials; native sorcerers invoke and stop the rains with spells.

Most male Papuans (and almost all boys of 8-16 years old) walk constantly with a bow and arrows, as well as with a large knife (with its help they quickly cut out new arrows), and shoot at everything that moves (whether a bird or an animal ). The reaction of the Papuans is simply magnificent.
Many male Papuans go completely naked, but with straws tied in front.

Papua New Guinea, especially its center - one of the protected corners of the Earth, where human civilization has hardly penetrated. People there live in complete dependence on nature, worship their deities and revere the spirits of their ancestors. On the coast of the island of New Guinea now live quite civilized people who know the official - English - language. Missionaries worked with them for many years. However, in the center of the country there is something like a reservation - nomadic tribes and who still live in the Stone Age. They know every tree by name, they bury the dead on the branches, they have no idea what money or passports are.

They are surrounded by a mountainous country overgrown with impenetrable jungle, where, due to high humidity and unimaginable heat, life is unbearable for a European. No one there knows a word of English, and each tribe speaks its own language, of which there are about 900 in New Guinea. The tribes live very isolated from each other, communication between them is almost impossible, so their dialects have little in common, and people are each other friend simply do not understand. Typical locality, where the Papuan tribe lives: modest huts are covered with huge leaves, in the center there is something like a clearing where the whole tribe gathers, and around for many kilometers the jungle. The only weapons of these people are stone axes, spears, bows and arrows. But not with their help, they hope to protect themselves from evil spirits. That's why they have faith in gods and spirits. In the Papuan tribe, the mummy of the "leader" is usually kept. This is some outstanding ancestor - the most courageous, strong and intelligent, who fell in battle with the enemy. After his death, his body was treated with a special compound to avoid decay. The body of the leader is kept by the sorcerer.

It is in every tribe. This character is highly revered among the relatives. Its function is mainly to communicate with the ancestral spirits, appeasing them and asking for advice. The sorcerers usually go to people who are weak and unsuitable for a constant battle for survival - in a word, old people. By witchcraft they make their living. WHITES-DEVISIONS? The first white man who came to this exotic continent was the Russian traveler Miklukho-Maclay. Having landed on the coast of New Guinea in September 1871, he, being an absolutely peaceful person, decided not to take weapons ashore, he took only gifts and a notebook, which he never parted with.
The locals met the stranger quite aggressively: they shot arrows in his direction, shouted intimidatingly, brandished spears ... But Miklukho-Maclay did not react to these attacks in any way. On the contrary, with the most imperturbable look, he sat down on the grass, defiantly took off his shoes and lay down to take a nap. By an effort of will, the traveler forced himself to sleep (or only pretended to). And when he woke up, he saw that the Papuans were sitting peacefully next to him and were looking at the foreign guest with all their eyes. The savages reasoned thus: if a pale-faced man is not afraid of death, then he is immortal. That's what they decided on. For several months the traveler lived in a tribe of savages. All this time, the natives worshiped him and revered him as a god. They knew that if desired, the mysterious guest could command the forces of nature. How is it?

Yes, just once Miklukho-Maclay, who was called only Tamo-rus - “Russian man”, or Karaan-tamo - “man from the moon”, showed the Papuans such a trick: he poured water into a plate with alcohol and set it on fire. gullible locals believed that a foreigner was able to set fire to the sea or stop the rain. However, the Papuans are generally gullible. For example, they are firmly convinced that the dead go to their country and return white, bringing with them many useful items and food. This belief lives in all Papuan tribes (despite the fact that they hardly communicate with each other), even in those where they have never seen a white man. FUNERAL RITE The Papuans know three causes of death: from old age, from war and from witchcraft - if the death occurred for some unknown reason. If a person died a natural death, he will be honorably buried. All funeral ceremonies are aimed at appeasing the spirits that receive the soul of the deceased. Here is a typical example of such a ritual. Close relatives of the deceased go to the stream to perform bisi as a sign of mourning - smearing yellow clay on the head and other parts of the body. The men at this time are preparing a funeral pyre in the center of the village. Not far from the fire, a place is being prepared where the deceased will rest before cremation.

Shells and sacred stones of vus are placed here - the abode of some mystical power. Touching these living stones is strictly punished by the laws of the tribe. On top of the stones should lie a long braided strip, decorated with pebbles, which acts as a bridge between the world of the living and the world of the dead. The deceased is placed on sacred stones, smeared pork fat and clay, sprinkled with bird feathers. Funeral songs then begin to be sung over him, recounting the outstanding services of the deceased. And finally, the body is burned at the stake so that the human spirit does not return from the underworld. TO THE DEAD IN BATTLE - GLORY! If a man died in battle, his body is roasted at the stake and honorably eaten with rituals appropriate to the occasion, so that his strength and courage pass to other men. Three days after this, the phalanges of the fingers are cut off to the wife of the deceased as a sign of mourning. This custom is connected with another ancient Papuan legend. One man mistreated his wife. She died and ended up in the next world. But her husband yearned for her, could not live alone. He went for his wife to another world, approached the main spirit and began to beg to return his beloved to the world of the living. The spirit set a condition: the wife will return, but only if he promises to treat her with care and kindness. The man, of course, was delighted and promised everything at once.

The wife returned to him. But one day her husband forgot himself and again forced her to work hard. When he caught himself and remembered this promise, it was already too late: his wife fell apart before his eyes. Her husband only had a phalanx of her finger left. The tribe got angry and expelled him, because he took away their immortality - the opportunity to return from the other world, like his wife. However, in reality, for some reason, the wife cuts off the phalanx of her finger as a sign of the last gift to her deceased husband. The father of the deceased performs the rite of nasuk - he cuts off the upper part of his ear with a wooden knife and then covers the bleeding wound with clay. This ceremony is quite long and painful. After funeral rite Papuans revere and cajole the spirit of their ancestors. For if his soul is not appeased, the ancestor will not leave the village, but will live there and harm. The spirit of the ancestor is fed for some time, as if alive, and even try to give him sexual pleasure. For example, a clay figurine of a tribal god is placed on a stone with a hole, symbolizing a woman. The underworld in the view of the Papuans is some paradise where there is a lot of food, especially meat.

DEATH WITH A SMILE ON THE LIPS In Papua New Guinea, people believe that the head is the seat of the spiritual and physical strength person. Therefore, when fighting with enemies, the Papuans first of all seek to take possession of this part of the body. Cannibalism for the Papuans is not at all the desire to eat tasty food, but rather magical rite, during which cannibals gain the intelligence and strength of the one they eat. Let us apply this custom not only to enemies, but also to friends, and even relatives who heroically fell in battle. Especially "productive" in this sense is the process of eating the brain. By the way, it is with this rite that doctors associate the disease kuru, which is very common among cannibals. Kuru is another name for mad cow disease, which can be contracted by eating the unroasted brains of animals (or, in this case, humans). This insidious disease was first recorded in 1950 in New Guinea, in a tribe where the brain of dead relatives was considered a delicacy. The disease begins with pain in the joints and head, gradually progressing, leads to loss of coordination, trembling in the arms and legs and, oddly enough, bouts of uncontrollable laughter. The disease develops long years sometimes the incubation period is 35 years. But the worst thing is that the victims of the disease die with a frozen smile on their lips. Sergey BORODIN

Embark on an extreme, expensive and dangerous journey.

If you wish, you will be met by a theater in which you will become a real target for cannibals. Live game, for a while, will turn into reality

New Guinea is one of the most wild, isolated and untouched places on the planet, where hundreds of tribes speak hundreds of languages, do not use mobile phones and electricity, continuing to live according to the laws of the Stone Age.

And all because there are still no roads in the Indonesian province of Papua. The role of buses and minibuses is performed by airplanes.

Long and dangerous way to the tribe of cannibals. Flight.

Wamena Airport looks like this: the check-in area is represented by a fence made of chain-link mesh covered with slate.

Instead of signs, there are inscriptions on the fences, the data on passengers is entered not into a computer, but into a notebook.

The floor is earth, so forget about duty free. The airport where naked Papuans walk is the only one in the legendary Baliem Valley.

The town of Wamena can be called the center of Papuan tourism. If a wealthy foreigner wants to get almost into stone Age He flies right here.

Despite the fact that passengers go through “control” and a metal detector before boarding, you can easily bring a gas canister, pistol, knife or other weapon on board the aircraft, which, by the way, can be bought right at the airport.

But, the worst thing about Papuan flights is not the security control, but the old rattling planes, rotary-wing machines, which are hastily served almost with the help of the same stone axes.

Dilapidated airplanes are more reminiscent of old UAZs, Ikarus.

In small windows, you are accompanied by cockroaches dried under glass all the way, the interior of the side is worn to the limit, not to mention what happens to the mechanics themselves.

Annually great amount of these aircraft crashes, which is not at all surprising in such a technical condition. Scary!

During the flight, you will be lucky enough to see endless mountain ranges covered with dense rainforest, separated only by rivers with muddy water, color of orange clay.

Hundreds of thousands of hectares of wild forests and impenetrable jungles. It is hard to believe, but from this porthole it is clear that there are still places on earth that a person did not have time to spoil and turn into a cluster of computer and construction technologies. The plane lands in the small town of Dekai, lost in the jungle, in the middle of the island of New Guinea.

This is the last point of civilization on the way to Karavay. Then only boats, and from now on you no longer live in hotels and do not wash in the shower.

Now we leave electricity, mobile communications, comfort and balance behind, ahead of us are waiting for incredible adventure in the lair of the descendants of cannibals.

Part 2 – Canoe trip

On a rented truck, along a broken dirt road, you get to the Braza River - the only transport artery in these places.

It is from this place that the most expensive, dangerous, unpredictable and amazing part of the trip to Indonesia starts.

Dangerous canoes with careless movement can simply roll over - your things will sink, and bloodthirsty alligators will appear around.

From the fishing village where the road ends, it takes about two days to sail to the wild tribes than to fly by plane from Russia to America or Australia.

Most importantly, sit low on the wooden floor of such a boat. If you move slightly to the side and break the center of gravity, the boat will capsize and then you will have to fight for your life. Around the solid jungle, where no human foot has set foot.

Cannibal seekers have long been attracted to such places, but not everyone returns from expeditions in good health.

The tempting mystery of these places attracted Michael Rockefeller, America's richest heir of his time, great-grandson of the planet's first dollar billionaire, John Rockefeller. He explored the local tribes, collected artifacts, and it was here that he went missing.

Ironically, a collector of human skulls now graces someone's collection.

Boat fuel is extremely expensive here, because it is a long journey - the price for 1 liter reaches 5 dollars, and a canoe trip costs thousands of dollars.

The scorching sun and sultry heat reach their climax and exhaust tourists to no end.

Toward evening, it is necessary to leave the canoe and spend the night on the shore.

Lying on the ground, it is deadly here - snakes, scorpions, scalapendras, here a person has many enemies. You can spend the night in the fishermen's hut, where they take shelter from the rain.

The structure is built on piles one and a half meters from the ground. It is necessary to kindle a fire in order to prevent the penetration of various creeping and insects, and also to treat the body from malarial mosquitoes. Deadly scalapendras fall right on your head and you need to be extremely careful.

If you have developed the habit of brushing your teeth, save boiled water with you and stay away from the river. Provide a full-fledged first-aid kit for these places, which can save your life at the right time.

First acquaintance with Karavay

The second day in the canoe will be somewhat more difficult - the movement will continue against the current of the Siren River.

Gasoline is running out at a tremendous rate. Time is lost - the same landscape does not change. After passing through the rapids, on which you may have to push the boat against the current, the first settlement, the so-called modern loaves, appears.

Friendly aboriginals in repper attire will be greeted with a rainbow and escorted to their huts, trying to show themselves with better side and earn "balls" in the hope of getting a job from wealthy tourists, who are quite rare here.

In the late 90s, the Indonesian government decided that cannibals had no place in the country, and decided to "cultivate" the savages and teach them to eat rice, and not their own kind. Even in the most remote areas, villages were built, which can be reached from more civilized places for several days by boat.

There is no electricity and mobile communications, but there are houses on stilts. The village of Mabul has only one street and 40 identical houses.

About 300 people live here, they are mostly young people who have already left the forest, but the parents of most of them still live in the jungle a few days walk, on the tops of trees.

In built wooden houses there is absolutely no furniture, and the Papuans sleep on the floor, which is more like a sieve. Men are allowed to have several wives, more precisely an unlimited number.

The main condition is that the head of the family be able to feed each of them and the children.

intimacy happens to all the wives in turn and you can’t leave one of them without male attention otherwise she will be offended. The 75-year-old chief, who has 5 wives, pleases each of them every night without taking any stimulant drugs, but only "sweet potatoes".

Since there is nothing to do here, there are many children in families.

The whole tribe is going to look at white tourists - after all, you can see "white savages" here no more than a few times a year.

Men come hoping to get a job, women out of curiosity, and children fight in hysterics and great fright, equating white people with alien dangerous creatures. The high cost of $ 10,000 and mortal danger - do not leave a chance to visit such places for a wide category of the population.

Kateka - cover for manhood it is not used here (as in most New Guinean tribes). This accessory arouses genuine interest in men, while their relatives calmly fly naked in airplanes with only one kateka.

Those loaves who were lucky enough to work in the city and buy a mobile phone are considered the coolest.

Despite the lack of electricity, Cell phones(which are used only as a player) with music are charged as follows. Everyone throws in money and refuels the only generator in the village with gasoline, simultaneously connecting chargers to it, and thus returning them to working condition.

Natives of the forest try not to take risks and not meddle in the outback, claiming that there are real cannibals left there, but today they themselves eat a traditional dish - rice with fish or river shrimp. Here they do not brush their teeth, they wash themselves once a month and do not even use mirrors, moreover, they are afraid of them.

Path to cannibals

There is no place on earth more humid and suffocatingly hot than the Jungle of New Guinea. During the rainy season, it pours here every day, while the air temperature is about 40 degrees.

A day of travel, and the first Karavay skyscrapers will appear before you - houses at a height of 25-30 meters.

Many modern loaves have moved from 30 meters to 10 meters, thus preserving the traditions of their ancestors and somewhat mitigating the danger of staying at a rapid height. The first ones you see will be completely naked girls and women from the smallest to the oldest.

So, you need to get acquainted with the owners, and agree on an overnight stay. The only way up is a slippery log with cut steps. The ladder is designed for wiry Papuans, whose weight rarely exceeds 40-50 kg. After long conversations, acquaintances and the promise of a pleasant reward for staying and hospitality, the leader of the tribe agrees to accommodate you in his house. Don't forget to grab some delicious food and necessary items for thanksgiving to the hosts.

The best gift for adults and children will be cigarettes and tobacco. Yes, yes, that's right - everyone smokes here, including women and younger generation. Tobacco, in this place, is more expensive than any currency and jewelry. It is not worth its weight in gold, but in all diamonds. If you want to win over a cannibal, ask for a visit, pay off or ask for something - treat him with tobacco.

Children can bring a package of colored pencils and sheets of paper - they have never known anything like this in their lives and will be incredibly happy with such an amazing purchase. But, the most incredible and shocking gift is a mirror, which they fear and turn away.

There are only a few hundred loaves left on the planet living in the forest on trees. They have no such thing as age. Time is divided exclusively into: morning, afternoon and evening. There is no winter, spring, summer or autumn here. Most of them do not even imagine that there is another life, countries and peoples outside the forest. They have their own life, laws and problems - the main thing is to tie a pig for the night so that it does not fall to the ground and the neighbors do not eat it.

Instead of the usual cutlery, loaves use animal bones. For example, a spoon was made from a cassowary bone. According to the inhabitants of the settlement themselves, they no longer eat dogs and people, and over the past ten years they have changed a lot.

There are two rooms in the house of loaves - men and women live separately, and a woman does not have the right to cross the threshold of male territory. Intimacy and conception of children takes place in the forest. But, it is not at all clear how: manhood is so small that it causes hysterical laughter from tourists and incredible thoughts on how it is possible to make a child THIS. Microscopic dimensions are easily hidden behind a small leaf, with which it is customary to wrap your organ or open it at all, anyway, there is nothing to look at, and it is hardly possible to see something even with a strong desire.

Every morning, little piglets and a dog are taken for a walk to walk and feed.

The women, meanwhile, are weaving skirts out of grass. Breakfast is cooked in a small frying pan - cakes from the core of the sago tree. It tastes like dry dry bread. If you bring buckwheat with you, cook it and treat the loaves - they will be incredibly happy and will eat everything, to the last grain - saying that this is the most tasty dish that they have eaten in their lives.

Today, the word cannibal sounds almost like a curse - no one wants to admit that his ancestors, or even worse, he himself, ate human meat. However, by chance they uttered that of all the parts human body, the most delicious - ankles.

The arrival of the missionaries changed a lot, and now the daily diet is worms and sago cakes. The loaves themselves do not exclude that if you go further, deep into the forest, you can meet those tribes that today do not disdain human flesh.

How to get to wild tribes?

Flights from Russia to Papua New Guinea are not direct. There is a high probability that you will have to fly through Sydney, and then get on domestic flights. Go to the website and check the possibility of a direct flight to Papua. If, nevertheless, there is a need for a flight through Australia - Sydney, in this case, a flight from Moscow will cost approximately 44,784 RUB and you will spend more than a day on the way. If you plan to fly as a child, be prepared to pay from 80,591 RUB. Further, the path lies through local airlines, a flight that is impossible to foresee, especially in the province of Papua itself. Don't forget that you need an Australian transit visa to travel through Australia. Weight limit for economy class tickets hand luggage- no more than 10 kg, for upper classes the limit was increased by 5 kg with each increase level, that is, the maximum weight of hand luggage is 30 kg.

According to the British anthropologist Jeremy Westcott, who spent three years among the natives of Guinea, the people of the Oolug tribe. This greatly impressed the scientist, and in his book he wrote that the oolugs froze several times a day, falling into a kind of trance, and stood motionless with a glassy look.

At these moments, according to them, they moved to another world, the Land of Shadows, where monsters live and eternal darkness reigns. The Oolugs say that in the world they call the Land of Shadows, other physical laws apply - there the Oolugs can jump to great heights. Another world is inhabited by monsters: winged gorillas, huge ants that look like dogs - cyaths.

In the normal world, ooloogs are very peaceful. But in the Land of Shadows, they constantly have to fight enemies that look like Neanderthals.

Dr. Wescott told how, right before his eyes, people frozen in a trance suddenly fell dead or disappeared altogether. The tribesmen explained that the dead were killed by enemies in another world, and the missing were victims of the cyaths. Wounds could suddenly appear on the bodies of oolugs, and sometimes strange knives with crystals turned out to be in their hands purple in the handle. The doctor handed over one of these crystals for examination in London. The experts were unanimous in their conclusions: the material from which the crystals are made does not exist on Earth.

Araanu - transmigration of souls

An American expedition of scientists found another mystery in the Guinean jungle. This is one of the warriors named Araanu. He was born on November 22, 1963 at the time of the death of President John F. Kennedy after an assassination attempt. The warrior said that past life lived in America and participated in the government of the country.

Having no connection with the outside world, the savage spoke about the smallest details of Kennedy's life. He knew more than historians who have spent their entire lives studying and describing the president's biography. The Savage knew details, some of which were unknown even to family members.

Dr. Bernard Hawk, a member of the expedition, recalls that he spent two months studying the savage Araana. The doctor claims to have subjected the savage to the most modern methods known to psychiatry. Not once could he catch the savage in a lie. Then the doctor gathered a group of scientists, consisting of specialists different areas science, to survey Araanu.

The leader of the group, Dr. Demolin, after the examination, stated that he had always been skeptical about the question of, but the person they examined led him to believe in such a relocation.

Without the use of any hypnotic influence, Araanu described in detail his previous life, the life of President Kennedy, gave detailed description home where the president spent his childhood. A group of scientists was shocked and unanimously declared that after everything they had seen and heard, they could not help but believe in the reincarnation of the president.

The Yali are the wildest and most dangerous cannibal tribe of the 21st century, numbering over 20,000. In their opinion, cannibalism is a common thing and there is nothing special about it, eating the enemy is a virtue for them, and not the most cruel way of reprisal. Their leader says that this is the same as a fish eats a fish, the one who is stronger wins. For yali, this is to some extent a ritual, during which the power of the enemy he eats passes to the winner.

The government of New Guinea is trying to fight the inhuman addictions of its wild citizens. Yes, and their adoption of Christianity influenced their psychological perception - the number of cannibal feasts significantly decreased.
The most experienced warriors remember cooking recipes from enemies. With imperturbable calmness, one can even say with pleasure, they say that the buttocks of the enemy are the most delicious part of a person, for them this is a true delicacy!
Even now, the inhabitants of Yali believe that pieces of human flesh enrich them spiritually, eating the victim with the pronunciation of the name of the enemy gives special strength. Therefore, visiting the most creepy place planets, it is better not to pronounce your name to the savages, so as not to provoke them into the ritual of your eating.

AT recent times The Yali tribe believes in the existence of the savior of all mankind - Christ, therefore they do not eat people with white skin. The reason for this is also that White color associated in the inhabitants with the color of death. However, recently there was an incident - in Irian Jaya, as a result of strange events, a Japanese correspondent disappeared. Probably, they do not consider people with yellow and black skin to be servants of an old woman with a scythe.
Since the time of colonization, the life of the tribe has not changed much, as well as the attire of these jet-black citizens of New Guinea. Yali women are almost completely naked, their daytime attire consists only of a skirt with vegetable fibers. Men, in turn, go naked, covering their reproductive organ with a case (halim), which is made from a dried bottle gourd. According to them, the process of making clothes for men requires great skills.

As the pumpkin grows, a weight in the form of a stone is tied to it, which is strengthened with threads of vines to give an interesting shape. At the final stage of cooking, the pumpkin is decorated with feathers and shells. It is worth noting that Halim also serves as a "purse" in which men store roots and tobacco. The inhabitants of the tribe also love decorations made of shells and beads. But the perception of beauty in them is peculiar. For example, they knock out the front two teeth of local beauties in order to make them even more attractive.
The noble, beloved and only occupation of men is hunting. And yet in the villages of the tribe you can find livestock - chickens, pigs and opossums, which are watched by women. It also happens that several clans hold large-scale meals at once, where everyone has his own place and is taken into account. social status every savage in terms of food distribution. Alcoholic drinks they do not take, but they use the bright red flesh of the batel nut - for them it is a local drug, so tourists can often see them with a red mouth and blurred eyes ...

During the period joint meals clans exchange gifts. Although the Yalis cannot be called very hospitable people, they will accept gifts from guests with great pleasure. In a special way, they appreciate bright shirts and shorts. The peculiarity is that they put shorts on their heads, and use a shirt as a skirt. This is due to the fact that they do not contain soap, the result of which will be that unwashed clothes can cause skin diseases over time.
Even though the Yalis have officially stopped feuding with neighboring tribes and eating victims, only the most "frostbitten" adventurers can go to these inhuman parts of the world. According to the stories of this area, savages still sometimes allow themselves to carry out barbaric acts of eating the flesh of enemies. But to justify their actions, they invent different stories about the fact that the victim either drowned or crashed from a cliff.

The government of New Guinea has developed a powerful program for bodybuilding and raising the standard of living of the inhabitants of the island, including this tribe. The plan is for the hill tribes to move into the valley, with officials promising the settlers will be given an ample supply of rice and building materials and free TV in every house.
The citizens of the valley were forced to wear Western clothing in government buildings and schools. The government has even taken measures such as declaring the territory of the savages a national park where hunting is prohibited. Naturally, the Yalis began to oppose the resettlement, since out of the first 300 people, 18 died and this was in the very first month (from malaria).
Even more disappointing to the surviving settlers was what they saw - they were given barren land, rotten houses. As a result, the government's strategy collapsed with the collapse and the settlers returned back to their beloved mountainous regions, where they still live, rejoicing in the "protection of the spirits of their ancestors."

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