CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

19 OCTOBER 1932
whom I have to deal, talks too, but in a very low voice, hardly audible,
and he shall not get up. If a man speaks too loudly, somebody comes with
a whip. He may not speak loudly, because that would show emotion, and
as soon as there is emotion, there is danger of fighting and killing.
Therefore no weapons are allowed. Also, when the palaver ends one
must say shauri kisha, meaning, “Now the palaver is finished.”
I once got up before I had said that, and my headman came quite
excitedly to me and said, “Now, don’t get up!” And then I said shauri
kisha, and everything was all right. If I said a mantra, I could go. I must
say that the whole magic circle is now dissolved, and then I can go without
rousing the suspicion that somebody is offended or in a wild mood.
Otherwise it is dangerous, then there might be anything, perhaps murder,
for one is getting up obviously because one is crazy. It sometimes
happens that they get so excited in their dances that they begin to kill.
For instance, those two cousins Sarasin, who made the exploration in
Celebes, were almost killed by men who were really very friendly with
them. 15 They were showing them the war dances, and they got so much
in the mood of war, so frenzied, that they threw their spears at them. It
was sheer luck that they escaped.
You see, anvhata is still very feeble, and maõipÖra psychology is quite
close to us. We still have to be polite to people to avoid the explosions of
maõipÖra.
15 Paul and Fritz Sarasin published an account of their anthropological expeditions in
Reisen in Celebes ausgeführt in den Jahren 1893–1896 und 1902–1903 (Travels in Celebes
taken in the years 1893–1896 and 1902–1903), 2 vols. (Wiesbaden, 1905).
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