Cultural Anthropology for Missions
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COMPARITIVE STUDY OF KUKU AND HEBREW CULTURES<br />
M. M. NINAN<br />
preliminary preparations. But soon they heard people crying and<br />
wailing and singing and dancing. They have never heard this<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e, because KuJubes were burying a corps and they had<br />
their burial place near the anthill. The whole ceremony looked so<br />
wonderful to the Kakwas. They stopped the people .and asked<br />
whether they could buy the corpse so that they too can cry, sing<br />
and dance. After a long bargain time KuJubos agreed at a big<br />
price. The Kakwas carried the corpse to their village with crying<br />
and singing and dancing and the buried the corpse according to<br />
the condition of the purchase. They brought beer, killed a sheep<br />
and had a great feast. When they were drunk they fell into evil<br />
ways. When the Abure' returned, he was told of the story. That<br />
night Ngelesso appeared to him and said 'that his people<br />
desecrated the land with a corpse. So from then on they may<br />
bury their dead <strong>for</strong> all time. Some days later a man died. placed<br />
him on the gumere as be<strong>for</strong>e. But he simply decayed and was<br />
rotten. Thus death entered the Kakwa tribe.<br />
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