Zambezi River God: The Nyami Nyami
The focus of today’s article stemmed from, as usual, our love for all things strange and mysterious. However, that was not the only driving force for this one. Being South Africans, we (the hosts of The Odd Topic Podcast) take great pleasure in finding topics that are fairly close to home.
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Death Rituals of the Yanomami Tribe
The Yanomami tribes are an indigenous tribe of about 35 000 people and make up about 200 – 250 villages. Yanomami believe that the spirit world is a fundamental part of life. Every creature, rock, tree and mountain has a spirit. Sometimes these are malevolent and attack the Yanomami and are believed to cause illness.
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Rites of Passage in the Huanglou Tribe
The village of Huangluo Yao, which resides on the Jinsha River banks, is a mountainous and remote place nearly unreachable until 2002 when the Chinese government decided to launch a ‘tourism reform’ program.
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42 Years of Isolation
In 1936, four of the lykov family members, Karp, his wife Akulina, and their two children, Savin(9), Natalia (2) took their possessions and seeds and retreated deep into the Siberian taiga. They built themselves a few simple dwelling places until, at last, they had settled in the area they stayed in for over 40 years.
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