Still lived
The heart feast
Omitima
One of four meat feasts recorded beside the intestine, lung, and hump feasts. When a man kills an ox, the heart feast is how he honours a parallel cousin of his clan.
- Who
- Parallel cousins of the same clan
- When
- After an ox is slaughtered
- Where
- Homestead
- Why
- It keeps the tie between parallel cousins alive.
Why this is marked “still lived”:
“This feast is enjoyed by several Aawambo even today.”
Summarised from Professor Petrus Angula Mbenzi’s Oshiwambo rituals and ceremonies.
This is a doorway, not the full account. The complete description stays with Professor Petrus Angula Mbenzi until he releases it. Read it in his books.