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Omugolo, the tree of return
Omugolo
Terminalia sericea. The name comes from gooloka, to return. Travellers inhale its smoke so they come home. Twigs bless a new house. Bark rings a newborn. Hunters, herders, and the sick all meet this tree.
- Who
- Household, travellers, healers
- When
- Before a journey, at a birth, in illness
- Where
- Reception area, new house, forest
- Why
- Return, luck, and recovery are one idea.
The author’s paper does not say whether this is still practised today, so no status is shown.
Summarised from Professor Petrus Angula Mbenzi’s Aawambo Ethnobotany.
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.