Status not stated
Eating the new harvest
Oshipe
After winnowing, the household holds a thanksgiving for the harvest. The first tasting of the new mahangu is a ceremony, not a meal, and the ancestors are given their share first.
- Who
- Household and community
- When
- After winnowing the new crop
- Where
- Homestead
- Why
- No one eats the new food before the house has marked it.
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 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.