Status not stated
The meeting fire
Oshinyanga / oshoto / olupale
At least three meeting places. The main fire sits opposite the senior wife’s room, kept burning for protection and for the tie to the ancestors. Brides and grooms are blessed here. Soldiers have their own place, oshoto shiita.
- Who
- Household, guests, herders
- When
- Daily, and before journeys or marriage
- Where
- Inside the palisade
- Why
- Story, play, and blessing share one fire.
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 The Oshiwambo Traditional Homestead.
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.