ANIMISTIC PLANTING MAN 35 



the house of circumcision Lilongo search for mates. 

 This is the season of marriage Likwela, vagina Likota 

 and scrotum Likata, and the smell that the first rains 

 cause the earth to give forth, a smell of a slightly 

 musky odour, is said to suggest (Liambu suggestion) 

 thoughts of marriage to virgins and animals that have 

 not yet given birth to young Esundi\ gentleness 

 Malembe gives way to anger and passion Likaxi and 

 Likudi, and the virgin's breasts Libeni are developing 

 and she is ready to become a breeding animal Lixina. 

 Men having married make a fence of papyrus Liwu 

 around their wives' huts. This is a time of imagina- 

 tion when men's thoughts are lightly turned to love 

 and marriage. They marry and think of offspring. 

 But it is not only a season of marriage, but also one of 

 sowing and planting ; the woman takes care of her 

 hen's eggs, and her thoughts are carried to the time 

 when these eggs Liaxi will become chickens. She 

 plants her seed Linsansa and thinks of the harvest she 

 will reap from her fields Lima and farm Liyangala, 

 such as corn Lisa, pumpkin Lilenge, sweet potato 

 Livuta, ground nuts Liakila, beans Limbandi, cassava 

 Edoko, the plantain Dinkongo. All these thoughts of 

 the good time coming are a source of gladness and joy 

 Liyanji. Man still hunts, but round about his farm 

 and with dogs " Eveta" The earth produces the 

 edible fungi Libalantoto and Etumbudia, and dead fish 

 Etidi float down the rivers. This they cook in pots 

 placed on three stones Makukwa. Sheep Limeme are 

 now kept, and in this (E, Li, Di, plural Ma) class we 

 have the following animals, etc., in addition to the 



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