PROPAGATING MAN 



THE next category is that connected with the place 

 where the action is done. As a season it is the 

 beginning of the tornado season, when the first rains 

 fall upon or meet the earth. Earth and water are 

 thus, if we may say so, married. Seed is put into the 

 ground, and so seed and earth meet. 



The winds meet and form whirlwinds Kimbongela. 

 The place of junction of roads is called Evambo. 

 Where the winds cross and the roads join is a place in 

 the centre of a kingdom or a town that the Bavili call 

 Mavamba. In some towns this is marked by a four- 

 sided or faced juju or fetish. 



As we are here dealing with man, marriage is the 

 meeting-place of the male and female. 



The word in the Mu Mi class that I think repre- 

 sents the idea of doer in this category is ndia the 

 womb. The instrument here is the phallus kata. 



The place where the action is done is marriage 

 Likwela, when the fruitful woman Exina receives the 

 seed of man. The Li or E Ma class. 



Luniatu sickness is the sign of coming pregnancy, 

 the sign of the manner in which the act of propaga- 

 ion proceeds. This is the Lu Tu class. 



Kuyimita pregnancy is the action. 



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