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Similar loops are found on some Chokwe mukuku headpieces worn during the mukanda initiation ceremony, as well as the Yaka initiation mask, where the long horns are tied up to encircle the face, evoking the cosmological symbols of the rainbow-python and the moon (Bourgeois 1984:134). Our hero, Mason LaVerle, eats a glorious leafy diet and leads something of an Edenic life in other ways, too: young apostles are allowed one sexual experience before marriage, in an initiation ceremony called "the Frolic. Through the initiation ceremony, the seed of enlightenment in each person's mind is nourished by the dynamic process of visualizing and contemplating a mandala. |
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