Blood drinking in Somali culture

[Cabdi]

I'm guessing it's an Ogaden thing

They've got to explain how giving cows an oral helps them produce milk

 

[Grant]

Wait, how is this possible? The olive tree isn't native to Sub-saharan Africa.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-015-9181-z

. The Somali wagar tree is the African olive (Olea europaea sp. africana) (Miskell 2000 on IUCN; USDA). The wild olive is endemic to Somalia, growing on mountain slopes and in woodlands, often near water.

The wagar belonging to Sada Mire's family.

 

[James Dahl]

Wait, how is this possible? The olive tree isn't native to Sub-saharan Africa.

The African Olive is different from the edible olive tree from the mediterranean, in Somali it's called the Wagar.

Here's a whole article on this topic from Sada Mire
https://www.researchgate.net/figure...Daallo-Mountains-Sanaag-region_fig3_276095770

 

[Keeysan]

I was going to say this and you beat me to it, the Nilotes learned this from Cushitic people not the other way around, and northern Nilotic people who haven't been influenced by Cushitic people don't practice it.

It's not barbaric at all it's actually pretty smart. With blood and milk you can get most of the benefits you would get from eating your livestock but you don't kill them, so you still have your livestock afterwards.

Some of the "Nilotic" tribes are probably originally Cushitic tribes that adopted Nilotic languages. There's good evidence that the Kikuyu are originally a Cushitic tribe that have adopted various Nilotic and Bantu influences.

The original Cushitic pastoral people:

• Worshipped Waaq the sky god, the place of worship under a wagar tree (african olive tree). The wagar tree connected heaven and earth.
• Practiced cattle pastoralism (later some adopted camel pastoralism) and lived off blood and milk, avoiding slaughtering their animals as much as possible.
• Society was egalitarian with age sets and age grades determining the social role and social standing in the community along with how the community was organized and led.
• Practiced circumcision upon graduation into the age set allowing marriage.
• Spoke a Cushitic language
• Have two moieties, one junior, one senior

Your 3rd paragraph makes sense, but hold up on that 4th line.
Also, are you oromo. Do you know of any groups that worshipped Isis, like us and the Beja?

 

[Samaalic Era]

Your 3rd paragraph makes sense, but hold up on that 4th line.
Also, are you oromo. Do you know of any groups that worshipped Isis, like us and the Beja?

Somalis never worshipped Isis. Also, not all Somalis worshipped Waaq

 

[Keeysan]

Somalis never worshipped Isis. Also, not all Somalis worshipped Waaq

Which other deities were worshipped.
Also, waaq isn’t an all cushite thing. Very largely a East Cushitic practice. South cushites here worshipped other bodies then for us it was Isis.

 

[Samaalic Era]

Which other deities were worshipped.
Also, waaq isn’t an all cushite thing. Very largely a East Cushitic practice. South cushites here worshipped other bodies then for us it was Isis.

Eebe
Waaq
Isis and all other name tht refer to god is same god tht send messeng to people worship him alone 1 god

Eebe is God in Somali while Waaq is a specific God. Also the Egyptian Sun god Raa was worshipped but not by everyone. The Monotheists only worshipped Eebe and even in the Qur'an Somali Translation, It uses Eebe rather than Alle

 

[Keeysan]

Eebe
Waaq
Isis and all other name tht refer to god is same god tht send messeng to people worship him alone 1 god

Yes it was one god but it’s also important to note how these differences came up. Like how my people and Beja worship Isis despite the groups closer to us worshipping Waaq.

Eebe is God in Somali while Waaq is a specific God. Also the Egyptian Sun god Raa was worshipped but not by everyone. The Monotheists only worshipped Eebe and even in the Qur'an Somali Translation, It uses Eebe rather than Alle

So Eebe just means god, as a noun? I’m wondering if there’re any Sudanese people that worshipped Ra so we can get a good comparison

 

[Samaalic Era]

Yes it was one god but it’s also important to note how these differences came up. Like how my people and Beja worship Isis despite the groups closer to us worshipping Waaq.

So Eebe just means god, as a noun? I’m wondering if there’re any Sudanese people that worshipped Ra so we can get a good comparison

 

[Suldaanka]

View attachment 66074

Are you in Africa or eastern europe. Sxb. Sacada baan arkay

 

[Samaalic Era]

Are you in Africa or eastern europe. Sxb. Sacada baan arkay

UK

 

[Suldaanka]

UK

Aun.

 

[Samaalic Era]

Aun.

The struggle is real here

 

[Suldaanka]

The struggle is real here

Waan ka xuumahay. O cant help you. Sxb.

 

[Yeeyi]

Are you in Africa or eastern europe. Sxb. Sacada baan arkay

UK

Aun.

Not even a helping hand, just straight to the funeral

 

[Nuur Iidaan]

I remember watching a documentary with my pops and it was about these people. I found it to be peculiar, still don't know as to why they do it.

I remember the way they closed the open cut was by pinching the skin together and then picking up the dirt/sand and applying it to the area.

 

[Samaalic Era]

I remember watching a documentary with my pops and it was about these people. I found it to be peculiar, still don't know as to why they do it.

I remember the way they closed the open cut was by pinching the skin together and then picking up the dirt/sand and applying it to the area.

You should of put a warning about the beginning of the vid sxb

I have to go pray Salaada Isha earlier just to recover

 

[Nuur Iidaan]

You should of put a warning about the beginning of the vid sxb

I have to go pray Salaada Isha earlier just to recover

Sorry saaxiib, I assumed people already knew about how the blood was let out.

I feel sorry for the lo' though, you could see he was in pain, the miskeen.

 

[aydurus abdi]

I found this interesting piece there are Somalis that drink blood like the Maasai

View attachment 65178

Spoiler

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

most likely degodia or garre who border the borana(galla) who themselves border samburu (a subgroup of maasai). makes sense.

 

[Samaalic Era]

most likely degodia or garre who border the borana(galla) who themselves border samburu (a subgroup of maasai). makes sense.

Those Somalis got it from the Samburu. The rendile apostated and adopted some of their cultural practises which is not known to most