Zuwara
Originally posted on July 23, 2010
Warning: Some people might find the following images disturbing.
Note: Cultural relativism is "understanding the ways of other cultures and not judging these practices according to one's own cultural ways." (oregonstate.edu)
The Zuwara, similar to the Sufi sects' mainstream Moulid fests, is held to ask God to bless a people and a land with the intervention of the spirit of a local holy man. Sacrifice is part of every ancient tradition -- be it coconut, chicken, the symbolic body and blood of a savior, or actual meat -- in order to gather, meet, eat and pray together.
Warning: Some people might find the following images disturbing.
Note: Cultural relativism is "understanding the ways of other cultures and not judging these practices according to one's own cultural ways." (oregonstate.edu)
The Zuwara, similar to the Sufi sects' mainstream Moulid fests, is held to ask God to bless a people and a land with the intervention of the spirit of a local holy man. Sacrifice is part of every ancient tradition -- be it coconut, chicken, the symbolic body and blood of a savior, or actual meat -- in order to gather, meet, eat and pray together.
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