Everything
in the Bambuti world is focused on the forest. They consider the woods to be
their grand protector and provider and maintain that it is a divine place. The
Bambuti sometimes refer to the forest as “father" or "mother."
After
experiences such as the death of a famous person, mo-limo is noisily rejoiced
to wake the forest, in the hope that if evil things are occurring with its
children, it must be sleeping.
As
for many Bambuti ceremonies, the time it takes to finish a mo-limo is not rigidly
fixed; instead, it is arranged by the attitude of the group.
Food
is collected from each hut to feed the mo-limo, and at dusk, the ceremony is
followed by the men dancing and chanting surrounding a fire. Women and children
must remain in their huts with the doors closed.
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